Peter Drucker
Management Guru
Montessorians
Famous Montessorians
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