Famous Montessorians
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page, Founders of Google
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, editor, former First Lady (John F. Kennedy)
- Sean ‘P.Diddy’ (formerly known as Puffy) Combs, RAP mega-star
- Anne Frank, famous diarist from World War II
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, AMAZON.COM
- Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
- T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
- Helen Keller, author, activist, lecturer
- Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbooks
- Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
- Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and architect
- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
- Will Wright, designer of The Sims
- Helen Hunt, Academy Award-winning actress
- George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor, producer
- Joshua Bell, American violinist, owner of Stradivarius Violin
- Lea Salonga, a Filipino-American singer and Broadway actress
- Katharine Graham, former editor of the Washington Post
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, musician, conductor
Famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children
- Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)
- Patty Duke Astin, actress
- Cher Bono, singer-actress
- John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
- Yul Brynner, actor
- Marcy Carcy, TV producer
- Bill & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
- Michael Douglas, actor
- Shari Lewis, puppeteer
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
- Elizabeth Berridge, actress
- David Blaine, street magician
Others with a Montessori connection
- Alexander Graham Bell, noted inventor, and his wife Mabel, founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913. They also provided financial support directly to Dr.
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Montessori and helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States.
- Mister Rogers, children’s TV personality, strong supporter of Montessori education.
- Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped found a Montessori school.
- 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.
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Jean Piaget, noted Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school. He was also head of the Swiss Montessori Society for many years.
- Willie Nelson, musician, has a Montessori School on his ranch.
- Erik Erikson, anthropologist and author, had a Montessori teaching diploma.
- Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, CA, attended Montessori Teacher Training in London.
- Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company, advocated Montessori Education.
- Sigmund Freud, considered the father of modern psychoanalysis, physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the Twentieth Century, was a contemporary of Montessori and promoted her work.
- Princess Diana attended Montessori Teacher Training in London
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