Milton Academy

Massachusetts · 82 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

T. S. Eliot b. 1888	Robert F. Kennedy b. 1925	Richard Buckminster Fuller b. 1895
Ted Kennedy b. 1932	Jenny Slate b. 1982	James Taylor b. 1948
Deval Patrick b. 1956	JB Pritzker b. 1965	Elliot Richardson b. 1920
Robert E. Sherwood b. 1896	Rob Sheffield b. 1966	Matthew Pottinger b. 1973

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	22.0%	23
journalist	19.2%	13
singer	15.0%	5
author	12.8%	4
film producer	11.7%	6
film director	10.8%	5
screenwriter	9.7%	8
actor	8.0%	4
politician	7.3%	14
director	7.2%	4
novelist	6.3%	4
television producer	2.5%	3
university professor	2.2%	8
poet	2.2%	3
lawyer	1.6%	10

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Occupation	× the national rate	People
author	9.9×	4
director	3.8×	4
journalist	3.3×	13
novelist	3.1×	4
writer	2.8×	23
diplomat	2.8×	6
poet	2.7×	3
historian	2.6×	4
playwright	2.5×	3
film producer	2.5×	6
film director	2.0×	5
screenwriter	1.8×	8
university professor	1.7×	8
singer	1.5×	5

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	1.3%	3
University of Chicago	1.1%	3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Employer	× the national rate	People
University of Chicago	7.7×	3
Columbia University	5.2×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.5%	5
Presidential Medal of Freedom	0.4%	6
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	0.2%	4
Purple Heart	0.2%	4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this award as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Award	× the national rate	People
Presidential Medal of Freedom	4.6×	6
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.5×	5

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
United States representative	2.9%	4
United States senator	0.2%	3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this office as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Office	× the national rate	People
United States representative	2.2×	4
United States senator	1.5×	3

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	6.8%	4

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this sport as noted high-school alumni nationally.

Sport	× the national rate	People

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.