Fun Facts About Montessori Education
Famous Montessorians
Some famous people who attended Montessori school as children:
- Elizabeth Berridge, actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst, founder, AMAZON.COM
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders, GOOGLE.COM
- T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
- Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbooks
- Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
- Katherine Graham, owner/editor of the Washington Post
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, editor, former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
- Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family
- Anne Frank, famous diarist from world war II
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- 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, actress
- Cher Bono, singer-actress
- John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
- Yul Brynner, actor
- Marcy Carcy, TV producer
- William Jefferson & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
- Michael Douglas, actor
- Shari Lewis, puppeteer
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
Others with a Montessori Connection:
- Alexander Graham Bell, noted inventor, provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori. Helped establish the first Montessori school in Canada and one of the first in the United States.
- 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
- Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
- Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method
- Gordon Ramsey, internationally-known chef, is married to a Montessori teacher