Montgomery Bell Academy

Tennessee · 43 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

Bill Frist b. 1952	Richard Speight Jr. b. 1970	R.A. Dickey b. 1974
Jacob M. Dickinson b. 1851	Frank Maxwell Andrews b. 1884	Tom Schulman b. 1950
Charles Sawyers b. 1959	Grantland Rice b. 1880	Brandt Snedeker b. 1980
Madison Smartt Bell b. 1957	Bill Wade b. 1930	Robin Beard b. 1939

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
American football player	18.6%	8
politician	18.6%	8
businessperson	18.6%	8
university professor	11.6%	5
lawyer	9.3%	4
military officer	9.3%	4
writer	9.3%	4
screenwriter	7.0%	3
novelist	7.0%	3
journalist	7.0%	3

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
businessperson	5.4×	8
military officer	4.8×	4
university professor	3.7×	5
novelist	3.2×	3
lawyer	1.8×	4
politician	1.8×	8
screenwriter	1.6×	3
journalist	1.6×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	9.3%	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
Guggenheim Fellowship	4.9×	4

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	18.6%	8

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.