The Putney School

Vermont · 67 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

Felicity Huffman b. 1962	Wallace Shawn b. 1943	Téa Leoni b. 1966
Lydia Davis b. 1947	Jeffrey Jones b. 1946	Reid Hoffman b. 1967
Tim Daly b. 1956	Errol Morris b. 1948	Sally Mann b. 1951
Carlton Cuse b. 1959	Ken Olin b. 1954	Heather Nova b. 1968

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
musician	21.0%	8
actor	19.7%	13
writer	16.9%	14
film actor	14.0%	10
composer	13.7%	6
film director	13.5%	10
television actor	12.4%	9
singer-songwriter	11.4%	5
poet	11.4%	5
film producer	10.7%	8
journalist	9.4%	9
singer	9.0%	5
director	7.1%	5
screenwriter	5.6%	4
stage 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
poet	12.7×	5
director	4.2×	5
singer-songwriter	3.4×	5
musician	3.2×	8
composer	3.0×	6
film director	2.8×	10
film producer	2.7×	8
writer	2.5×	14
journalist	2.1×	9
novelist	1.8×	3
stage actor	1.8×	4
university professor	1.7×	3
film actor	1.6×	10
actor	1.5×	13

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	8.7%	8
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	3.6%	3

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
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences	7.6×	3
Guggenheim Fellowship	6.1×	8

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.