A number of well-known figures across various fields are reported to have attended Montessori schools at some stage in their education. While it would be an oversimplification to attribute anyone’s success entirely to their schooling, many of those listed below have spoken positively about the influence of their early education on their independent thinking and creativity.
Notable People with a Montessori Education
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin — co-founders of Google
- Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis — former First Lady of the United States
- Sean “P. Diddy” Combs — musician and entrepreneur
- Prince William and Prince Harry
- T. Berry Brazelton — paediatrician and author
- Julia Child — chef, author, and television presenter
- Gabriel García Márquez — Nobel Prize laureate in Literature
- Katharine Graham — former publisher of The Washington Post
- Anne Frank — diarist and author
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, has spoken about the importance of education that fosters independent thinking — and has mentioned Montessori schools as an example of this approach in action. The video below is worth watching from around the 11:20 mark, or in full:
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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 .