Some Famous People Who Attended Montessori
Anne Frank, famous diarist from world war II
Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (deceased), editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, AMAZON.COM
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)
Katherine Graham (deceased), owner/editor of the Washington Post
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Cofounders of GOOGLE.COM
"According to [Sergey] Brin, the Montessori approach instilled in them self-direction and self-motivation, an inclination to challenge the status quo and to do things differently" (John Long)
Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors
Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
Sean 'P.Diddy' (formerly known as Puffy) Combs, RAP mega-star
T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
Famous People Who Chose Montessori For Their Own Children
Cher Bono, singer-actress
Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress
John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
Marcy Carcy, TV producer
Michael Douglas, actor
Patty Duke Austin, actress
Shari Lewis, puppeteer
Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)
T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
William Jefferson & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
Yo Yo Ma, cellist
Yul Brynner, actor
Other Interesting Montessori Facts
Brrrrriiiing... - Alexander Graham Bell, a noted inventor, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. He also helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States.
Alice Waters -, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher.
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.
Mister Rogers -, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method
Father of the phonograph - Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
Montessori in the White House -President Woodrow Wilson's daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. There was a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during Wilson's presidency
