Are there any famous or successful people who were Montessori educated?
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 President and New York Senator
Michael Douglas, Actor
Shari Lewis, Puppeteer
Yo Yo Ma, Cellist
Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern, Governor of Michigan
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.