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News
Problem
of the
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Reference
Center
Book
Reviews
Annotated
Games
|
Famous
People Who Play(ed) ChessWe thought
it would be interesting to see who a few of our fellow chessplayers are. This is by no means an exhaustive list! If you know of other famous people
who play or played chess, please
write to us with their names so that we can update this list.
|
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem |
Basketball player |
|
Abdullah ibn Huseain |
King
of Jordan |
|
Adams, Richard |
Writer |
|
Agnew, Spiro T. |
39th
US vice-president |
|
Akins, Claude |
Actor |
|
Albert, Prince |
Husband of Queen Victoria |
| Alda,
Alan |
Actor |
|
Alfonso X |
King
of Spain |
|
Allen, Woody |
Actor/director |
| Amis,
Martin |
Writer |
|
Amory, Cleveland |
Writer, conservationist |
|
Anderson, Clive |
TV
host |
|
Anderson, Terry |
Journalist, hostage |
|
Andrews, Anthony |
Actor |
|
Aquino, Corazon |
Philippine President |
|
Arafat, Yasser |
PLO
leader |
|
Ardiles, Ossie |
Soccer player |
|
Arrington, Lavar |
NFL professional football
player |
|
Ascham, Roger |
Writer, educator |
|
Asimov, Isaac |
Writer |
|
Atahualpa |
Last
Inca ruler of Peru |
|
Attlee, Clement |
British Prime Minister |
|
Auchinleck, Sir Claude |
British general, World War II hero |
| Ayer,
Alfred |
British philosopher and professor |
|
Ayers, Lew |
Actor |
|
Bacall, Lauren |
Actress |
|
Bacon, Sir Francis |
English philosopher |
|
Balfour, Arthur |
British Prime Minister |
|
Ballesteros, Seve |
Golf
player |
|
Balzac, Honore de |
French novelist |
|
Barnett, Dick |
Basketball player |
|
Barnham, Phineas. T. |
Circus owner |
|
Barrymore, John |
Actor |
|
Barrymore, Lionel |
Actor |
|
Baryshnikov, Mikhail |
Ballet star |
|
Bathory, Stephan |
King
of Poland |
| Baum,
Frank |
Writer |
|
Beauharnais, Eugene |
French general & Napoleon's adopted son |
|
Becker, Boris |
Tennis player |
|
Becket, Thomas |
Archbishop of Canterbury |
|
Beckett, Samuel |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1969 |
|
Beecham, Thomas |
English conductor |
|
Beethoven, Ludwig van |
Composer |
|
Begin, Menachem |
Israeli Prime Minister |
|
Bellamy, Guy |
Writer |
|
Benedictus, David |
Writer |
|
Bergman, Ingmar |
Swedish film director |
|
Bernhardt, Sarah |
Actress |
|
Berthelot |
Charlemagne's nephew |
|
Berthier, L. |
French general |
|
Blackmore, R.D. |
Writer |
|
Blakey, Art |
Jazz
musician |
|
Bliss, Sir Arthur |
English master of the Queen's music |
|
Blyton, Enid |
Author |
|
Boccaccio, Giovanni |
Renaissance writer |
|
Bogart, Humphrey |
Actor |
|
Boleyn, Anne |
Wife
of Henry VIII and
mother of Queen Elizabeth I |
|
Bomans, Godfried |
Dutch author |
|
Bonaparte, Napoleon |
French emperor |
|
Bondarchuk, Sergei |
Film
director |
|
Bonnington, Chris |
British mountain climber |
| Bono |
Singer (U2) |
|
Boone, Richard |
Actor |
|
Booth, Shirley |
Actress |
|
Borges, Jorge |
Argentine writer |
|
Borodin, Alex |
Russian composer and chemist |
|
Bouton, Jim |
Baseball player & writer |
|
Bowie, David |
Musician/singer |
|
Boyer, Charles |
French actor |
|
Brabazon of Tara, Lord |
British statesman & aviator |
|
Brando, Marlon |
Actor |
|
Brandt, Willy |
West
German chancellor |
|
Braque, Georges |
Artist |
|
Brodsky, Adolf |
Violinist |
|
Bronowski, Jacob |
Philosopher & writer |
|
Brown, Clifford |
Jazz
musician |
|
Bruce, Nigel |
Actor |
|
Bruno, Frank |
Heavyweight boxer |
|
Brzezinski, Zbigniew |
US
national security advisor |
|
Buchwald, Art |
Writer |
|
Buckle, Henry |
Writer, Historian |
|
Bugner, Joe |
Heavyweight boxer |
|
Caeser, Sid |
Comedian, actor, TV pioneer |
| Cage,
Nicolas |
Actor |
|
Canetti, Elias |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature |
|
Canute, King |
1st
king of England |
|
Cardano, Girolamo |
Founder of probability theory |
|
Carroll, Charles |
Signer of US Declaration of Independence |
|
Carroll, Lewis |
Writer |
|
Carter, Amy |
Daughter of President Carter |
|
Carter, Jimmy |
39th
US President |
|
Carter, Rosalyn |
Wife
of President Carter |
|
Cartwright, Bill |
Basketball player |
|
Caruso, Enrico |
Opera
singer |
|
Casals, Pablo |
Cellist |
|
Casanova, Giovanni |
Italian playboy |
|
Casillas, Graciella |
Women's World Karate Champion |
|
Castro, Fidel |
Cuban
president |
|
Catherine The Great |
Empress of Russia |
|
Cervantes, Miguel de |
Writer |
|
Chagall, Marc |
artist |
|
Chang, Michael |
Tennis player |
|
Chaplin, Charlie |
Actor, comedian |
|
Charlemagne |
King
of the Franks |
|
Charles Borromeo |
Bishop of Milan |
|
Charles I |
King
of England |
|
Charles V |
King
of France |
|
Charles VII |
King
of France |
|
Charles XII |
King
of Sweden |
|
Charles, Ray |
Musician |
|
Cherkasov, Nikolai |
Soviet actor |
|
Chopin, Frederic |
Composer |
|
Christie, John |
Mass
murderer of the 1940s |
|
Churchill, Randolph |
British statesman & father of Winston Churchill |
|
Churchill,Winston |
British Prime Minister |
| Cobb,
Lee J. |
Actor |
|
Coburn, Charles |
Actor |
|
Conchubair |
King
of Ireland |
|
Connery, Sean |
actor |
|
Conrad, Joseph |
Writer |
|
Cooke, Alistair |
PBS
broadcaster |
|
Cornforth, John |
Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry, 1975 |
|
Cosby, Bill |
Actor, comedian |
|
Crane, Les |
Film,
business |
|
Crowley, Aleister |
Writer & mystic |
| Cugat,
Xavier |
Bandleader |
|
Culbertson, Ely |
Bridge writer & expert |
|
Dabrowski, Jaroslaw |
Polish general |
|
Daladier, Edouard |
French premier |
| Dali,
Salvador |
Artist |
|
Danson, Ted |
actor |
|
Darin, Bobby |
Singer |
|
Darnell, Linda |
Actress |
|
Darrow, Henry |
Actor |
|
Darwin, Erasmus Sr. |
physician, poet, father of
Charles Darwin |
|
Davis, Steve |
World
snooker champion |
| De
Moivre, Abraham |
Mathematician |
| De
Musset, Alfred |
French novelist |
|
Debrew, Gerard |
Nobel
Prize winner in economics |
|
Delpy, Julie |
actress |
|
D'Estaing, Valey Giscard |
French President |
|
Dewey, George |
Admiral |
|
Diamond, Dustin |
Actor |
|
Diamond, Neil |
Singer & songwriter |
|
Dickens, Charles |
Writer |
|
Diderot, Denis |
French encyclopedist |
|
Dietrich, Marlene |
Actress, singer |
| Dikiy,
Alexey |
Russian actor |
|
Dimitrov, Georgi |
Bulgarian revolutionary |
|
Disraeli, Benjamin |
British Prime Minister |
|
Dobrynin, Anataoly |
Soviet diplomat & statesman |
|
Dobzynsky, Charles |
French writer |
| Dore,
Gustave |
Artist |
|
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor |
Writer |
|
Downs, Hugh |
Actor |
|
Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Writer |
|
Duchamp, Marcel |
Artist |
|
Duchamp, Raymond |
Artist (and brother of Marcel Duchamp) |
|
Duerson, Dave |
NFL professional football
player |
|
Dvorak, Antonin |
Musician |
|
Dylan, Bob |
Musician |
|
Eagle, Angela |
British Member of Parliament |
|
Ebert, Roger |
movie critic |
|
Edward III |
King
of England |
|
Edward VII |
King
of England |
|
Ehlman, Mischa |
Violinist |
|
Einstein, Albert |
Nobel
Prize winner in Physics, 1921 |
|
Einstein, Hans |
Son
of Albert Einstein |
|
Eliot, George |
Writer |
|
Elizabeth I |
Queen
of England |
|
Elizabeth II |
Queen
of England |
|
Elliot, Sean |
Basketball player |
| Eon
de Beaumont, Charles |
World's most famous transvestite |
|
Erasmus, Desiderius |
Thinker |
| Erkel,
Ferenc |
Musician |
|
Ernest |
Duke
of Brunswick |
|
Ernst, Max |
Artist |
|
Estrada, Erik |
Actor |
| Euler,
Leonard |
Mathematician and Physicist |
|
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr |
Actor |
| Falk,
Peter |
Actor |
|
Farouk, King |
King
of Egypt |
|
Farrell, Mike |
Actor |
|
Farrow, Mia |
Actress |
| Feld,
Fritz |
Actor |
|
Ferdinand, Archduke |
Emperor of Austria |
|
Ferrer, Jose |
Actor |
|
Field, Ted |
Film
producer |
|
Flynn, Errol |
Actor |
|
Fonda, Henry |
Actor |
|
Forman, Milos |
Film
director |
|
Forster, Edward M. |
Writer |
|
Fouche, Joseph |
Head
of Napoleon's secret police |
| Fox,
Michael J. |
Actor |
|
Franco, Francisco |
Spanish dictator |
|
Frank, Hans |
Governor general of Poland in 1939 |
|
Franklin, Benjamin |
Inventor, writer, diplomat |
|
Frederick the Great |
German emperor |
|
Frederick, John |
Saxon
Elector |
|
Freud, Clement |
Writer, broadcaster |
|
Freud, Sigmund |
Founder of psychoanalysis |
| Gabor,
Zsa Zsa |
Actress |
|
Gardner, Ava |
actress |
|
Gates, Bill |
Microsoft CEO |
|
Gauss, Johann Karl |
Mathematician |
| Genn,
Leo |
Film
maker |
|
George III |
King
of England |
|
Gillespie, John 'Dizzy' |
Trumpet virtuoso |
|
Gladstone, William |
British Prime Minister |
|
Goebbels, Paul Joseph |
Nazi
propagandist & leader |
|
Goethe, Johann |
Writer |
|
Goetz, Bernard |
Subway vigilante |
|
Goffin, Gerry |
Songwriter |
|
Golding, William |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature in 1983 |
|
Goldsmith, Oliver |
Writer |
|
Gorky, Maxim |
Writer |
| Gowdy,
Curt |
Sportscaster |
|
Grace, William |
Father of English cricket |
|
Graham, Billy |
Evangelist |
|
Grant, Ulysses S |
US President, Civil War
General |
|
Gregory VI |
Pope |
|
Grimm, Jakob |
Writer |
|
Grouthausen |
Minister to Charles XII |
|
Guevara, Che |
Political revolutionary |
|
Guidry, Ron |
Baseball pitcher |
|
Guillevic, Eugene |
French writer |
|
Haldeman, H.R. |
Nixon
chief of staff |
|
Harrison, Rex |
Actor |
| Hart,
Sir Basil |
British military historian |
|
Hawking, Stephen |
Physicist |
|
Heinlen, Robert |
Writer |
| Henry
V of Agincourt |
King
of England |
| Henry
VIII |
King
of England |
|
Henry, O. |
Writer |
|
Hepburn, Katherine |
Actress |
|
Herbert, A.P. |
Writer |
|
Hilton, Barron |
Founder of Hilton Hotels |
|
Hinckley, John |
Attempted to assassinate Reagan |
| Ho
Chi Minh |
Vietnamese political & military leader |
|
Hoffman, Kurt |
German film director |
|
Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
US
Supreme court justice |
|
Holmes, Priest |
NFL Pro football player |
|
Holyfield, Evander |
World
heavyweight boxing champion |
| Hope,
Bob |
Comedian, actor |
|
Horowitz, Vladimir |
musician |
|
Houdini, Harry |
Escape artist |
|
Hoyle, Fred |
Astronomer |
|
Hunter, Charles |
World's fastest speaker |
| Huss,
John |
Religious reformer |
|
Huston, John |
Film
director |
| Ibsen,
Henrik |
Playwright |
|
Innocent III |
Pope |
|
Irzykowski |
Polish writer |
|
Isabella |
Queen of Spain, sponsored
Columbus' discovery of America |
| Ivan
the Terrible |
Russian emperor |
|
Jackson, Kate |
Actress |
|
Jaffe, Sam |
Actor |
|
Jefferson, Thomas |
US
founding father & 3rd president |
| Jehan,
Shah |
Indian ruler |
| John
I |
King
of England |
| John
Paul I |
Pope |
| John
Paul II |
Pope |
|
Johnson, Don |
Actor |
|
Jolson, Al |
Actor, singer |
|
Jones, Bobby |
Golfer |
|
Jones, Ernest |
Psychoanalyst |
|
Jones, James |
Writer |
|
Jonson, Ben |
English playwright |
|
Joseph II |
Holy
Roman emperor |
|
Jourdan, Louis |
Actor |
|
Joyce, William |
WWII
traitor - Lord Haw Haw |
| Kadar,
Janos |
Hungarian communist leader |
| Kahn,
Leo |
Violinist |
|
Kapitza, A.P. |
Physicist |
|
Kastner, Tony |
Skier |
|
Kedors, Andre |
French writer |
|
Kennedy, John F, Jr. |
Son
of President John F Kennedy |
|
Keynes, John |
Economist |
|
Kissinger, Henry |
Diplomat & statesman, US secretary of state |
| Klee,
Paul |
Artist |
|
Klitschko, Vitaly |
Heavyweight boxer |
|
Klitschko, Vladimir |
Heavyweight boxer |
| Knox,
Chuck |
Pro
football coach |
|
Kochanowski, Jan |
Polish poet |
|
Komack, Jimmy |
Film
producer |
|
Kostabi, Mark |
Artist |
|
Kreskin |
Magician |
| Krupa,
gene |
Jazz
drummer |
|
Kubrick, Stanley |
Film
director |
| La
Fayette |
French military leader |
| La
Guardia, Fiorello |
NY
mayor |
|
Lackland, John |
King
of England |
|
Landsbergis, Vytautas |
Lithuanian president |
| Law,
Andrew Bonar |
British Prime Minister |
|
Leach, Robin |
Television host |
|
Leary, Timothy |
Professor & LSD guru |
| Lee,
Belinda |
Actress |
| Lee,
Robert E. |
US
Civil War General |
|
Leibnitz, Gottfried |
Thinker |
|
Lelewel, Joachim |
Polish historian |
| Lendl,
Ivan |
Tennis player |
|
Lenin, Vladimir |
First
Soviet leader |
|
Lennon, John |
Musician |
| Leo X |
Pope |
| Leo
XIII |
Pope |
|
Lermontov, Mikhail |
Writer |
|
Letterman, David |
Late-night talk show host |
|
Levin, Bernard |
Writer |
|
Lewis, Lennox |
Heavyweight boxing champion |
|
Lewis, Sinclair |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1930 |
|
Liebnecht, Karl |
German socialist leader |
| Lill,
John |
Classical pianist |
|
Lincoln, Abraham |
16th
US President |
|
Lomonosov, Mikhail |
Russian chemist & linguist |
|
London, Jack |
Writer |
| Lorre,
Peter |
Actor |
| Louis
VI |
French king |
| Loy,
Myrna |
Actress |
|
Luther, Martin |
Religious reformer |
|
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
Italian statesman & political theorist |
|
Madison, James |
US President |
|
Madonna |
singer, actress |
|
Magritte, Rene |
Artist |
|
Manson, Charles |
Mass
murder & cultist |
| Marat,
Jean Paul |
French revolutionary |
|
Marceau, Marcel |
Mime |
|
Marcos, Ferdinand |
Philippine president |
|
Marks, Johnny |
Music
writer |
|
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1982 |
|
Marshall, Mike |
Baseball player |
|
Martin, Steve |
Actor, comedian |
| Marx,
Karl |
Political theorist |
|
Matejko, Jan |
Polish painter |
|
Mathers, Jerry |
Actor |
|
Matthau, Walter |
Actor |
|
McClellan, George |
US
Civil War General |
|
Mcgoohan, Patrick |
Actor |
|
Melville, Hermann |
Writer |
|
Mendeleyev, Dmitri |
Russian chemist & developer
of the Periodic Table of the Elements |
|
Mendelssohn, Felix |
Composer |
|
Menuhin, Yehudi |
Violinist |
|
Mickiewicz, Adam |
Polish writer |
|
Milland, Ray |
Actor |
| Milne,
Alan Alexander |
Writer |
|
Miranda, Carmen |
Actress |
|
Montand, Yves |
Actor |
|
Montgomery, Bernard |
British WWII general |
|
Moore, Patrick |
Astronomer, author |
|
Morricone, Ennio |
musician |
|
Moussorgsky, Modest |
Russian composer |
|
Muggeridge, Malcolm |
Writer |
| Murat,
Joachim |
French general |
|
Murphy, Dale |
Baseball player |
|
Murray, Roseanne |
Actress |
|
Nabokov, Vladimir |
Writer |
| Nash,
Graham |
Singer |
|
Nasser, Gamal Abdul |
Egyptian president |
| Navoi,
Alisher |
Uzbek
poet and philosopher |
|
Nelson, Willie |
Singer |
|
Newman, Paul |
Actor |
|
Newton, Isaac |
English scientist & mathematician |
|
Nimitz, Chester |
US
WWII admiral |
|
Oistrakh, David |
Violinist |
| Ono,
Yoko |
Artist, musician |
|
Oppenheimer, Robert |
Physicist |
|
Orwell, George |
Writer |
|
O'Sullivan, Maureen |
Actress |
|
Oswald, Lee Harvey |
Kennedy assassin |
| Ovett,
Steve |
Olympic runner |
|
Pascal, Blaise |
Mathematician |
|
Pasternak, Boris |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1958 |
| Pauli,
Wolfgang |
Nobel
Prize winner in physics, 1945 |
|
Peppard, George |
Actor |
|
Peron, Juan |
President of Argentina |
|
Pershing, John |
US
WWI general |
|
Persinger, Louis |
Violinist |
|
Phish! |
music group:
Trey
Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Page O'Connell |
|
Piatagorsky, Gregor |
Cellist, sponsor of the Piatagorsky cup in chess |
|
Piccard, Auguste |
Developer of the Bathyscape deep-sea submergible |
|
Pidgeon, Walter |
Actor |
| Poe,
Edgar Allen |
Writer |
|
Poincare, Henri |
Mathematician |
|
Poniatowski, Stanislaw II |
Last
king of Poland |
|
Potemkin, Grigory |
Russian statesman & military leader under Catherine the Great |
|
Powell, Mike |
World
long jump champion |
|
Priestley, Joseph |
Philosopher |
|
Pritkin, Carol |
Actress |
|
Prokofiev, Sergei |
Composer |
|
Prominski, Marian |
Writer |
|
Pudovkin, Vsevold |
Filmmaker (director of "Chess Fever") |
|
Pushkin, Alexander |
Russian national poet |
|
Putrament, Jerzy |
Writer |
| Quaid,
Dennis |
Actor |
|
Quinn, Anthony |
Actor |
|
Rabelais, Francois |
Writer |
|
Radjenovic, Boris |
Olympic bobsled pilot |
|
Randall, Tony |
Actor |
|
Rathbone, Basil |
Actor |
|
Reddy, Helen |
Singer |
|
Rembrandt |
Artist |
| Repin |
Artist |
|
Ricci, Ruggiero |
Composer |
| Rice,
Tim |
Lyricist |
|
Richard I |
King
of England (Richard the Lion Heart) |
|
Richelieu, Armand |
Catholic Cardinal |
|
Richter, Sviatoslav |
Composer |
|
Rimsky-Korsakov,N. |
Composer |
|
Riordan, Richard |
Los
Angeles mayor |
|
Robbins, Tim |
Actor |
|
Roberts, Julia |
Actress |
|
Robespierre, Max |
French political writer |
|
Robinson, Sir Robert |
Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry, 1947 |
|
Roget, Peter Mark |
Creator of the thesaurus |
|
Romack |
Magician |
|
Romero, Cesar |
Actor |
|
Roosevelt, Teddy |
26th
US President |
|
Rosenthal, Moriz |
Concert pianist |
|
Rossellini, Roberto |
Film
director |
|
Rothschild, Baron Albert |
Financier |
|
Rousseau, Jean |
French philosopher |
|
Rubinstein, Artur |
Pianist |
|
Rushdie, Salman |
Writer |
|
Ruskin, John |
Writer and art critic |
|
Russell, Bertrand |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1950 |
| Sadat,
Anwar |
President of Egypt |
| Saint
John, Jill |
Actress |
|
Salinger, Pierre |
Journalist |
|
Sarandon, Susan |
Actress |
|
Scherer, Gene "Ivan" |
Filmmaker |
|
Schmidt, Helmut |
German chancellor |
|
Schumann, Robert |
Composer |
| Schwarzenegger, Arnold |
actor, bodybuilder, Governor of California |
|
Scott, George C. |
Actor |
|
Scott, Robert |
British explorer |
|
Selleck, Tom |
Actor |
|
Sevastianov, Vitaly |
Soyuz
cosmonaut |
|
Shakespeare, William |
English playwright |
|
Sharif, Omar |
Actor |
| Shaw,
George Bernard |
Writer |
|
Shostakovich,Dmitri |
Russian composer |
|
Sienkiewicz, Henryk |
Nobel
Prize in literature, 1905 |
|
Signoret, Simone |
Actress |
| Sim,
Alastair |
Actor |
|
Sinatra, Frank |
Singer, Actor |
|
Singer, Isaac |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature |
|
Smith, Kenny |
Actor |
|
Smith, Will |
Actor, musician |
|
Smithers, William |
Actor |
|
Sobieski, Jan |
King
of Poland |
|
Soddy, Sir Frederick |
Nobel
Prize winner in chemistry, 1921 |
| Sorel,
Agnes |
Mistress of French King Charles VII |
|
Starr, Ringo |
Musician |
|
Steinbeck, John |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1962 |
|
Stern, Howard |
Radio
and TV personality |
|
Stern, Isaac |
Violinist |
|
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Writer |
|
Stewart, Jimmy |
Actor |
| Stil,
Andre |
French writer |
| Sting |
Rock
musician |
|
Stolper, Alexander |
Soviet film director |
|
Strait, Hirum |
Magician |
|
Strauss, Richard |
Composer |
|
Streisand, Barbra |
Singer, actress |
|
Strumph-Wojtkiewicz, Stanislaw |
author |
|
Sutton, Willie |
Bank
robber |
|
Suvorov, Alexander |
Russian military commander |
|
Tadeusz Kosciuszko |
Polish military officer |
|
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de |
French Statesman and Diplomat |
|
Tamerlane |
Mongol ruler of the 14th Century |
|
Temple, Shirley |
Child
actress & later US ambassador |
|
Tennyson, Alfred |
Writer |
| Tevis,
Walter |
Writer |
|
Thumb, Tom |
Circus midget for P. T. Barnum |
| Tito,
Josip |
Yugoslavian leader |
|
Tolstoy, Leo |
Writer |
|
Tracy, Spencer |
Actor |
|
Trotsky, Leon |
Russian revolutionist |
|
Tunney, Gene |
Heavyweight boxer |
|
Turing, Alan |
Mathematician & father of computer science |
|
Turner, Lana |
Actress |
|
Tussaud, Marie |
Founded London wax museum |
| Tzara,
Tristan |
Writer |
| Ulam,
Stanislav |
Topologist |
|
Ulvaeus, Bjorn |
Musician (Abba) |
| Vadim,
Roger |
Film
director |
| Valee,
Rudy |
Singer, actor |
|
Verdi, Giuseppe |
Italian composer |
|
Villa-Lobos, Heitor |
Composer |
|
Villon, Jacques |
Artist and brother of Marcel Duchamp |
| Vint,
Jesse |
Actor |
|
Voltaire |
French philosopher, scientist |
|
Vonnegut, Kurt |
Writer |
|
Walker, John |
Runner |
|
Wallace, Alfred Russel |
biologist, co-discoverer of
natural selection |
|
Walsh, Bill |
Professional football coach & broadcaster |
|
Walton, Bill |
Basketball player & commentator |
|
Wankowicz, Melchoir |
Polish writer |
|
Waugh, Evelyn |
Writer |
|
Wayne, John |
Actor |
| Wazyk,
Adam |
Polish writer |
|
Welles, Orson |
Actor
& director |
|
Wells, H.G. |
Writer |
|
Whiteman, Paul |
Jazz
musician |
|
Wilder, Billy |
Film
director |
|
William the Conqueror |
Norman invader of England |
|
Willmers, Rudolf |
Concert pianist |
|
Wilson, Woodrow |
28th
US President |
|
Windom, William |
Actor |
|
Winslow, Kellen |
Football player |
|
Wittgenstein, Ludwig |
Austrian/English philosopher |
|
Wolsey, Thomas |
Catholic Cardinal |
|
Wroblewski, Walery |
Polish general |
|
Wronski, Tadeusz |
Polish composer and violinist |
| Yao
Sui |
Chinese Emperor |
| Yeats,
William |
Nobel
Prize winner in literature, 1923 |
|
Zatopek, Emil |
Olympic runner |
| Zweig,
Stefan |
Writer |
Material on this page provided by Kelly
Atkins and many others
More
Famous People Who Played Chess
by Russell Miller, Feb 2005
Army officers who were in Pacific Northwest
before the Civil War: The Army officers listed below are mentioned in
1898 article about Seattle Chess as “included chess-playing among their
accomplishments but no record of the fact (that they played in Pacific NW)
has come down to us.” Search of Internet turns of the following...
-
Ulysses
(Hiram) S. Grant (1822-1885) West Point Class 1843 He was at Fort
Vancouver, WA 1852-1853
-
Melancthon T. Burke (1831-1919) says he played chess with Ulysses S. Grant
in Galena, IL. per a website about Grant. There is a picture of Grant
playing chess with Mrs W.B. Dinsmore on a chess website.
-
George
Edward Pickett (1825-1875) at Bellingham Bay and San Juan Islands (1859
Pig War) about 1860-1861. He attended West Point same time as McClellan
class of 1846, Pickett was last in the class of 59 members.
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August
Vanlentine Kautz (1828- 1896) In Oregon Territory in 1856. West Point
Class of 1852. In Pacific NW 1852-1861. Died in Seattle, WA
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Philip
Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) West Point Class 1853 Pacific NW abt1855
-
George
Brinton McClellan (1826-1885) West Point Class 1846 In Pacific NW
1853&1854 (at foot of Lake Chelan Sept 25, 1853)
-
Chess set and box owned by McClellan during Civil War.
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William
Selby Harney (1800-1889) Puget Sound Commander 1858-1860 Did not go to
West Point.
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