Washington Irving High School

New York · 28 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

Whoopi Goldberg b. 1955	Claudette Colbert b. 1903	Asa Akira b. 1985
Gabourey Sidibe b. 1983	Sylvia Sidney b. 1910	Lee Krasner b. 1908
Anita Page b. 1910	Sylvia Miles b. 1924	Joy Behar b. 1942
Patricia Morison b. 1915	Sylvia Robinson b. 1936	Gertrude Berg b. 1899

Occupations

Most common

Occupation	% of its alumni	People
actor	44.6%	13
film actor	34.6%	11
television actor	25.3%	8
stage actor	21.7%	8
writer	19.5%	5
film director	16.9%	3
voice actor	14.0%	3
painter	13.5%	5
singer	13.3%	3
children's writer	10.9%	3
screenwriter	9.7%	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
children's writer	11.4×	3
painter	9.3×	5
stage actor	4.2×	8
voice actor	3.0×	3
film director	2.8×	3
film actor	2.7×	11
actor	2.3×	13
writer	2.2×	5
television actor	2.0×	8
screenwriter	1.7×	3
singer	1.7×	3

Awards

Most common

Award	% of its alumni	People
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	10.8%	4

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
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame	6.3×	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.