Le magazine du Lycée International Montessori

Anne Frank is remembered around the world for her diary Het Achterhuis which speaks about her adolescence in German occupied Amsterdam in World War two. The diary describes the impact of Nazi anti-Semitism on Jewish and Dutch communities.
Anne was born to an upper class Jewish family in Frankfurt before moving to Amsterdam. Her family selected a small Montessori School for Anne to attend where she was remembered as an ordinary student but with the ability to draw more from her experiences than the average student – a typical Montessorian characteristic.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Google, the Internet search engine, was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They had been friends since childhood but when asked if it was the fact that their parents were both college professors being the reason for their success they said no, that it was their going to a Montessori school where they learned to be self directed and self starters. They said that Montessori education allowed them to learn to think for themselves and gave them freedom to pursue their own interests.

President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson, President of The United States of America had a Montessori classroom installed in the basement of the Whitehouse during his term of office for staff to send their children to and his daughter trained as a Montessori teacher. Margaret Wilson was on the committee that brought Dr Montessori to the USA in 1915.

Many other familiar people who were Montessori educated, are listed below:
* Peter Drucker, Management Guru
* Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
* Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google
* Jeffrey Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com
* Katharine Graham, Owner/Editor of the Washington Post
"The Montessori method—learning by doing— once again became my stock in trade..." from Personal History by Katharine Graham
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature
* T. Berry Brazelton, Pediatrician and Author
* Julia Child, Chef, Star of many TV Cooking Shows, and Author
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian painter and Architect

Many famous people chose Montessori schools for their own children including the following:
* Stephen J. Cannell, TV Writer-Producer-Director
* Patty Duke Austin, Actress
* Cher Bono, Singer and Actress
* John Bradshaw, Psychologist and Author
* Yul Brynner, Actor
* Marcy Carcy, TV producer
* Bill and Hillary Clinton, Former President and New York Senator
* Michael Douglas, Actor
* Shari Lewis, Puppeteer
* Yo Yo Ma, Cellist
* Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern, Governor of Michigan

Other famous people connected to Montessori include:
* Alexander Graham Bell (inventor) and his wife Mabel founded the Montessori Education Association in 1913. They also provided financial support directly to Dr. Maria Montessori and helped establish the first Montessori class in Canada and one of the first in the United States.
* Mister Rogers, children's TV personality, was a strong supporter of Montessori education.
* Thomas Edison, 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.