Walt Whitman High School

Maryland · 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

Spike Jonze b. 1969	Mark Pryor b. 1963	Chris Anderson b. 1957
David Dobkin b. 1969	Debra Granik b. 1963	Giuliana Rancic b. 1974
Jeff Tremaine b. 1966	Eric Pierpoint b. 1950	Steven Rales b. 1951
Jo Ann Emerson b. 1950	Ashley Parker b. 1982	Michael B. Eisen b. 1967

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
journalist	25.3%	9
politician	12.6%	5
writer	11.6%	5
screenwriter	11.5%	5
film director	11.5%	5
actor	11.5%	5
American football player	9.8%	3
television actor	9.2%	4
film producer	8.7%	4
television producer	7.6%	3
director	7.2%	3
film actor	6.4%	3
businessperson	5.0%	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
journalist	4.4×	9
director	4.0×	3
television producer	2.6×	3
film director	2.3×	5
film producer	2.2×	4
screenwriter	2.1×	5
writer	1.8×	5
businessperson	1.8×	3
politician	1.5×	5

Sports

Most common

Sport	% of its alumni	People
American football	9.8%	3

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.