There are quite a number of famous and successful people who, in some form or another, have a Montessori connection. Check some interesting names below...

Below are some of the famous people who attended Montessori school as children:

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google.com
• Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, Amazon.com
• Katherine Graham, owner/editor of the Washington Post
• Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
• Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbook
• Anne Frank, famous diarist from world war II
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
• T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and architect
• George Clooney, Academy Award-winning actor
• Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
• Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actors
• Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
• Joshua Bell, American violinist, owner of Stradivarius violin
• Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, rap star, music mogul

Below are some of the famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:

• Bill & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
• John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
• Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress
• Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)
• Willie Nelson, musician, has a Montessori school on his ranch
• Patty Duke Austin, actress
• Cher Bono, singer-actress
• Michael Douglas, actor
• Yul Brynner, actor
• Marcy Carcy, TV producer
• Shari Lewis, puppeteer
• Yo Yo Ma, cellist
• David Blaine, street magician

And below are others with some kind of Montessori Connection:

• Alexander Graham Bell, noted inventor, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. Helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States
• Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
• Bruno Bettelheim, noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
• Erik Erikson, anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
• Jean Piaget, noted Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school.
• Alice Waters, restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher
• 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
• Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method