Famous People Who Played Chess
Chess isn’t just for scholars…some very famous people loved chess, too!
Leaders & Politicians:
Show Business:
Others:
John Adams
Humphrey Bogart
Albert Einstein
James Monroe
Charlie Chaplin
Billy Graham
Thomas Jefferson
John Wayne
Napoleon
Ben Franklin
Marlon Brando
Bonaparte
General Robert E. Lee
Katherine Hepburn
Adolph Hitler
Abraham Lincoln
Marilyn Monroe
Grover Cleveland
Madonna
Sports:
Theodore Roosevelt
Woody Allen
Larry Bird
Queen Victoria
Henry Fonda
Dominic Hasek
William H. Taft
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Lennox Lewis
Woodrow Wilson
Willie Nelson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bill Clinton
Frank Sinatra
Evander Holyfield
Henry Kissinger
Bill Cosby
Anna Kournikova
Spiro Agnew
Ben Affleck
Barry Sanders
Fidel Castro
Bono [U2]
Anatole Lenin
Bob Dylan
Winston Churchill
Howard Stern
Barbra Streisand
Bjorn Ulvaeus [ABBA]
Sting
Lauren Bacall
Dave Barry
Ludwig van Beethoven
Press Contact: Laura Slay (314) 504-0081