- male, deceased (1995)
- Marion Tinsley is considered the greatest checkers player who ever lived. He was world champion from 1955–1958 and 1975–1991. Tinsley never lost...
- male, 53 years old
- Ron "Suki" King (born 1956) is a checkers player from Saint George, Barbados. He has won United States titles and a World Championship Title at the...
- male
- Alan Miller is a pioneering and influential figure in the video game industry. He was an early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games...
- male, deceased (1998)
- Don Lafferty (1933-1998) was a Grandmaster checkers (British English: draughts) player. In 1982 he defeated Derek Oldbury for the World GAYP (Go as...
- male, deceased (1993)
- Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 - April 4, 1993) was a U.S. architect and the inventor of the board game Scrabble in 1938. In the early 1930s,...
- male, deceased (1999)
- Asa Long (1904 - 1999) was an important figure in English draughts generally called checkers in his native USA.
- male, deceased (1975)
- Christopher Strachey (1916-1975) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in...
- male, deceased (2000)
- Pierre Ghestem (born February 14 1922 - died on April 11 2000) was a French bridge and checkers player. In 1947 he became the world champion in...
- male, deceased (1974)
- Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov was an eminent Soviet chess player.
- male, deceased (1977)
- Newell William Banks was an American checkers and chess player. Banks played his first game of blindfold checkers at age five years and six months...
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