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Montessorians
FAMOUS MONTESSORIANS:
- Peter Drucker - Management Guru
- Anne Frank - Author of the Diary of Anne Frank
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Co-founders of Google
- Jeffrey Bezos - Founder of Amazon.com
- Julia Child - Chef and cookbook author
- George Clooney - Actor
- Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nobel Prize Winner (Literature)
- Helen Hunt - Academy Award Winner
- Katharine Graham - Owner/Editor of the Washington Post
- Prince William And Prince Harry - English Royalty
- T. Berry Brazelton - Noted Pediatrician
- John and Joan Cusack - Actor and Actress
- Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs - Rap mega-star
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - Editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
- David Blain - Magician
- Dakota Fanning - Academy Award Nominated Actress
- Will Wright - Creator of “The Sims” video game
- Yo Yo Ma - United Nations Peace Ambassador, winner of 15 Grammy Awards, Presidential Medal of Freedom & National Medal of the Arts
- Taylor Swift - Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
- Dr. Davi Sridhar - Youngest American Rhodes Scholar
- Eric Cornell, PhD - Nobel Prize Winner
- Beyonce Knowles - Singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer, 16-time Grammy award-winner
OTHERS WITH A MONTESSORI CONNECTION:
- Alexander Graham Bell - 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
- Bruno Bettelheim - Psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
- Erik Erikson - Anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
- Jean Piaget - Swiss psychologist, made his first observations of children in a Montessori school.
- Alice Waters - Restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori teacher
- Thomas Edison - Scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
- Mister Rogers - Children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori Method