People

Familiar people who were Montessori educated

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google.com, credit their Montessori education for much of their success
• Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder of Amazon.com
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
• Katherine Graham (deceased), owner/editor of the Washington Post
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (deceased), 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
• Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
• T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
• Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbooks
• Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
• Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
• Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors
• David Blaine, a magician as well as endurance artist and advocate of "street magic."

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 Austin, actress
• Cher Bono, singer-actress
• John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
• Yul Brynner (deceased), actor
• Marcy Carcy, TV producer
• William (Bill) & Hillary Clinton, former president & NY senator
• Michael Douglas, actor
• Shari Lewis (deceased), puppeteer
• Yo Yo Ma, cellist
• Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress

Others with a Montessori Connection

• Alexander Graham Bell (deceased), 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 (deceased), children's TV personality, strong supporter of Montessori education.
• Thomas Edison, (deceased) 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.
• Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher.
• Bruno Bettelheim (deceased), noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher.
• Erik Erikson (deceased), noted anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate.
• Jean Piaget (deceased), 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.