Massachusetts · 11 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.
The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.
| Eli Whitney b. 1765 | Samuel C. Crafts b. 1768 | David Henshaw b. 1791 |
| Ruth Henshaw Bascom b. 1772 | Elliott P. Joslin b. 1869 | Eli Whitney Blake b. 1795 |
| Thomas Hill b. 1818 | Ichabod Washburn b. 1798 | George Putnam, Sr. b. 1807 |
| Joseph Sprague b. 1783 | Samuel Stillman Greene b. 1810 |
| Occupation | % of its alumni | People |
|---|---|---|
| politician | 5 | |
| inventor | 3 |
| Occupation | × the national rate | People |
|---|---|---|
| inventor | 32.7× | 3 |
| politician | 2.5× | 5 |
Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.