This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.

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Famous people connected with chess

The people in this list are famous in other areas of activity, but are known to have played chess, or have declared an interest in the game, or created works of art and literature in which the game is prominently featured. • Ben Affleck • Claude Akins • Alan Alda • Alfonso X of Castile (the Wise) • Sholem Aleichem • Woody Allen • Atahualpa • George Airy • Martin Amis • Konrad von Ammenhausen • LaVar Arrington • Isaac Asimov • Szymon Askenazy • Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Lew Ayres • Lauren Bacall • Newell Banks (US, World American Checkers (English Draughts) Champion 1887–1977) • John Barrymore • Lionel Barrymore • Menachem Begin • Clare Benedict • Móric Beňovský • Polly Bergen • Ingmar Bergman • Humphrey Bogart • Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French) • Bono • Charles Boyer • Marlon Brando • Franz Brentano • Mel Brooks • Zbigniew Brzezinski • Henry Thomas Buckle (English historian) • Tony Buzan • John Cage • Nicolas Cage • Canute the Great (King of England, Denmark and Norway) • Gerolamo Cardano • Roberto Carnevale • Ludovico Carracci • Lewis Carroll • Fidel Castro • Miguel de Cervantes • Jacobus de Cessolis • Wilt Chamberlain • Charlie Chaplin • Charlemagne • Charles XII of Sweden • Aldo Clementi • Joseph Conrad • Aleister Crowley (occultist) • Bobby Darin • Henry Darrow • Steve Davis • Olivia de Havilland • Eugène Delacroix • Dustin Diamond • Marlene Dietrich • Anurag Dikshit • Gustave Doré • Tony Dow • Marcel Duchamp • Albert Einstein • Arpad Elo • Paul Erdős • Erik Estrada • Leonhard Euler • Abraham ibn Ezra • Douglas Fairbanks • Morgan Fairchild • Peter Falk • Richard Farleigh • José Ferrer • Richard Feynman • Heidi Fleiss • Henry Fonda • Jamie Foxx • Hans Frank • Benjamin Franklin • Stephen Fry • Zsa Zsa Gabor • Jeremy Gaige • Ava Gardner • Carl Friedrich Gauss • Johann Wolfgang Goethe • Witold Gombrowicz • Che Guevara • Richard K. Guy • GZA (American hip hop artist) • Yehuda Halevi • Woody Harrelson • Dominik Hašek • Sefer Hasidim • Katharine Hepburn • David Hume • Carl Icahn • Pope Innocent III • Karol Irzykowski • Moses Isserles • Kate Jackson • Thomas Jefferson • Pope John Paul II • Mór Jókai • Franz Kafka • Carmen Kass • Wolfgang von Kempelen • Omar Khayyám • Ephraim Kishon (satirist, Kishon Chesster chess computer) • Alfred Kreymborg • Stanley Kubrick • Edmund Landau • Yosef Lapid • Adrien-Marie Legendre • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz • Stanisław Lem • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin • Pope Leo XIII • Lennox Lewis • Logic • Myrna Loy • Samuel Loyd • Madonna • Maimonides (Rambam) • Steve Martin • Karl Marx • Jerry Mathers • Henri Matisse • Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier • Dmitri Mendeleev • Moses Mendelssohn • Adam Mickiewicz • Abraham de Moivre • Patrick Moore • Rob Morgan • Vladimir Nabokov • Daniel Negreanu • John von Neumann • Victor Niederhoffer • José Ortega y Gasset • Grigori Perelman • Gregor Piatigorsky • Józef Piłsudski • Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin • Sergei Prokofiev • Alexander Pushkin • Anthony Quinn • Rashi • Basil Rathbone • Man Ray • Rembrandt • Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu • Keanu Reeves • Julia Roberts • Mike Romanoff • Albert Salomon von Rothschild • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Bertrand Russell • RZA • Saladin • Jonathan Sarfati (Australian scientist and author) • Arnold Schwarzenegger • George C. Scott (US actor) • Nathan Sharansky • Will Smith • Raymond Smullyan • Juan María Solare (Argentine composer & pianist) • George Soros • Howard Stern • Sting • Theresa of Avila (the patron saint of chess players) • Peter Thiel • Josip Broz Tito • Leo Tolstoy • Roland Topor • Alan Turing • Queen Victoria • Marco Girolamo Vida • Jacques Villon • Billy Wilder • George Washington • John Wayne • Boaz Weinstein • H. G. Wells • Guy Williams • Rainn Wilson • Charles Wreford-Brown • Wu-Tang Clan • Ho Chi Minh • Henri IV • Frederick the Great • Leonardo da Vinci • King Louis XIII • Ferdinand Foch • Robert Koch • William Windom (actor) • Yoshiharu Habu(President of Japan Shogi Association)

Fictional characters

The people in this list are characters in fictional media depicted playing chess.

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