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Graduates:
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin
- Founders of Google.com, credit Montessori for much of their success
Jeff Bezos - financial analyst
and founder of Amazon.com
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nobel Prize winner for Literature
Katherine Graham - owner/editor of the Washington Post
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - editor, former first
lady
Anne Frank - famous diarist of World War II
Prince William and Prince Harry
- English royal family
T. Berry Brazelton - noted pediatrician and author
Julia Child - famous chef, star of many TV cooking shows and author
of numerous cookbooks
Elizabeth Berridge - actress (Constanze in Amadeus)
Kami Cotler - actress (youngest child on long-running series The Waltons)
Melissa and Sarah Gilbert - actors
David Blaine
- magician, endurance artist and advocate of
"street magic"
Advocates:
Stephen J. Cannell
- TV writer-producer-director (The Rockford Files
and many others)
Patty Duke Austin - actress
Susan St. James
- actress
Cher - singer-actress
John Bradshaw - psychologist and author
Yul Brynner - actor
Marcy Carcy - TV producer
Bill & Hillary Clinton - former President/NY State
Senator
Michael Douglas - actor
Shari Lewis - puppeteer
Yo Yo Ma - cellist
Supporters and Advocates:
Alexander Graham
Bell - inventor
He and his wife Mabel
founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913. They also
provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori and helped
establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first
in the United States
Fred Rogers - children's TV personality, strong supporter of
Montessori education
Thomas Edison - noted scientist and inventor, helped found a
Montessori school
President Wilson's daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. There
was a Montessori classroom in the basement of the White House during
Wilson's presidency
Alice Waters - restaurateur and writer, is a former Montessori
teacher
Bruno Bettelheim - noted psychologist/author, was married to a
Montessori teacher
Erik Erikson - noted anthropologist/author, had a Montessori
teaching certificate
Jean Piaget - noted Swiss psychologist, made his first
observations of children in a Montessori school. He was also head of
the Swiss Montessori Society for many years.
Robert Frost -
Poet Laureate. One of Americas best read poets.
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