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Famous, Successful 
Montessori-Educated People

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Many familiar people, who were Montessori educated, are listed below:
  • Peter Drucker, Management Guru
  • Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
  • Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google
  • Jeffrey Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
  • Katharine Graham, Owner/Editor of the Washington Post
    "The Montessori method—learning by doing— once again became my stock in trade..." from Personal History by Katharine Graham
  • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Editor, Former First Lady
  • Sean 'P.Diddy' (formerly known as Puffy) Combs, RAP mega-star
  • Anne Frank, Author of The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
  • Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
  • T. Berry Brazelton, Pediatrician and Author
  • Julia Child, Chef, Star of many TV Cooking Shows, and Author
  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and Architect

Many famous people chose Montessori schools for their own children including the following:
  • Stephen J. Cannell, TV Writer-Producer-Director
  • Patty Duke Austin, Actress
  • Cher Bono, Singer and Actress
  • John Bradshaw, Psychologist and Author
  • Yul Brynner, Actor
  • Marcy Carcy, TV producer
  • Bill and Hillary Clinton, Former US President and 67th US Secretary of State
  • Michael Douglas, Actor
  • Shari Lewis, Puppeteer
  • Yo Yo Ma, Cellist
  • Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern, Governor of Michigan

​Other famous people connected to Montessori include:
  • Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) and his wife Mabel founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913.  They also provided financial support directly to Dr. Maria 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, was a strong supporter of Montessori education.
  • Thomas Edison, 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, noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher.
  • Erik Erikson, noted anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate.
  • 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

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