Townsend Harris High School

New York · 68 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

Julian Seymour Schwinger b. 1918	Kenneth Arrow b. 1921	Edward G. Robinson b. 1893
Richard Rodgers b. 1902	Herman Wouk b. 1915	Clifton Webb b. 1889
Cornel Wilde b. 1912	William Steig b. 1907	Sam Jaffe b. 1893
Emil Leon Post b. 1897	Frank Loesser b. 1910	Yip Harburg b. 1896

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
screenwriter	29.7%	12
journalist	28.3%	10
politician	16.7%	5
businessperson	13.2%	6
university professor	1.5%	9
physicist	1.1%	6
writer	0.9%	10
songwriter	0.9%	9
composer	0.8%	9
nuclear physicist	0.7%	4
actor	0.7%	8
scientist	0.6%	3
lyricist	0.6%	6
mathematician	0.5%	4
teacher	0.4%	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
nuclear physicist	4.2×	4
art collector	2.0×	3
journalist	1.9×	10
screenwriter	1.8×	12
businessperson	1.7×	6
physicist	1.5×	6

Employers

Most common

Employer	% of its alumni	People
Columbia University	0.7%	5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	0.6%	3
Harvard University	0.4%	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
Columbia University	1.6×	5

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
Guggenheim Fellowship	0.9%	5
Tony Award for Best Musical	0.4%	3
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	0.4%	5
Pulitzer Prize for Drama	0.2%	3
Academy Award for Best Original Song	0.2%	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
Tony Award for Best Musical	12.0×	3
Pulitzer Prize for Drama	1.9×	3

Offices held

Most common

Office	% of its alumni	People
member of the New York State Assembly	16.6%	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
member of the New York State Assembly	15.1×	3

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.