Some well known 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, Cofounders of GOOGLE.COM
• T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
• Julia Child, famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author of numerous cookbook
• Kami Cotler, actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
• Katherine Graham (deceased), owner/editor of the Washington Post
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (deceased), 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

Well known people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:

• Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files and many others)
• Patty Duke Austin, actress
• Cher Bono, singer-actress
• John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
• Yul Brynner (deceased), actor
• Marcy Carcy, TV producer
• William Jefferson & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY
• Michael Douglas, actor
• Shari Lewis (dec.), puppeteer
• Yo Yo Ma, cellist
• Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James, television executive and actress

Others with a Montessori Connection:

• Alexander Graham Bell (deceased), 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.
• Bruno Bettelheim (deceased), noted psychologist/author, was married to a Montessori teacher
• Erik Erikson (deceased), anthropologist/author, had a Montessori teaching certificate
• Jean Piaget (deceased), 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 (deceased), noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
• Mister Rogers (deceased), children’s TV personality, strong supporter of the Montessori method