Thornton Township High School

Illinois · 37 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

Betty Robinson b. 1911	Melvin Van Peebles b. 1932	Michael Boatman b. 1964
Jim Ard b. 1948	Lou Boudreau b. 1917	Bill Hayes b. 1925
Melvin Ely b. 1978	LaRoyce Hawkins b. 1988	Suzzanne Douglas b. 1957
Marvin Jones b. 1993	Rod Higgins b. 1960	Antwaan Randle El b. 1979

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
basketball player	44.2%	13
American football player	30.8%	10
actor	18.2%	7
television actor	16.4%	6
film actor	14.2%	5
basketball coach	12.1%	5
baseball player	8.5%	5
writer	7.3%	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
basketball coach	3.0×	5
basketball player	1.9×	13
television actor	1.5×	6

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
basketball	47.7%	14
American football	30.8%	10
baseball	4.1%	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
basketball	2.0×	14

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.