George Clooney and Heike Makatsch are both successful actors. They also have another thing in common: both are former Montessori students. The list of extraordinary personalities who have encountered Montessori education in the course of their lives and have made a difference in their own way is long - even if very few of them are as famous as the following people:
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google
- Prince William and Prince Harry of England
- Jeff Bezos, financial analyst and founder of amazon.com
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Herman van Veen, musician, writer and cabaret artist
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist
- George Clooney, US actor
- Anne Frank, contemporary witness (The Diary of Anne Frank)
- Helen Hunt, US actress
- Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia
- Peter Drucker, US-American economist of Austrian origin
- Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
- Heike Makatsch, former MTV presenter and actress
- Hugh Grant, British actor