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Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Vasily Smyslov
Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
Susan Polgar
Hungarian chess player (born 1969)
Paul Keres
Estonian chess player and sportsperson (1916–1975)
François-André Danican Philidor
French composer and chess player (1726-1795)
Adolf Anderssen
German chess champion, after Paul Morphy (1858-1860), second unofficial world chess champion (1851-1858, 1860-1865, 1867-1871), chess publicist
Richard Réti
Czechoslovakian chess player (1889–1929)
Yuri Averbakh
Russian chess grandmaster and author (1922–2022)
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
Irish writer and dramatist (1878-1957)
Pal Benko
Hungarian-American chess player
Sam Loyd
American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)
Alexander Rueb
Dutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official (1882–1959)
Semyon Alapin
Russian chess player (1856-1923)
John Nunn
English chess player
Tim Krabbé
Dutch journalist and novelist (born 1943)
Ottó Bláthy
Hungarian mechanical engineer (1860–1939)
Ashot Nadanian
chess player
Oldřich Duras
Czech chess player (1882–1957)
Henry Dudeney
puzzlist and mathematical games designer (1857–1930)
Alexander Kazantsev
Soviet science fiction writer and ufologist (1906–2002)
Richard K. Guy
British mathematician (1916-2020)
Jean Dufresne
German chess player and chess composer (1829–1893)
Alexander Petrov
Russian chess player (1794-1867)
Alexey Troitsky
Russian chess player (1866-1942)
Genrikh Kasparyan
Armenian chess player (1910-1995)
Noam Elkies
American mathematician
Johann Berger
Austrian chess player (1845–1933)
Bernhard Horwitz
German-British chess player (1807–1885)
Dawid Przepiórka
Polish chess player
André Chéron
French chess player (1895–1980)
Hermanis Matisons
Latvian chess player (1894-1932)
Ercole del Rio
Italian chess player
Yochanan Afek
Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter
Josef Kling
German-born British chess player (1811-1876)
Nikolai Grigoriev
Russian chess player (1895–1938)
Leonid Kubbel
Russian chess player (1891-1942)
Ladislav Prokeš
Czech chess player (1884-1966)
Erich Zepler
Electronics engineer, Chess problemist (1898–1980)
Friedrich Amelung
Baltic German industrialist, chess player and historian (1842–1909)
Lorentzos Mavilis
Greek poet and chess problem composer (1860-1912)
Nenad Petrović
Croatian chess composer
Vitaly Chekhover
Russian chess player (1908-1965)
Joseph Plachutta
Slovene-descent Austrian chess composer
Wolfgang Heidenfeld
South African chess player (1911–1981)
Gia Nadareishvili
Soviet chess player (1921–1991)
Alain Campbell White
American botanist and chess composer (1880-1951)
Karel Traxler
Czech chess player (1866–1936)
Ilya Shumov
Russian chess player (1819-1881)
Beniamino Vergani
Italian chess player (1863–1927)
Marian Wróbel
Polish chess problemist
Edith Baird
British chess composer (1859-1924)
Oskar Korschelt
German chemist and Go player (1853–1940)
Ernest Pogosyants
Soviet chess problemist (1935–1990)
Milan Vukcevich
Serbian chess player (1937–2003)
Comins Mansfield
British chess composer (1896-1984)
Frédéric Lazard
French chess player (1883-1948)
Henri Rinck
French chess composer (1870–1952)
Thomas Rayner Dawson
British chess writer (1889–1951)
Jan Rusinek
chess composer
John Roycroft
British chess composer