William Wright, an American computer game designerwas educated at a local Montessori school, where he enjoyed its emphasis on creativity, problem solving, and self-motivation. Wright admitted to having been inspired to create certain elements of SimCity from his experiences in the school.Montessori taught me the joy of discovery...It showed you can become interested in pretty complex theories, like Pythagorean theory, say, by playing with blocks. It’s all about learning on your terms, rather than a teacher explaining stuff to you. SimCity comes right out of Montessori—if you give people this model for building cities, they will abstract from it principles of urban design.
His greatest success to date came as the original designer for The Sims games series which, as of 2008, is the best-selling PC game in history.
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As a preschooler, Jeffrey P. Bezos displayed an unmatched single-mindedness. By his mother's account, the young Bezos got so engrossed in the details of activities at his Montessori school that teachers had to pick him up in his chair to move him to new tasks. It's a trait that goes a long way toward explaining why the company he founded, Amazon.com Inc., has survived to become the most dominant retailer on the Internet.

“I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.”

Dakota Fanning 

Katherine Graham (deceased), owner/editor of the Washington Post  

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (deceased), editor, former first lady 

Sean 'P.Diddy' (formerly known as Puffy) Combs, RAP mega-star and businessman 

Anne Frank (deceased), famous diarist from World War II  

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner for Literature 

Prince William and Prince Harry, English royal family 

T. Berry Brazelton, noted pediatrician and author  

Melissa Gilbert (Little House on the Prairie) and Sarah Gilbert (Rosanne), actors

Famous people who chose Montessori schools for their own children:

Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer-producer-director  

Patty Duke Austin, actress  

Cher Bono, singer-actress  

John Bradshaw, psychologist and author  

Yul Brynner (dec.), actor  

Marcy Carcy, TV producer  

Bill & Hillary Clinton, former president/senator, NY 

Michael Douglas, actor 

Shari Lewis (dec.), puppeteer

Others with a Montessori Connection:

Alexander Graham Bell, noted inventor, and his wife Mabel provided financial support directly to Dr. Montessori and helped establish the first Montessori Class in the United States in 1913.  

Mister Rogers, children’s TV personality, was a strong supporter of Montessori Education.  

Thomas Edison, noted scientist and inventor, helped found a Montessori school.  

President Wilson’s daughter was a Montessori teacher. There was a Montessori Classroom in the White House during Wilson’s presidency.