What do all of these amazing people have in common?

They are all graduates of Montessori Schools!

• Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia 

• Anne Frank: Famous Diarist from World WarII

• Julia Child- American chef, author, and television personality

• David Blaine: Magician

• Will Wright:  Original designer of the groundbreaking games SimCity, The Sims and Spore, Wright stated he had been inspired to create certain elements of SimCity from his experiences in his Montessori school.

• Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs: Music Producer/Entrepreneur

• President Woodrow Wilson:  The 28th President of the United States, even had a Montessori classroom installed in the basement of the White House during his term of office for staff to send their children to and his daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. 

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez:  Columbian Novelist, journalist and publisher.  Nobel Prize Winner in Literature in 1982.

• Katherine Graham:  Owner/editor Washington Post,  "The Montessori Method - learning by doing - became my stock in trade..."  from Personal History by Katherine Graham

• Prince Harry and Prince William

• Peter Drucker: "The Father of Modern Management"

• George Clooney:  Academy Award Winner.

• Helen Hunt:  Academy Award Winning Actor

• Jeff Bezos:  Amazon.com Founder

• Devi Sridhar: Youngest American Rhodes Scholar

• Sergey Brin and Lary Page: Founders of Google

• Lea Salonga:  Tony Award Winning Actor

• Dakota Fanning: Academy Award nominated actress

• Eric Cornell. PhD.: Nobel Prize Winner

• Joshua Bell:  American Grammy Winning Violinist

• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis:  She was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963, as well as an Editor.

• Craig and Marc Kielburger:  Child rights advocated, best selling authors and leadership specialists.  Founded Free the Children, the world's largest network of children helping children, and co-founded Leaders Today a youth leadership training organization.

• Virginia Lee Burton:  Talented author and illustrator of some of the most enduring books ever written for children.  Daughter of Dean Burton, the first dean of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who converted his barn into a Montessori School.  She was the author of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, which was first published in 1939. She was the winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for The Little House.

Below are some famous advocates of the Montessori Method

Mister Rogers: Children's Television Personality and Strong Supporter of Montessori Education

Jean Piaget: Noted Swiss Psychologist and Head of the Swiss Montessori Society

Alice Waters: Restaurateur (Chez Panise), Author and Trained Montessori Teacher

Thomas Edison: Scientist, Inventor and Founder of a Montessori School

Erik Erikson: Noted Anthropologist, Author and Trained Montessori Teacher

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