There are many ‘famous’ people that attended a Montessori school in some stage of their life. While one can argue, that there are many successful people who were not exposed to Montessori education, interesting is that many of those who attended Montessori school praise it as one of the important success factors.
Famous People Educated at Montessori schools:
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin – founders of Google
- Jeff Bezos – founder of Amazon.com
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis – former first lady (John F. Kennedy)
- Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs – singer
- Prince William and Prince Harry
- T. Berry Brazelton – pediatrician and author
- Julia Child – author, chef, TV cooking shows
- Elizabeth Berridge – actress
- Kami Cotler – actress
- Melissa and Sarah Gilbert – actors
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Nobel Prize winner for Literature
- Katherine Graham – ex-owner of the Washington Post
- Anne Frank – author, diarist from World War II
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) is talking education, mentioning that Montessori schools are doing a better job than most in teaching independent thinking – watch from 11:20, or the whole interview – it’s worth it!
Sergey Brin and Larry Page (founders of Google) both attended Montessori preschool and both highlight that it was Montessori education that contributed to their independent thinking and success.
More from Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google) on the role of Montessori education in his and Larry Page’s life.
Do you know any other famous Montessori Educated people?
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Thank you for this article! It’s such a hard thing to prove, that a Montessori education is better that a tradition one!
[quote name="Spud"]Other famous Montessori-educated people are Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hugh Grant, who both went to Wetherby, a Montessori school in London (the same school as Princes William and Harry.)[/quote]
there are 2 different Wetherby school in London and prince william went to a non-montessori one – its on wikipedia – you can see it for yourself.
just looked up the information about Prince William – he did not go to a montessori school.
I’ve seen photos of him, as a young child, at school, using Montessori materials, and the classroom was a properly prepared environment. The caption also identified the Montessori school. That was only preschool. But, yes, he did attend Montessori
I heard Princess Diana say in an interview that she sent her sons to Montessori casa…Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice their cousins did too and now Prince William and Princess Kate sent their son Prince George to a Montessori casa as well…
Vikram Sarabhai, front-line Scientist, India had Montessori education with a ‘school’ set up at his parents home.
Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Einstein and many others mentioned in one of the comments, were supporters of Montessori education
[quote name="Z"]Here are some more famous montessorians: Alice waters, Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, Buckminster Fuller, Leo Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Erik Erikson, John Holt, Yo Yo Ma.[/quote]
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and was educated at home by French governesses. And Montessori was born in 1870 🙂
Taylor swift and Dakota fanning also went to a Montessori school.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)could not have attended a Montessori school. He was born BEFORE Montessori (1870-1952).
I am successful today because of God and the Montessori method has done tremendously in my life.
An entrepreneur
A proprietor
A motivational speaker
A leader
Here are some more famous montessorians: Alice waters, Helen Keller, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sigmund Freud, Buckminster Fuller, Leo Tolstoy, Bertrand Russell, Erik Erikson, John Holt, Yo Yo Ma.
I think Z, that you mix up people who supported Montessori in her life time and her educational endeavours and some who received a Montessori education.
I don’t think Sigmund did, but his daughter Anna for sure.
Mark Zuckerberg – the co-founder of Facebook was apparently educated at a Montessori school.
Other famous Montessori-educated people are Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hugh Grant, who both went to Wetherby, a Montessori school in London (the same school as Princes William and Harry.)
Yes, one of my students from the O.B.Montessori Center, Phil.Inc…. her name is LEA SALONGA is one of the famous Filipino singer and Broadway Actress. She is the star in the famous Broadway musical “Miss Saigon†and now “Cinderella†which is being shown in the Philippines stage .