List of amateur chess players
Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess.
; Woody Allen
; Humphrey Bogart
; Lewis Carroll
; Charlie Chaplin
; Marcel Duchamp
; Leonhard Euler
; Benjamin Franklin
; Stephen Fry
; John Paul II
; Stanley Kubrick
; Heath Ledger
; Vladimir Lenin
; Vladimir Nabokov
; Napoleon
; Edgar Allan Poe
; Serge Prokofiev
; Howard Stern
; Leo Tolstoy
; Alan Turing
; John Wayne
; H. G. Wells