Famous & Successful People and Montessori
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
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.
