1. Jeff Bezoz, Amazon
2. Larry page, Google
3. Sergey Bink, Google
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Some famous people who attended Montessori schools:
- Prince William and Prince Harry, English Royalty, Heir to the thrown
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst and founder of AMAZON.COM
- T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of GOOGLE.COM
- Julia Child, famous chef, hostess of TV cooking show, and author of numerous cookbooks
- George Clooney, Actor (ER, Oceans 11 & 12, etc.)
- Anne Frank, Jewish author of World War II Diary (The Diary of Anne Frank)
- Melissa and Sarah Gilbert, actresses: Little House on the Prairie and Rosanne, respectively
- Helen Hunt, actress, Mad About You, As Good As it Gets, etc.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner Nobel Prize for Literature
- Katherine Graham, former owner/editor of The Washington Post
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady
- Jimmy Wales, founder Wikipedia
- Will Wright, designer of The Sims, popular simulation/strategy game
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Some famous people who choose a Montessori education for their own children: |
- Patty Duke Austin, actress
- Cher Bono, singer / actress
- John Bradshaw, psychologist and author
- Yul Brynner, actor
- William Jefferson & Hillary Rodham Clinton, former president and NY senator, respectively
- Michael Douglas, actor
- Yo Yo Ma, cellist
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Some famous people who have supported Montessori education: |
- Alexander Graham Bell, noted inventor, and his wife Mabel provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori, and founded the Montessori Educational Association at their Washington, D.C. home.
- Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped to found a Montessori school
- Henry Ford, industrialist
- Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India / peace educator and activist - spoke at The Montessori Training College, London 1931 after meeting Dr. Maria Montessori and finding they had much in common
- Helen Keller, author, educator, fundraiser/spokesperson for the handicapped. Anne Sullivan's teaching method with Helen Keller became a Montessori model
- the Dalai Lama, the head of state and spiritual leader of the people of Tibet, founded the Tibetan Children's Village
- Fred Rogers, children's TV personality, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, was a strong supporter of the Montessori philosophy of education
- Woodrow Wilson, former president, had a Montessori classroom in the basement of the Whitehouse during his term in office, his daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. Margaret Wilson was on the committee that brought Dr. Maria Montessori to the US to present her "glass house" school room exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco, 1915.
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