Category
page 1American chess players
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Susan Polgar
Hungarian chess player (born 1969)
Frank Marshall
American chess player

Samuel Reshevsky
American chess player

Gata Kamsky
American chess player
Yasser Seirawan
American chess player
Gordon Hayward
American basketball player
Edward Lasker
German-American chess player (1885-1981)
Lev Alburt
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster

Alexander Onischuk
Ukrainian-American chess player
William Windom
American actor (1923–2012)
Irina Levitina
Russian-born American chess and bridge player
Anna Zatonskih
Ukrainian-born American chess player
Alex Yermolinsky
American chess player
Dan Harrington
American poker player (born 1945)
Roman Dzindzichashvili
Soviet-Israeli-American chess player

Boris Gulko
Soviet-American chess player
Dorsa Derakhshani
chess player
Kenneth Rogoff
economist and chess player
Walter Browne
American poker and chess player (1949–2015)
Joel Benjamin
American chess grandmaster
Bob Ferguson
Governor of Washington since 2025
Gregory Kaidanov
Ukrainian-American chess player
Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya
Soviet-born American chess player
Yury Shulman
Belarusian-American chess grandmaster
Alexander Shabalov
American chess player (born 1967)
Nick de Firmian
American chess player
Herman Steiner
American chess player (1905-1955)
Boris Avrukh
Israeli chess grandmaster
Nicolas Rossolimo
Chess player (1910–1975)
Larry Fitzgerald
American football player (born 1983)
Anatoly Lein
Soviet-American chess player (1931–2018)
Leonid Shamkovich
American chess player of Russian origin (1923–2005)
Joshua Waitzkin
American chess player
Gregory Serper
Uzbekistani-American chess player
Paul Felix Schmidt
Estonian chess player and chemist (1916–1984)
Zhou Jianchao
Chinese chess grandmaster

Alexander Goldin
Russian-American chess player
Andrea Botez
Canadian-American chess player and Twitch streamer
İldar İbrahimof
Russian-American chess player
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz
Polish chess player (1963–2006)

Oscar Chajes
Austrian-American chess player
Jonathan Tisdall
American-Norwegian chess player and journalist
Maxim Dlugy
Russian-American chess player
Andrew Soltis
American chess player
John Leonard Watson
American chess player (1951-)
Alexander Ivanov
Soviet-born American chess grandmaster
Vasik Rajlich
American-Czech chess player
Jeremy Silman
American chess player and writer (1954–2023)
Bruce Pandolfini
American chess author, teacher, and coach
Igor Novikov
Ukrainian-American chess grandmaster
Julio Kaplan
Argentine-born Puerto Rican US grandmaster
John Fedorowicz
American chess player
James Tarjan
American chess grandmaster

Peter Biyiasas
Greek chess player
Tal Shaked
American chess player

Lisa Lane
American chess player (1933–2024)
Dmitry Gurevich
Russian-American chess player
Albert Kapengut
chess player
Anjelina Belakovskaia
Ukrainian-born American chess player