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Notable People
Below is a list of many familiar people who were Montessori educated:
- Anne Frank, famous diarist from world war II
- Katherine Graham (dec.), owner/editor of the Washington Post
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (dec.), editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of GOOGLE.COM
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, AMAZON.COM
- Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
- T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
- Sean 'P.Diddy' (formerly known as Puffy) Combs, RAP mega-star
- Julia Child (dec.), 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
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 (dec.), actor
- Marcy Carcy, TV producer
- Bill & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
- Michael Douglas, actor
- Shari Lewis (dec.), puppeteer
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
Others with a Montessori Connection:
- Alexander Graham Bell (dec.), 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, children's TV personality, strong supporter of Montessori education
- Thomas Edison, 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, restauranteur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher
- Bruno Bettelheim (dec.), noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
- Erik Erikson (dec.), noted anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
- Jean Piaget (dec.), 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
Thanks to the Casa di Mir Montessori
School in California for putting together most of this list!
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