List of Famous Montessori Students

BILL GATES – Founder of Microsoft

LARRY PAGE & SERGEY BRIN – Founders of Google

JEFF BEZOS – Founder & CEO of Amazon.com

JIMBO WALES – Founder of Wikipedia

JOSHUA BELL – Grammy award-winning violinist and subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning media story

DAVID BLAINE – Illusionist & magician

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER – Composer

BERRY BRAZELTON – Pediatrician, child psychiatrist, author and Harvard medical school professor emeritus

JULIA CHILD – Celebrity chef & author

GEORGE CLOONEY – Academy award-winning actor, director, producer, humanitarian, United nations messenger of peace

ANNE FRANK – author, diarist from World War II

PRINCE WILLIAM and PRINCE HARRY and now PRINCE GEORGE – English royal family

SEAN “P Diddy” COMBS – Grammy award-winning musician, rap recording artist and ceo of bad boy records

JOHN and JOAN CUSACK – Actor and screenwriter, and Academy award-nominated actress, respectively

PETER DRUCKER – Author, Management consultant, “social ecologist”, awarded the presidential medal of freedom

KATHARINE GRAHAM – Pulitzer prize-winning author and Former owner & editor of the Washington Post

HELEN KELLER – Political activist, author, lecturer, awarded the presidential medal of freedom

TAYLOR SWIFT – Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter

HM QUEEN NOOR of JORDAN – U.N. Advisor, humanitarian activist

DEVI SRIDHAR – Youngest-ever American Rhodes scholar, author, oxford research fellow, oxford lecturer on global health politics

JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS – Former first lady and double day editor

ERIK ERIKSON – Psychologist & author

DAKOTA FANNING – Academy Award nominated actress

HELEN HUNT – Academy award-winning actor

BEYONCE KNOWLES – Singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer,16-time Grammy award-winner

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ – Nobel prize-winning author

YO YO MA – United nations Peace Ambassador, winner of 15 Grammy Awards, Presidential Medal of Freedom & National Medal of the Arts

THOMAS EDISON – Scientist, inventor and founder of a Montessori school

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