List of notable chess players
This is a list of chess players.
Famous people who were/are avid chess players
The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess or maintain a current interest in chess.
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- Woody Allen
- Atahualpa
- George Airy
- Newell Banks (USA, World American Checkers (English Draughts) Champion 1887–1977)
- Humphrey Bogart
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Henry Thomas Buckle (English historian)
- John Cage
- Lewis Carroll
- Catherine the Great
- Charlemagne
- Ray Charles
- Aleister Crowley (diabolist)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Albert Einstein
- Paul Erdős
- Leonhard Euler
- Richard Feynman
- Benjamin Franklin
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ephraim Kishon (satirist, Kishon Chesster chess computer)
- Stanley Kubrick
- Yosef Lapid
- Pope Leo XIII
- Lennox Lewis
- Samuel Loyd
- Abraham de Moivre
- Vladimir Nabokov (Russian writer)
- Alexander Pushkin (Russian writer)
- Sergei Prokofiev (Russian composer & pianist)
- Saladin
- Jonathan Sarfati (Australian scientist and author)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- George C. Scott (U.S. actor)
- Nathan Sharansky
- Juan Maria Solare (Argentine composer & pianist)
- Will Smith
- Raymond Smullyan
- Sting
- Josip Broz Tito
- Leo Tolstoy
- Queen Victoria
- George Washington
- John Wayne
~ Table of Content ~
| ► | Introduction |
| ► | Chess players by vocation |
| ► | Famous people who were/are avid chess players |
| ► | Computers |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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