Thursday, October 1, 2009

Famous Chess Players

No...I don't mean grandmasters, but people who are/were famous in other disciplines:
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/famous.htm

Some notable names:
- John Adams, US president
- Ben Affleck, actor
- Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria
- Alan Alda, actor
- Woody Allen, actor/producer/director
- Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher
- Antonio Banderas, actor
- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
- David Blaine, magician
- Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I
- Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor
- Barry Bonds, baseball player
- Bono, singer (U2)
- Richard Branson, entrepreneur
- Mel Brooks, producer/actor
- Kobe Bryant, basketball player
- Nicholas Cage, actor
- Lewis Carroll, writer
- Jimmy Carter, US president
- Bill Cartwright, basketball player/coach
- Fidel Castro, Cuban president
- Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player
- Charlie Chaplin, actor
- Charlemagne, French leader
- Ray Charles, musician
- Anton Chekhov, dramatist
- Cher, singer
- Frederic Chopin, pianist
- Winston Churchill, British PM
- Grover Cleveland, US president
- Christopher Columbus, explorer
- Bill Cosby, actor
- Tom Cruise, actor
- Leonardo da Vinci, scientist/artist
- Salvador Dali, artist
- Matt Damon, actor
- Ted Danson, actor
- Neil Diamond, singer
- Charles Dickens, writer
- Albert Einstein, scientist
- Elizabeth I and II, queens of England
- Roger Federer, tennis player
- Ian Fleming, author
- Michael J. Fox, actor
- Jamie Foxx, actor
- Benjamin Franklin, politician/inventor
- Sigmond Freud, phychiatrist
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress

AND MANY MANY MORE!

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