• 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.
• 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.
• 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