There are quite a number of famous and successful people who, in some form or another, have a Montessori connection. Check some interesting names below...
Below are some of the famous people who attended Montessori school as children:
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google.com
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, Amazon.com
- Katherine Graham, owner/editor of the Washington Post
- Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
- Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbook
- Anne Frank, famous diarist from world war II
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and architect
- George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor
- Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
- Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors
- Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
- Joshua Bell, American violinist, owner of Stradivarius violin
- Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, rap star, music mogul
Below are some of the famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:
- Bill & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
- John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
- Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress
- Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)
- Willie Nelson,
musician, has a Montessori school on his ranch - Patty Duke Austin, actress
- Cher Bono, singer-actress
- Michael Douglas, actor
- Yul Brynner, actor
- Marcy Carcy, TV producer
- Shari Lewis, puppeteer
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
- David Blaine, street magician
And below are others with some kind of Montessori Connection:
- Alexander Graham Bell,
noted inventor, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. Helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States - Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
- Bruno Bettelheim, noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
- Erik Erikson, anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
- Jean Piaget,
noted Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school. - Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher
- President Wilson’s daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. There was a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during Wilson’s presidency
- Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method
