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Few Famous Former Montessori Students

George Clooney

Julia Child

Joshua Bell

Bill Gates

Katherine Graham

Princes Harry and William

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
 Lea
Solanga
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Some
famous people who attended Montessori school as children are:
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Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
* Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google. Recently, this
article· was
written which describes how Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google,
remembers his Montessori experience.
* Peter Drucker, Management Guru
* Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
* George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor
* Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon
* Anne Frank, famous diarist from World War II
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and Architect
* Bill Gates, founder of Mocrosoft, Richest Man in the World
* Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia
* Will Wright, designer of The Sims
* Katherine Graham, former 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
* Sean Combs, Sean 'P.Diddy' (formerly known as Puffy) Combs,
RAP mega-star
* Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and
author of numerous cookbooks Chef
* Helen Hunt, Academy Award-winning actress
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
* Joshua Bell, American violinist, owner of Stradivarius violin
* Lea Salonga, multi-awarded Filipino-American singer and Broadway
actress
* Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former editor, former
first lady (John F. Kennedy)
* Berry Brazelton, noted paediatrician and author
* 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 other)
* Patty Duke Austin, actress
* Bill and Hillary Clinton, Former President and New York Senator
* Cher Bono, singer, actress
* John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
* Yul Brynner, former actor
* Marcy Carcy, TV producer
* Michael Douglas, actor
* Shari Lewis, former puppeteer
* Yo Yo Ma, cellist
* Willie Nelson, musician, has a Montessori school on his ranch
* Elizabeth Berridge, actress
* David Blaine, street magician
* Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern, Governor of Michigan
Others
with a Montessori connection:
* Bruno Bettelheim, noted psychologist/author,
was married to a Montessori teacher
* 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.
* Erik Erikson, 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.
* Mister Rogers, children’s TV personality, strong supporter
of Montessori education
* 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.
* Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori
teacher
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