Palo Alto High School

California · 76 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

Joan Baez b. 1941	James Franco b. 1978	Dave Franco b. 1985
Jeremy Lin b. 1988	Grace Slick b. 1939	Erle Stanley Gardner b. 1889
Douglas Hofstadter b. 1945	Ron Wyden b. 1949	Tad Williams b. 1957
Rob Minkoff b. 1962	Karen Joy Fowler b. 1950	Lisa Brennan-Jobs b. 1978

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
writer	15.8%	12
film director	11.8%	9
singer	11.8%	9
journalist	9.2%	7
actor	7.9%	6
basketball player	7.9%	6
novelist	7.9%	6
screenwriter	7.9%	6
American football player	7.9%	6
television actor	6.6%	5
composer	6.6%	5
musician	6.6%	5
athletics competitor	5.3%	4
politician	5.3%	4
film actor	5.3%	4

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
rugby union player	35.5×	3
science fiction writer	12.1×	3
novelist	4.0×	6
film director	3.4×	9
athletics competitor	3.3×	4
writer	2.4×	12
singer	2.3×	9
journalist	2.2×	7
singer-songwriter	2.1×	3
composer	2.0×	5
screenwriter	1.9×	6
businessperson	1.9×	4
film producer	1.8×	4
musician	1.5×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	7.9%	6
American football	5.3%	4
athletics	5.3%	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
athletics	2.7×	4

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.