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players, writers, administrators and personalities who have been recognized for their skills, achievements or contributions to the game as identified by various specific sources.


People recognized by bridge organizations


American Contract Bridge League


Hall of Fame

The first bridge Hall of Fame was inaugurated by ''
The Bridge World ''The Bridge World'' (TBW), the oldest continuously published magazine about contract bridge, was founded in 1929 by Ely Culbertson. It has since been regarded as the game's principal journal, publicizing technical advances in bidding and the pla ...
'' in 1964 and invested nine members between then and 1966 after which it ceased sponsorship. The
American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain th ...
adopted the concept to recognize the achievements and contributions of those residing in its territory (USA, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda) and inaugurated its own Hall of Fame in 1995 by accepting the original nine and adding eight others that year. Annually thereafter, new members have been added in as many as three award categories. * Open Award – "living individuals who have achieved prominence in the game of bridge and have an outstanding tournament record" CBL Hall of Fame Charterbr>"American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame Operating Procedures"
. ACBL. March 2011. Retrieved 2014-12-15. * von Zedtwitz Award – "living or deceased individuals who have achieved prominence in the game of bridge and have an outstanding tournament record but who may not have been in the limelight for a significant period of time" (20 people in 19 years to 2014) * Blackwood Award – "individuals who have contributed greatly to the game of bridge without necessarily being world class players" (19 people to 2014) In 2008, ACBL established the Foundation for the Preservation and Advancement of Bridge (FPAB) "to support the preservation of bridge history, to recognize individuals for their excellence and service to the game of bridge and to inspire the participation of youth through scholarships and grants."


Most influential personalities

In 2012, the
American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain th ...
celebrated the 75th anniversary of its creation by the merger of the American Bridge League and the United States Bridge Association in October 1937. In partial recognition, the League published a list of the 52 most influential personalities during its history.The ACBL announced its selections in four issues of its membership magazine ''Bridge Bulletin''. February 2012, pp. 22–25. March 2012, pp. 22–25. April 2012, pp. 14–17. May 2012, p. 63. Criteria included: * contributions to bidding theory that have stood the test of time; * contributions to bridge literature of enduring importance; * contributions to law, regulation or administration making bridge more accessible or more fun; * charisma that has broadened the appeal of bridge to non-players. Selections were not limited to ACBL members or North American residents.


Player of the Year

The Player of the Year is awarded to the ACBL player accumulating the most platinum masterpoints in the calendar year.


Canadian Bridge Federation – Hall of Fame

The Canadian Bridge Federation (CBF) is the national bridge organization for Canada and established th
CBF Hall of Fame
in 2010 to recognize the achievements and contributions of Canadian bridge personalities.


European Bridge League – Awards and Distinctions

The
European Bridge League The European Bridge League is a confederation of National Bridge Federations (NBFs) that organize the card game of contract bridge in European nations. In turn the EBL organizes bridge competition at the European level. It is a member of the Europ ...
(EBL) is a confederation of national bridge organizations for European countries, established 1947.
Honorary Titles

Plaques
* Medals. Since 1975, the EBL recognizes distinguished bridge people.


World Bridge Federation – Awards and Distinctions

The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the world
governing body A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ...
for bridge, established in 1958.
Women Stars

WBF Master Point Records
including titles such as "World Grand Master" (directory; some lists maintained infrequently or not at all)
Medals
(to 2006)
Hall of Fame
(inactive)
Plaques & Trophies
(to 2006)
Youth Awards
(to 2006)


People recognized in bridge books

Numerous biographical entries are contained in the ''Encyclopedia of Bridge'' (1935), the various editions of ''
The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge ''The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge'' (OEB) presents comprehensive information on the card game contract bridge with limited information on related games and on playing cards. It is "official" in reference to the American Contract Bridge League ...
'' (1964–2011), ''The Bridge Players' Encyclopedia'' (1967), and in the ''British Bridge Almanack'' (2004). In addition, the following books provide biographical information about bridge people as of the date of publication.


''Aces All'' by Guy Ramsey (1955)

In the foreword of ''Aces All'', Ramsey writes that "it is a book about some, though by no means all, of the leading players of today and the immediate yesterday..." He presents biographies of the following (all either British or playing in Britain): *
Leslie Dodds Leslie William Dodds (2 February 1903 – 1975) was an English international bridge player and, by profession, an import-export merchant, from London. He was a member of the British team which won the Bermuda Bowl in 1955. In his youth he was a ches ...
* Harold Franklin *
Nico Gardener Nico Gardener (né Goldinger, 27 January 1906 – 10 December 1989) was a British international bridge player and a leading bridge teacher in London and on cruise ships.
* Maurice Harrison-Gray * Ewart Kempson *
Kenneth Konstam Kenneth Walter "Konnie" Konstam (born Adolf Walter Konstam; 25 February 1906 – 21 May 1968) was an English international bridge player who won seven international titles. In 1955 he played on the only Great Britain team to win the Bermuda Bowl (t ...
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Richard Lederer Richard Lederer (born May 26, 1938) is an American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed "the Wizard of Idiom," ...
* Iain Macleod *
Rixi Markus "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.
* J. C. H. Marx *
Adam Meredith Adam Theodore "Plum" Meredith (16 June 1913 – 30 January 1976) was a British professional bridge player and world tournament champion.Truscott (1976) Early life Meredith was born in Bangor, County Down, Ireland, (now Northern Ireland), to H ...
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Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...
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Boris Schapiro Boris Schapiro (22 August 1909 – 1 December 2002) was a British international bridge player. He was a Grandmaster of the World Bridge Federation, and the only player to have won both the Bermuda Bowl (the world championship for national teams) ...
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Jim Sharples Jim or JIM may refer to: * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy * OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * ''Ji ...
* Bob Sharples * S. J. (Skid) Simon * Dr. Paul Stern *
Joel Tarlo Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to: * Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name. * Joel (surname), a surname * Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazili ...
* Louis Tarlo


''The Bridge Immortals'' by Victor Mollo (1968)

''The Bridge Immortals'' gives brief biographies of the "greatest bridge people living today", listed here in alphabetical order. *
Walter Avarelli Walter Avarelli (3 June 1912 – 1987) was an Italian bridge player, a member of the famous Blue Team, with whom he won nine Bermuda Bowls and three World Team Olympiads from 1956 to 1972. Avarelli was born in Rome and became a judge there. He fi ...
* B. Jay Becker *
Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...
* David Berah * Jean Besse *
Massimo D'Alelio Massimo "Mimmo" D'Alelio (1916–1998) was an Italian bridge player. He won 13 world championships with the Italian national Blue Team, playing in partnership with Camillo Pabis Ticci during the second half of his career. D'Alelio was born in Na ...
* Claude Deruy *
Leslie Dodds Leslie William Dodds (2 February 1903 – 1975) was an English international bridge player and, by profession, an import-export merchant, from London. He was a member of the British team which won the Bermuda Bowl in 1955. In his youth he was a ches ...
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Pietro Forquet Pietro Forquet (2 July 1925 – 27 January 2023) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 15 World championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Eugenio Chiaradia, Guglielmo Siniscalco and, for the ...
* Richard L. Frey *
Nico Gardener Nico Gardener (né Goldinger, 27 January 1906 – 10 December 1989) was a British international bridge player and a leading bridge teacher in London and on cruise ships.
* Benito Garozzo *
Fritzi Gordon Fritzi Gordon (1905 or 1916 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman t ...
* Maurice Harrison-Gray *
Dorothy Hayden Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two ...
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Oswald Jacoby Oswald "Ozzie", "Jake" Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time and a key innovator in the game, having helped popularize widely used bi ...
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Pierre Jaïs Pierre Jaïs (13 October 1913 – 24 June 1988) was a French bridge player and writer from Paris. He and his regular partner Roger Trézel were on the France team that won the inaugural World Team Olympiad in Turin, 1960, and they won the inaugura ...
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Edgar Kaplan Edgar Kaplan (April 18, 1925 – September 7, 1997) was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, ...
* Norman Kay *
Theodore Lightner Theodore Alexander "Teddy" Lightner (14 September 1893 – November 1981) was an American bridge player. He developed the Lightner double, a bridge bidding convention. Lightner was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and moved to Chicago and later ...
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Paul Lukacs Paul Lukacs (born Lukács Pàl; he, פאול לוקאץ'; 23 April 1918 – 1982) ''Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM)'' was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician, analyst and composer of problems in t ...
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Rixi Markus "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.
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Adam Meredith Adam Theodore "Plum" Meredith (16 June 1913 – 30 January 1976) was a British professional bridge player and world tournament champion.Truscott (1976) Early life Meredith was born in Bangor, County Down, Ireland, (now Northern Ireland), to H ...
* Rafael Munoz *
Camillo Pabis Ticci Camillo Pabis Ticci (1920–2003) was an Italian bridge player. He joined the national Blue Team in 1963 and played in the Bermuda Bowl tournament with Giorgio Belladonna, whose long-time partner Walter Avarelli was unavailable. From 1964 he play ...
* Carl'Alberto Perroux *
Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...
* Alvin Roth *
Boris Schapiro Boris Schapiro (22 August 1909 – 1 December 2002) was a British international bridge player. He was a Grandmaster of the World Bridge Federation, and the only player to have won both the Bermuda Bowl (the world championship for national teams) ...
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Howard Schenken Howard Schenken (September 28, 1903 – February 20, 1979) was an American bridge player, writer, and long-time syndicated bridge columnist. He was from New York City. He won three Bermuda Bowl titles, and set several North American records. Most r ...
* Cornelis Slavenburg * Sam Stayman *
Roger Trézel Roger Trézel (11 May 1918 – 3 November 1986)Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965'. Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. was a French bridge player and writer. He and his long-time regular partner Pierre Jaïs were the first two of ten players ...
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Alan Truscott Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for th ...
* Egmont von Dewitz * Einar Werner


''World Class'' by Marc Smith (1999)

''World Class: conversations with the bridge masters'' features "''the crème de la crème'' of the world of bridge" in their own words. Here is Smith's classification of his interviews. All-time Greats: * John Collings * Benito Garozzo *
Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...
* Per Olof Sundelin *
Dorothy Hayden Truscott Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two ...
Stars of Today: *
Gabriel Chagas Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born 7 December 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player. He was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, World Open Pairs Championship in Geneva 1990, as ...
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Geir Helgemo Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...
* Apolinary Kowalski * Magnus Lindkvist *
Zia Mahmood Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biograp ...
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Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called tri ...
* Andrew Robson * Alfredo Versace Women Stars: *
Sabine Auken Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world maste ...
* Maria Erhart * Karen McCallum * Nicola Smith Rising Stars: * Boye Brogeland * Fred Gitelman * Jason Hackett and Justin Hackett * Morten Lund Madsen Star Writers: * Larry N. Cohen * Eddie Kantar *
Ron Klinger Ron Klinger (born 8 November 1941) is an Australian contract bridge player and a leading English-language bridge writer, the author of more than 70 books on the game. He is an Australian Grand Master and a World Bridge Federation International ...
* Mike Lawrence


''British Bridge Almanack'' by Peter Hasenson (2004)

The Editor's Choice nominations are listed alphabetically as follows: 20 Greatest Players of All Time * B. Jay Becker *
Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...
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Norberto Bocchi Norberto Bocchi (born September 29, 1961 in Parma, Italy) is an Italian bridge player. Bocchi has won five World teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years his regular ...
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Gabriel Chagas Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born 7 December 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player. He was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, World Open Pairs Championship in Geneva 1990, as ...
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Billy Eisenberg William Eisenberg (born September 5, 1937The 1st World Mind Sports Games
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Pietro Forquet Pietro Forquet (2 July 1925 – 27 January 2023) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 15 World championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Eugenio Chiaradia, Guglielmo Siniscalco and, for the ...
* Benito Garozzo *
Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...
* Maurice Harrison-Gray *
Geir Helgemo Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...
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Oswald Jacoby Oswald "Ozzie", "Jake" Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time and a key innovator in the game, having helped popularize widely used bi ...
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Zia Mahmood Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biograp ...
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Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called tri ...
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Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...
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Eric Rodwell Eric Victor Rodwell (born May 1, 1957) is an American professional bridge player. He has won the Bermuda Bowl representing the United States five times and is one of ten players who have won the triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the Wor ...
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Michael Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg (born March 7, 1954) is an American bridge player. Rosenberg was born in New York City, moved to Scotland as a child, and returned to New York in 1978. He lived in New York State with his wife Debbie, also a top player, from 1 ...
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Howard Schenken Howard Schenken (September 28, 1903 – February 20, 1979) was an American bridge player, writer, and long-time syndicated bridge columnist. He was from New York City. He won three Bermuda Bowl titles, and set several North American records. Most r ...
* Tim Seres * Paul Soloway *
Bobby Wolff Robert S. (Bobby) Wolff (born October 14, 1932, San Antonio, Texas) is an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is the only person to win world championships in five different categories. He is a graduate of Trinity University. ...
19 Greatest Partnerships of the last 30 Years *
Cezary Balicki Cezary Jacek Balicki (born 5 August 1958) is a Polish bridge and chess player. After 2014 competition, he ranked 17th among Grand Masters by World Bridge Federation (WBF) masterpoints, five places ahead of his longtime partner Adam Żmudzińs ...
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Adam Żmudziński Adam Artur Żmudziński (born 18 January 1956) is a Polish bridge player. After 2014 competition, he ranked 22nd among Grand Masters by World Bridge Federation (WBF) masterpoints, five places behind his longtime partner Cezary Balicki. They ran ...
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Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...
& Benito Garozzo *
Norberto Bocchi Norberto Bocchi (born September 29, 1961 in Parma, Italy) is an Italian bridge player. Bocchi has won five World teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years his regular ...
& Giorgio Duboin *
Marcelo Branco Marcelo Castello Branco (born 1945) is a Brazilian bridge player from Rio de Janeiro. Among other successes, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, and World Open pairs Championship in New Orleans ...
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Gabriel Chagas Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born 7 December 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player. He was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, World Open Pairs Championship in Geneva 1990, as ...
* Paul Chemla & Michel Perron * Tony Forrester & Andrew Robson *
Piotr Gawryś Piotr Gawryś (born 1955) is a Swiss bridge player. Gawrys, WBF Grand Master, has won 4 world championships; World Team Olympics in 1984, Transnational Mixed Teams 2000, Transnational Open Teams 2005 and Bermuda Bowl 2015. His other first places ...
& Marcin Leśniewski * Bobby Goldman & Paul Soloway *
Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...
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Bobby Wolff Robert S. (Bobby) Wolff (born October 14, 1932, San Antonio, Texas) is an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is the only person to win world championships in five different categories. He is a graduate of Trinity University. ...
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Geir Helgemo Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...
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Tor Helness Tor Helness (born 25 July 1957) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. He was a stalwart on Norway junior and open teams for thirty years before moving to Monaco. Through 2012 he has won four world championships in competition. As of October ...
* Eddie Kantar & Mike Lawrence *
Sami Kehela Sami R. Kehela (born 1934), sometimes spelled Sammy Kehela, is a Canadian contract bridge player. A member of the Halls of Fame of both the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the Canadian Bridge Federation, he and his long-time partner, th ...
& Eric Murray *
Lorenzo Lauria Lorenzo Lauria (born July 17, 1947 ) is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion and a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF). As of July 2014 he ranks fifth among Open World Grand Masters and his re ...
& Alfredo Versace * Alain Levy & Christian Mari *
Zia Mahmood Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biograp ...
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Michael Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg (born March 7, 1954) is an American bridge player. Rosenberg was born in New York City, moved to Scotland as a child, and returned to New York in 1978. He lived in New York State with his wife Debbie, also a top player, from 1 ...
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Chip Martel Charles U. "Chip" Martel (born 1953) is an American computer scientist and bridge player. Martel was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014. He is married to Jan Martel, also in the ACBL Hall of Fame. Academic life Martel received a B.S. ...
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Lew Stansby Lew Stansby (born 1940) is an American bridge player from Dublin, California. Lew, a former commodities trader lives with wife and fellow national champion JoAnna Stansby. Since his first national win in the Reisinger in 1965, he has won over 35 n ...
* Krzysztof Martens & Marek Szymanowski *
Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called tri ...
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Eric Rodwell Eric Victor Rodwell (born May 1, 1957) is an American professional bridge player. He has won the Bermuda Bowl representing the United States five times and is one of ten players who have won the triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the Wor ...
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Alan Sontag Alan M. Sontag (born May 2, 1946) is an American professional bridge player. He won six world championships, including two Bermuda Bowl wins. Sontag is also known for his book ''The Bridge Bum'', a book "on everybody's list of the top ten bridge bo ...
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Peter Weichsel Peter M. Weichsel (born 1943) is an American professional bridge player from Encinitas, California. College and war years Early Weichsel started playing bridge at home with his family, but did not get hooked until 1963 when he was a student at ...
16 Greatest Female Partnerships of All Time * Carla Arnolds & Bep Vriend *
Daniela von Arnim Daniela von Arnim (born 10 July 1964 in Munich) is a German bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 35th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 13th by placing p ...
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Sabine Auken Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world maste ...
* Véronique Bessis & Catherine D'Ovidio * Marisa Bianchi & Anna Valenti * Mildred Breed & Shawn Quinn * Sally Brock &
Sandra Landy Sandra Landy (née Ogilvie; 19 June 1938 – 4 January 2017) was a contract bridge player who played at international level for England and for Great Britain, and was a member of the England teams which won the women's world championship, the ...
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Bénédicte Cronier Bénédicte Cronier is a French bridge player. Cronier was born in 1961. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Venice Cup (2) 2005, 2011 * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2015 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Tea ...
& Sylvie Willard * Pat Davies & Nicola Smith *
Lynn Deas Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. De ...
& Beth Palmer * Joan Durran & Jane Priday * Maria Erhart & Doris Fischer *
Fritzi Gordon Fritzi Gordon (1905 or 1916 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman t ...
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Rixi Markus "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.
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Emma Jean Hawes Emma Jean Hawes (''née'' Fisher; July 5, 1912 – July 28, 1987)"Hawes, Emma Jean" ...
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Dorothy Hayden Truscott Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two ...
* Karen McCallum & Kerri Sanborn *
Jacqui Mitchell Jacquelyn M. "Jacqui" Mitchell (born 1936) Mitchell... is as utterly self disciplined at the table as she is away from it... She passes much of her time at the table doing embroidery as though determined to remain detached, but those who trifle w ...
& Gail Moss Greenberg *
Judi Radin Judi Radin, née Friedenberg (born 1950), is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She played also as Judi Solodar. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Radin ranked 33rd among 73 Women World ...
& Kathie Wei Greatest Player Ever: *
Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...

Greatest Authors: * Mike Lawrence *
Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...


''Simply the Best - 20 of the Greatest Bridge Players of all Time'' by Brian Senior (2015)

In this seventy-page booklet, Senior provides commentary about twenty individuals he regards as the best bridge players or personalities of all time. * Harold Vanderbilt *
Ely Culbertson Elie Almon Culbertson (July 22, 1891 – December 27, 1955), known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant during the 1930s. He played a major role in the popularization of the new game and was wide ...
* P. Hal Sims *
Howard Schenken Howard Schenken (September 28, 1903 – February 20, 1979) was an American bridge player, writer, and long-time syndicated bridge columnist. He was from New York City. He won three Bermuda Bowl titles, and set several North American records. Most r ...
* B. Jay Becker *
Charles Goren Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as " ...
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Helen Sobel Helen Elizabeth Sobel Smith (''née'' Martin; May 22, 1909 – September 11, 1969) was an American bridge player. She is said to have been the "greatest woman bridge player of all time" and "may well have been the most brilliant card player of ...
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Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...
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Rixi Markus "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.
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Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...
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Pietro Forquet Pietro Forquet (2 July 1925 – 27 January 2023) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 15 World championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Eugenio Chiaradia, Guglielmo Siniscalco and, for the ...
* Benito Garozzo * Omar Sharif *
Edgar Kaplan Edgar Kaplan (April 18, 1925 – September 7, 1997) was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, ...
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Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...
* Mike Lawrence *
George Rosenkranz George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019) was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerl ...
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Zia Mahmood Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biograp ...
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Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called tri ...
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Geir Helgemo Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...


Point leaders


American Contract Bridge League

Grand Life Masters (GLM) defined by lifetime ACBL master points (MP), with some condition on major achievements
MP leaders all-time, including deceased members, GLM only
Players of the Decade – defined by ACBL platinum master points * 1990s * 2000s * 2010s
Leaders, 2010 to present


European Bridge League

Lists of the top European Master Points (EMP) holders in various categories and for various periods


World Bridge Federation

The World Bridge Federation measures achievement in tournament play by a dual system of
Master Points Masterpoints or master points are points awarded by bridge organizations to individuals for success in competitive bridge tournaments run under their auspices. Generally, recipients must be members in good standing of the issuing organization. At t ...
and Placing PointsMaster Points
. WBF. and provides ranked lists in Open, Women, and Seniors categories. Short colloquialisms like "Fulvio Fantoni is number one in the world" refer to the WBF Open Ranking. It ranks by Master Points those all-time players whose Placing Points accord "World Grand Master" status. MPs decay but PPs do not, so retired and deceased World Grand Masters remain on the list but drift toward the bottom.


Other listings


Video interviews

The
American Contract Bridge League The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) is a governing body for contract bridge in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. It is the largest such organization in North America having the stated mission ''"to promote, grow and sustain th ...
has published at
YouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ...
audio-video interviews of numerous players including almost 30 members of its Hall of Fame. These listings include some other videos of bridge personalities published at YouTube. (Those marked "ACBL Hall of Fame" may be interviews conducted by Audrey Grant, as are the ones so marked.)
Mike Becker
ACBL Hall of Fame
David Berkowitz
ACBL Hall of Fame
David Berkowitz
accepting Hall of Fame induction
Boye Brogeland
interviewed by John Carruthers
John Carruthers
interviewed by Bridge Kids
Gabriel Chagas and Zia Mahmood
explaining online money-bridge
Larry Cohen
presenting Berkowitz for Hall of Fame induction
Larry Cohen and Jeff Meckstroth
talking bridge on a cruise
Joshua Donn and Roger Lee
interviewed by Bridge Winners after Blue Ribbon 2011 victory
Billy Eisenberg
ACBL Hall of Fame
Billy Eisenberg
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Henry Francis
ACBL Hall of Fame
Benito Garozzo
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Fred Gitelman
interviewed by Bridge Kids
Bobby Goldman
ACBL Hall of Fame
Joe Grue
interviewed by Gavin Wolpert
Fred Hamilton
ACBL Hall of Fame
Bob Hamman
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Bob Hamman
ACBL Hall of Fame
Bob Hamman
interviewed by Bridge Kids
Eddie Kantar
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Eddie Kantar
ACBL Hall of Fame
Edgar Kaplan
ACBL Hall of Fame
Sami Kehela
ACBL Hall of Fame
Betty Ann Kennedy
ACBL Hall of Fame
Eric Kokish
ACBL Hall of Fame
Mark Lair
ACBL Hall of Fame
Sidney Lazard
ACBL Hall of Fame
Bobby Levin
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Bobby Levin
interviewed by Bridge Topics
Zia Mahmood
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Zia Mahmood
ACBL Hall of Fame
Jan Martel
ACBL Hall of Fame
Jeff Meckstroth
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Jeff Meckstroth
interviewed by Bridge Kids
Jeff Meckstroth
interviewed by Bridge Topics
Mark Molson
interviewed by Audrey Grant
Eric Murray
ACBL Hall of Fame
Aileen Osofsky
ACBL Hall of Fame
Mike Passell
ACBL Hall of Fame
George Rapée
ACBL Hall of Fame
Barry Rigal
interviewed by John Carruthers
Eric Rodwell
interviewed by Mark Horton 1
Eric Rodwell
interviewed by Mark Horton 2
Steve Robinson
ACBL Hall of Fame
Carol Sanders
ACBL Hall of Fame
Kerri Sanborn
ACBL Hall of Fame
Alfred Sheinwold
ACBL Hall of Fame
Alan Sontag
ACBL Hall of Fame
Katherine Wei-Sender
ACBL Hall of Fame
Peter Weichsel
ACBL Hall of Fame


Bridge in fiction

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James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...
Synopsis of Moonraker with its famous bridge hand, in ''
The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
'

Retrieved 7 April 2011. ** M (James Bond), M in James Bond (Miles Messervy)"Gambling"
''007: the james bond dossier'' (TBJD.co.uk). Retrieved 3 October 2011. **The first James Bond film '' Dr. No (film)'' features bridge. * The characters played by Chico Marx and
Harpo Marx Arthur "Harpo" Marx (born Adolph Marx; November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and harpist, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Grou ...
, in the 1930 film '' Animal Crackers''. *
Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays ('' Black Coffee'' and ''Alibi''), and more ...
* Norma DesmondThe 1950 Hollywood feature film ''
Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles, California, that stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles. It is a major thoroughfare in ...
'' features a bridge game hosted by the former silent film star Norma Desmond.
  Hennigan, Adrian (11 March 2003)
"Exploring ''Sunset Boulevard''"
''Movies''.
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.co.uk. Archived(?) 28 October 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2011. *
Snoopy Snoopy is an anthropomorphic beagle in the comic strip ''Peanuts'' by Charles M. Schulz. He can also be found in all of the ''Peanuts'' films and television specials. Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most recog ...
and WoodstockCharles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip ''
Peanuts ''Peanuts'' is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. ''Peanuts'' is among the most popular and infl ...
'', was a "bridge enthusiast" and ''Peanuts'' sometimes featured bridge. A series of strips during May 1997, among others, featured a table constituted by the dog Snoopy, Woodstock, and other bird friends.
  Truscott, Alan (10 July 2000). "BRIDGE; Snoopy's Finest Card Game (Trump That, Red Baron!)". ''The New York Times''

Retrieved 2015-01-10. * Lily Bart, in Edith Wharton's 1905 novel ''
The House of Mirth ''The House of Mirth'' is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the end of the 19th century. Wharton creates a portrait ...
'' * E.F. Benson's ''
Mapp and Lucia ''Mapp and Lucia'' is a 1931 comic novel written by E. F. Benson. It is the fourth of six novels in the popular Mapp and Lucia series, about idle women in the 1920s and their struggle for social dominance over their small communities. It bring ...
'' novels (1920–1939) feature bridge. * Meteor Garden features bridge. *The movie ''Sunset Boulevard'' features bridge


Famous people and bridge

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Warren Buffett Warren Edward Buffett ( ; born August 30, 1930) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net ...
Moorem, Martha (19 December 2005). "Billionaires bank on bridge to trump poker". ''
USAToday ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...
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George Burns George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum; January 20, 1896March 9, 1996) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer, and one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television. His arched eyebr ...
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Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...
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Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CCP ...
Truscott, Alan (21 August 2004). "World's Best-Known Player? His Daughter Enjoys It Too". ''The New York Times''

Retrieved 8 April 2011. * Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight EisenhowerAlder, Philip (18 January 2009). "Eisenhower's Other Title: Bridge Player in Chief". ''The New York Times''

Retrieved 8 April 2011. *
Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
(Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) *
Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions ...
* George S. Kaufman * Buster Keaton * Chico Marx *
W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...
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Lauritz Melchior Lauritz Melchior (20 March 1890 – 18 March 1973) was a Danish-American opera singer. He was the preeminent Richard Wagner, Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and has come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type. Late i ...
* Martina Navratilova *
Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip ''Peanuts'', featuring what are probably his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is wi ...
* Omar Sharif *
Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...
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Everton Weekes Sir Everton DeCourcy Weekes, KCMG, GCM, OBE (26 February 19251 July 2020) was a cricketer from Barbados. A right-handed batsman, he was known as one of the hardest hitters in world cricket. Weekes holds the record for consecutive Test hundre ...
* John Paul Stevens *
Harold E. Talbott Harold Elstner Talbott, Jr. (March 31, 1888 – March 2, 1957) was the third United States Secretary of the Air Force. Biography He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in March 1888 and died in 1957. He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, ...
* Fred M. Vinson *
Wan Li Wan Li (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of ...
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H. H. Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom f ...
* F. W. de Klerk *
Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke (; born 27 October 1942), also known by his initials JKM or simply as Korwin, is a Polish far-right politician, paleolibertarian and author. He was a member of the European Parliament from 2014 until 2018. He was the ...
* John H. Caldwell (American Nordic skier) *
Forest Evashevski Forest "Evy" Evashevski (February 19, 1918 – October 30, 2009) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940 and with the Iowa Pre-Flight ...


See also

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List of bridge books ''Bridge'', or more formally ''contract bridge'', is a trick-taking card game of skill and chance played by four players. This article consists of lists of bridge books deemed significant by various authors and organizations. History Books on bri ...
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List of bridge magazines Numerous magazines have been devoted to the card game contract bridge: United States * ''Auction Bridge Magazine'' Edited by Milton Work in the 1920s, this monthly magazine billed itself as the 'Official Organ of the Greatest of Games'. * ''The ...
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List of bridge competitions and awards ''Bridge'', or more formally ''contract bridge'', is a trick-taking card game of skill played by four players. Summary WBF Championships: The World Bridge Team Championships are held in the odd-numbered years: #World Team Championships (Open ...


People with Wikipedia articles

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Pierre Albarran Pierre Albarran (18 May 1893 – 24 February 1960) was a French auction and contract bridge player and theorist, and a tennis player. It has been reported that he was born in the West Indies, and also in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He d ...
* Karen Allison * Leslie Amoils *
Ron Andersen Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald. Ron or RON may also refer to: Arts and media * Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character * Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character *Ron Douglas, the protagonist in '' Lucky Stiff'' played by Joe ...
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Martin Andresen Martin Andresen (born 2 February 1977) is a Norwegian former professional football player and manager, who played as a central midfielder. Club career Early career Andresen was born in Kråkstad. He was a regular on many Norway national yout ...
* Jay Apfelbaum * Russ Arnold *
Sabine Auken Sabine Auken ( Zenkel, born 4 January 1965) is a German bridge player. She has also played as Sabine Zenkel. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 24th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world maste ...
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Walter Avarelli Walter Avarelli (3 June 1912 – 1987) was an Italian bridge player, a member of the famous Blue Team, with whom he won nine Bermuda Bowls and three World Team Olympiads from 1956 to 1972. Avarelli was born in Rome and became a judge there. He fi ...
B * Lynn Baker *
Cezary Balicki Cezary Jacek Balicki (born 5 August 1958) is a Polish bridge and chess player. After 2014 competition, he ranked 17th among Grand Masters by World Bridge Federation (WBF) masterpoints, five places ahead of his longtime partner Adam Żmudzińs ...
* Boris Baran *
Hermine Baron Hermine Baron (November 1, 1912 – September 27, 1996)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American contract bridge player who was a Grand Life Master. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, she moved to Los A ...
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Roger Bates Roger Bates (born 1947) is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (3) 1975, 1988, 1992 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (12) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1971 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (2) 197 ...
* Grant Baze * Henry Beasley * B. Jay Becker * Mike Becker *
Giorgio Belladonna Giorgio Belladonna (7 June 1923 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian bridge player, one of the greatest of all time. He won 16 world championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Walter Avarelli from 1956 to 1969 and later with Benito Garozzo. ...
* Richard Belton * Albert Benjamin * Marty Bergen *
David Berkowitz David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco, June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam and .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight shootings that began in New York City on July 29, 1976. Berkowitz ...
* Lisa Berkowitz * Huub Bertens * Peter Bertheau * Thomas Bessis * Dennis Bilde * David Bird * Cheri Bjerkan * Easley Blackwood Sr. * Lou Bluhm *
Norberto Bocchi Norberto Bocchi (born September 29, 1961 in Parma, Italy) is an Italian bridge player. Bocchi has won five World teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years his regular ...
* Janet de Botton * Tim Bourke *
Peter Boyd Peter Boyd (born 1950) is a world champion American bridge player. He has won one world championship, finished second in another, and won 17 North American bridge championships. Boyd was born in Washington, DC and still lives there. He graduate ...
* Malcolm Brachman *
Bart Bramley Bart Bramley (born 1948) is an American bridge player. Bramley is from Chicago, Illinois. Bramley has lived in Dallas, Texas since 2003. Bramley's wife Judy Bramley was also a Bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL Player of the ...
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Marcelo Branco Marcelo Castello Branco (born 1945) is a Brazilian bridge player from Rio de Janeiro. Among other successes, he was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, and World Open pairs Championship in New Orleans ...
* Mildred Breed * Tomas Brenning * Sjoert Brink * Raymond Brock * Boye Brogeland * John Brown * David Bruce *
Michelle Brunner Michelle Brunner (31 December 1953 – 24 June 2011) was a British bridge player, writer and teacher. She was a member of the British team that won the 1985 Venice Cup, the biennial world championship for women national teams. She also finished ...
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Walter Buller Sir Walter Lawry Buller (9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. His book, ''A History of the Birds of New Zealand'', first published in 1873, was publishe ...
* Krzysztof Buras * Chuck Burger *
Ann Burnstein Ann Burnstein is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (11) ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (2) 1952, 1953 ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1946, 1952 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 196 ...
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David Burnstine David Burnstine (May 5 1900 – August 26, 1965) was a leading tournament contract bridge player of the 1930s. He changed his name to David Bruce after he retired from competition in 1939. Burnstine was born in New York City and regularly played ...
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Wesley Burrowes Wesley Burrowes (15 April 193031 December 2015) was an Irish playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Northern Ireland, he became a resident of the Republic of Ireland. He was best known as the chief scriptwriter on ''The Riordans'' and ''G ...
C * Orlando Campos *
Mike Cappelletti Armand Michael Cappelletti (April 18, 1938 – November 14, 2013)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American lawyer most widely known as a bridge player and poker authority. Cappelletti was born in ...
* Gerald Caravelli * David Carter * Drew Casen *
James Cayne James E. "Jimmy" Cayne (February 14, 1934 – December 28, 2021) was an American businessman and CEO of Bear Stearns. In 2006, he became the first Wall Street chief to own a company stake worth more than $1 billion, but he lost most of that in t ...
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Gabriel Chagas Gabriel Pinheiro Chagas Filho (born 7 December 1944 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian bridge player. He was the winner of World Team Olympiad in Monte Carlo 1976, Bermuda Bowl in Perth 1989, World Open Pairs Championship in Geneva 1990, as ...
* Juanita Chambers * Bernie Chazen * Curtis Cheek * Paul Chemla * Dennis Clerkin * George Coffin * Larry N. Cohen *
Larry T. Cohen Larry T. Cohen (1943-2016) was an American bridge player. Cohen was from Palm Desert, California. He was a pharmacist and a graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison. Katz and Cohen Cohen and Richard H. Katz won the collegiate bridge c ...
* Ben Cohen * Gary Cohler * Richard Coren * Chris Compton * Donna Compton * Charles Coon *
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Barry Crane Barry Crane (born Barry Cohen; November 10, 1927 – July 5, 1985State of California (CA Death Index)Family Tree Legends Retrieved May 20, 2009.) was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyon ...
* Carol Crawford * John R. Crawford *
Bénédicte Cronier Bénédicte Cronier is a French bridge player. Cronier was born in 1961. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Venice Cup (2) 2005, 2011 * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2015 ** Machlin Women's Swiss Tea ...
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Ely Culbertson Elie Almon Culbertson (July 22, 1891 – December 27, 1955), known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant during the 1930s. He played a major role in the popularization of the new game and was wide ...
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Josephine Culbertson Josephine M. "Jo" Culbertson (''née'' Murphy; 2 February 1898 – March 23, 1956) was an American bridge player, teacher, theorist and writer. Josephine Murphy was born in Bayside, New York (now in Queens), to parents John Edward Murphy and Sara ...
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Massimo D'Alelio Massimo "Mimmo" D'Alelio (1916–1998) was an Italian bridge player. He won 13 world championships with the Italian national Blue Team, playing in partnership with Camillo Pabis Ticci during the second half of his career. D'Alelio was born in Na ...
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Hugh Darwen Hugh Darwen is a computer scientist who was an employee of IBM United Kingdom from 1967. to 2004, and has been involved in the development of the relational model. Work From 1978 to 1982 he was a chief architect on Business System 12, a dat ...
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Lynn Deas Lynn Davis Deas (June 16, 1952 – May 10, 2020) was a professional American bridge player. At the time of her death, she was second in the World Bridge Federation (WBF) All time Women Ranking by Placement Points, which do not decay over time. De ...
* Ishmael Delmonte * Richard DeMartino * Nikolay Demirev * Seymon Deutsch * Mike Develin * John Diamond *
Leslie Dodds Leslie William Dodds (2 February 1903 – 1975) was an English international bridge player and, by profession, an import-export merchant, from London. He was a member of the British team which won the Bermuda Bowl in 1955. In his youth he was a ches ...
* Joshua Donn * Albert Dormer * Doug Doub * Bas Drijver * Giorgio Duboin * Michel Duguet E * Joan Eaton * Bill Edelstein *
Billy Eisenberg William Eisenberg (born September 5, 1937The 1st World Mind Sports Games
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* Russ Ekeblad * Waleed El Ahmady * Morrie Elis * Milton Ellenby * J.B. Elwell * Maria Erhart *
Bob Etter Robert Glenn Etter (born August 8, 1945) is a former American college and professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) and World Football League (WFL) for four seasons during the 1960s and 1970s. He p ...
* Disa Eythorsdottir F * Ben Fain * Allan Falk * Björn Fallenius *
Fulvio Fantoni Fulvio Fantoni (born 9 November 1963) is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), and the WBF first-ranked player as of December 2011. He is one of 10 pl ...
* Mary Jane Farell *
Phil Feldesman Philip Efraim Feldesman (June 21, 1919 – September 1, 1986) was an American bridge player. Feldesman was born in Russia in 1919 and immigrated to New York City. He enlisted in the U.S. military in 1943 and became a naturalized citizen the next y ...
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Harry Fishbein Harry J. Fishbein (April 18, 1897 – February 19, 1976) was an American bridge player and club owner. He used to be a professional basketball player. In competition, Fishbein was a runner-up for the world championship in the 1959 Bermuda Bowl, ...
* Arnie Fisher *
Lotan Fisher Lotan Fisher is an Israeli bridge player ranked as a World Life Master by the World Bridge Federation. He first appeared in international competition at the 18th European Youth Team Championships in Torquay in 2002 where his schools division team ...
* William Flannery * Marty Fleisher *
Jeremy Flint Jeremy M. Flint (30 August 1928 – 15 November 1989) was an English contract bridge writer and one of the world's leading professional players. He was also a horse racing enthusiast. Flint was born in Leeds but lived in London. Life and bridge ...
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Pietro Forquet Pietro Forquet (2 July 1925 – 27 January 2023) was an Italian bridge player, one of the most famous in bridge history. He won 15 World championship titles with the Blue Team, playing with Eugenio Chiaradia, Guglielmo Siniscalco and, for the ...
* Tony Forrester * R.F. Foster * Gene Freed * Richard Freeman * Edith Freilich * Richard L. Frey * Doris Fuller G *
Nico Gardener Nico Gardener (né Goldinger, 27 January 1906 – 10 December 1989) was a British international bridge player and a leading bridge teacher in London and on cruise ships.
* Steve Garner * Benito Garozzo *
Piotr Gawryś Piotr Gawryś (born 1955) is a Swiss bridge player. Gawrys, WBF Grand Master, has won 4 world championships; World Team Olympics in 1984, Transnational Mixed Teams 2000, Transnational Open Teams 2005 and Bermuda Bowl 2015. His other first places ...
* Terry W. Gee * Ron Gerard * John Gerber * Pierre Ghestem * Eldad Ginossar * Fred Gitelman *
Jeff Glick Jefferson B. Glick (November 23, 1906 – July 31, 1985) was an American bridge player. Glick was from North Miami Beach, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (9) ** Hilliard Mixed Pairs (1) 1941 ** Sping ...
* Brian Glubok * Ramesh Gokhale * Bobby Goldman * Arthur S. Goldsmith * Gratian Goldstein * Agnes Gordon *
Fritzi Gordon Fritzi Gordon (1905 or 1916 – 8 February 1992) was an Austrian-born British bridge player, half of the most famous and tempestuous female partnership in the game's history. Following her long-time partner Rixi Markus, she was the second woman t ...
* Phil Gordon *
Charles Goren Charles Henry Goren (March 4, 1901 – April 3, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer who significantly developed and popularized the game. He was the leading American bridge personality in the 1950s and 1960s – or 1940s and 1950s, as " ...
* Michael T. Gottlieb * Larry Gould * Ross Grabel *
Matt Granovetter Matthew "Matt" Granovetter (born 1950) is an American bridge player and writer. Granovetter is from Jersey City, New Jersey, and graduated from Hunter College. He subsequently moved to Netanya, Israel. After spending 1993 to 2005 in Israel, he ...
* Audrey Grant * Allan Graves * Eric Greco *
Alan C. Greenberg Alan Courtney "Ace" Greenberg (September 3, 1927 – July 25, 2014) was a chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. Early life and education Greenberg was born in Wichita, Kansas but raised in Oklahom ...
* Ari Greenberg * Gail Greenberg * William Grieve * Andrew Gromov * Susanna Gross * Glenn Grøtheim * Joe Grue *
Nancy Gruver Nancy Lois Gordon Gruver (August 12, 1931 – January 28, 1990) was an American bridge player. She won more than a dozen American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) "national" championships and finished second in two world championships. Gruver graduat ...
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Bob Hamman Robert David "Bob" Hamman (born August 6, 1938 in Pasadena, California) is an American professional bridge player, among the greatest players of all time. He is from Dallas, Texas. Hamman and Bobby Wolff played as partners for nearly three deca ...
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Petra Hamman Petra Hamman (born 1946) is an American bridge player. She was born in Germany but is now from Dallas, Texas. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1999 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) ...
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Geoff Hampson Geoff Hampson (born 1968) is a Canadian professional bridge player. Hampson is from Toronto and the son of Sharon Hampson (née Trostin) of ''Sharon, Lois & Bram'' and American folk singer Joe Hampson. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein T ...
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Emma Jean Hawes Emma Jean Hawes (''née'' Fisher; July 5, 1912 – July 28, 1987)"Hawes, Emma Jean" ...
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Geir Helgemo Geir Helgemo (born 14 February 1970) is a professional bridge player who was born in Norway but is now a citizen of Monaco. Through 2012 he had won three world championships in competition. As of August 2018 he ranked first among Open World Gra ...
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Tor Helness Tor Helness (born 25 July 1957) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. He was a stalwart on Norway junior and open teams for thirty years before moving to Monaco. Through 2012 he has won four world championships in competition. As of October ...
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Christal Henner Christal Henner is an American bridge player and a World Life Master in the Open rankings of the World Bridge Federation. Henner finished second in the Rosenblum Cup World Championship in 2006 in Verona, Italy and won five North American Bridge Ch ...
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Marc Hodler Marc Hodler ( – ) was a Swiss lawyer, President of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1963 until his death, and bridge player. Hodler is best known for having exposed the Oly ...
* Martin Hoffman * Mark Horton * John W. Hubbell * Carl Hudecek * Roy Hughes * Edward Hymes I J *
Zeke Jabbour Xique "Zeke" Jabbour is a professional American bridge player and writer from Boca Raton, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1989 * Barry Crane Top 500 (1) 1989 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** T ...
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Marc Jacobus Marc S. Jacobus (born 1951) is a professional American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2000 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 1972 ** Vander ...
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Oswald Jacoby Oswald "Ozzie", "Jake" Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge players of all time and a key innovator in the game, having helped popularize widely used bi ...
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Pierre Jaïs Pierre Jaïs (13 October 1913 – 24 June 1988) was a French bridge player and writer from Paris. He and his regular partner Roger Trézel were on the France team that won the inaugural World Team Olympiad in Turin, 1960, and they won the inaugura ...
* Krzysztof Jassem *
Marilyn Johnson Marilyn Kinsman Johnson (February 18, 1928 – October 31, 2007) was an American bridge player from Houston, Texas. She won three world championships, one at women pairs and two at women teams, all in partnership with Mary Jane Farell. Farell ...
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Charles Kalme Charles Ivars Kalme ( lv, Kārlis Ivars Kalme, November 15, 1939 – March 20, 2002) was a Latvian American chess master and a mathematician. Kalme was born in Riga, Latvia on November 15, 1939. At the conclusion of World War II, Kalme and wh ...
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Edwin Kantar Edwin Bruce Kantar (November 9, 1932 – April 8, 2022) was an American bridge player, winner of two open world championships for national teams (Bermuda Bowls), and prolific writer of bridge books and columns. Kantar was from Santa Monica, Califor ...
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Edgar Kaplan Edgar Kaplan (April 18, 1925 – September 7, 1997) was an American bridge player and one of the principal contributors to the game. His career spanned six decades and covered every aspect of bridge. He was a teacher, author, editor, administrator, ...
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Peggy Kaplan Peggy Kaplan is an American bridge player. Kaplan lives in Minnesota. Kaplan was one of the contributing editors to the 7th edition of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** ...
* Kalin Karaivanov * Gaylor Kasle *
Ralph Katz Ralph Katz (born 1957) is an American bridge player. Katz is from Burr Ridge, Illinois and graduated from University of Steubenville. In 2018 he was a first-ballot selection for the ACBL Hall of Fame. Domestically, he has won 23 North American B ...
* Richard H. Katz * George S. Kaufman * Norman Kay *
Amalya Lyle Kearse Amalya Lyle Kearse (born June 11, 1937)Goldstein, Tom. "Amalya Lyle Kearse; Woman in the News", ''The New York Times'', June 25, 1979. is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a worl ...
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Sami Kehela Sami R. Kehela (born 1934), sometimes spelled Sammy Kehela, is a Canadian contract bridge player. A member of the Halls of Fame of both the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the Canadian Bridge Federation, he and his long-time partner, th ...
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Hugh Kelsey Hugh Walter Kelsey (1926 – 18 March 1995) was a British bridge player and writer, best known for advanced books on the play of the cards. Life Kelsey was born and died in Edinburgh. He was a combatant in World War II, and subsequently lived ...
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Alicia Kempner Alicia Kempner is an American bridge player from Palm Springs, California. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1962, 1969 ** Barclay Trophy (1) 1954 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a- ...
* Betty Ann Kennedy *
Roy Kerr Roy Patrick Kerr (; born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His solution models the gravitational field outside an uncharged ...
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Ron Klinger Ron Klinger (born 8 November 1941) is an Australian contract bridge player and a leading English-language bridge writer, the author of more than 70 books on the game. He is an Australian Grand Master and a World Bridge Federation International ...
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Putte Kock Rudolf "Putte" Kock (29 June 1901 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bridge player who won a bronze medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics as a football player, being voted the best left winger after the tournament. He also ...
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Kenneth Konstam Kenneth Walter "Konnie" Konstam (born Adolf Walter Konstam; 25 February 1906 – 21 May 1968) was an English international bridge player who won seven international titles. In 1955 he played on the only Great Britain team to win the Bermuda Bowl (t ...
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Daniel Korbel Daniel Korbel is a Canadian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2015 ** 2016 Jacoby Swiss Teams ** Grand National Teams (1) 2019 (Championship Flight) * Canadia ...
* Warren Kornfeld * Valentin Kovachev * Boris Koytchou * Jim Krekorian *
Michał Kwiecień Michał Kwiecień (born March 1, 1957) is a Polish bridge player. Kwiecień won the 1998 World Open Pairs Championship with Jacek Pszczoła Jacek Pszczoła (born January 10, 1967) References External links * * 1957 births Polish contra ...
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Mark Lair Mark Lair (born 1947) is a professional American bridge player from Canyon, Texas. Lair is ranked 5th all-time on the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Top 500 listings with over 67,800 masterpoints (as of October 2018). He is an ACBL Grand ...
* Hemant Lall * Harry Lampert * Steve Landen * Alvin Landy *
Sandra Landy Sandra Landy (née Ogilvie; 19 June 1938 – 4 January 2017) was a contract bridge player who played at international level for England and for Great Britain, and was a member of the England teams which won the women's world championship, the ...
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Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Cham ...
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Lorenzo Lauria Lorenzo Lauria (born July 17, 1947 ) is an Italian international bridge player. He is a six-time world champion and a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF). As of July 2014 he ranks fifth among Open World Grand Masters and his re ...
* Mike Lawrence * Sidney H. Lazard * Robert Lebi *
Michael Ledeen Michael Arthur Ledeen (; born August 1, 1941) is an American historian, and neoconservative foreign policy analyst. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United St ...
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Sidney Lenz Sidney Samuel Lenz (1873 – 1960) was an American contract bridge player and writer. He is a member of the American Contract Bridge League Hall of Fame, being inducted in the second (1965) class. Career Lenz was born July 12, 1873 in a suburb of ...
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Peter Leventritt Peter A. Leventritt (October 5, 1915 – December 6, 1997) was an American bridge player, president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) for 1945–1946. Leventritt was from New York City. Leventritt was inducted into the ACBL Hall of ...
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Bobby Levin Robert J. (Bobby) Levin (born November 19, 1957) is an American professional bridge player, from Aventura, Florida. He was the youngest winner of the Bermuda Bowl world championship for national teams from 1981 until 2015, when 19-year old Michal K ...
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Jill Levin Jillian Shane "Jill" Levin (born October 13, 1961) is an American Contract bridge, bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Jillian Blanchard as well as Jill Levin. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summ ...
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Irina Levitina Irina Solomonovna Levitina (born June 8, 1954) is a Russian-American chess and bridge player. In chess, she has been a World Championship Candidate in 1984 and gained the title Woman Grandmaster. In contract bridge she has won five world champio ...
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Theodore Lightner Theodore Alexander "Teddy" Lightner (14 September 1893 – November 1981) was an American bridge player. He developed the Lightner double, a bridge bidding convention. Lightner was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and moved to Chicago and later ...
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Harold Lilie Harold J. Lilie was an American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1982 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 1995 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1982 ** Mit ...
* Espen Lindqvist * Robert Lipsitz * Clyde E. Love *
Paul Lukacs Paul Lukacs (born Lukács Pàl; he, פאול לוקאץ'; 23 April 1918 – 1982) ''Palestine, Illegal Immigration from German-Occupied Europe, 1938-1945 (USHMM)'' was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician, analyst and composer of problems in t ...
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Zia Mahmood Mir Zia Mahmood (born 7 January 1946) is a Pakistani-American professional bridge player. He is a World Bridge Federation and American Contract Bridge League Grand Life Master. As of April 2011 he was the 10th-ranked World Grand Master. Biograp ...
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Merwyn Maier Merwin D. "Jimmy" Maier (August 14, 1908 – February 15, 1942) was an American attorney and bridge player from New York City. He was a member of the Four Aces from 1937 until his death from an unknown virus in New York in 1942. Maier was born i ...
* Renee Mancuso * Ed Manfield * Jo Ann Manfield * Ronald Mansbridge *
Rixi Markus "Rixi" Markus MBE (27 June 1910 – 4 April 1992) was an Austrian and British international contract bridge player. She won five world titles, and was the first woman to become a World Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation.
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Chip Martel Charles U. "Chip" Martel (born 1953) is an American computer scientist and bridge player. Martel was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014. He is married to Jan Martel, also in the ACBL Hall of Fame. Academic life Martel received a B.S. ...
* Jan Martel * Krzysztof Martens *
Jack Marx Jackson Gregory Marx, known as Jack Marx, is an Australian journalist and author. He was born in Maitland, New South Wales. Career Marx moved to Sydney in his late teens to pursue a career in music with the rock band I Spartacus (previous ...
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Lew Mathe Lewis Lawrence Mathe (March 27, 1915 – March 10, 1986) was an American world champion bridge player and administrator from Canoga Park, California. Mathe, a native of New York, served in the Army during World War II; he enlisted two days before ...
* Karen McCallum * Pat McDevitt *
Jeff Meckstroth Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth (born May 15, 1956) is an American professional contract bridge player. He is a multiple world champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl on USA teams five times. He is one of only ten players who have won the so-called tri ...
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Adam Meredith Adam Theodore "Plum" Meredith (16 June 1913 – 30 January 1976) was a British professional bridge player and world tournament champion.Truscott (1976) Early life Meredith was born in Bangor, County Down, Ireland, (now Northern Ireland), to H ...
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Jill Meyers Jill J. Meyers (born February 13, 1950) is an American bridge player from Santa Monica, California. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 7th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (M ...
* Marion Michielsen * Marshall Miles *
Jacqui Mitchell Jacquelyn M. "Jacqui" Mitchell (born 1936) Mitchell... is as utterly self disciplined at the table as she is away from it... She passes much of her time at the table doing embroidery as though determined to remain detached, but those who trifle w ...
* Victor Mitchell * Sol Mogal *
John Mohan John A. Mohan (born 1939) is an American bridge player from Santa Monica, California. Mohan graduated from the University of Chicago. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL Player of the Year (1) 1999 * Herman Trophy (1) 1977 Wins * North Ame ...
* Victor Mollo * Mark Molson * Albert H. Morehead *
Larry Mori Lawrence K. "Larry" Mori (1948-2022) was a professional American bridge player from Charlton, New York. Mori was raised in Tokyo. He was a licensed psychotherapist, educated at Wayne State University and University of Michigan. Bridge accomplishm ...
* Dan Morse * Jo Morse * Brad Moss *
Bauke Muller Bauke Muller (born 17 February 1962) is a Dutch bridge player living in Hoorn. Muller was World Champion Open Teams (Bermuda Bowl) in 1993 and 2011 and European Champion Open Teams (Tenerife) in 2005. In 2007 he won the bronze medal at both th ...
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Bobby Nail George Robert Nail (April 21, 1925 – May 25, 1995) was an American bridge player and a club owner and teacher in Houston, Texas. Nail was born in Kansas City, Missouri, with the congenital bone disorder osteogenesis imperfecta. In the 1960s he ...
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Nick Nickell Frank T. "Nick" Nickell (born 1947) is an American bridge player. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, and lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, as of 1994. Nickell was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2008. At the time he lived i ...
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Claudio Nunes Claudio Nunes (born 23 March 1968) is an Italian professional bridge player. He is a five-time world champion, a World Grand Master of the World Bridge Federation (WBF), and the WBF second-ranked player as of April 2011. He is one of 10 playe ...
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Jack Olsen Jack Olsen (June 7, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American journalist and author known for his crime reporting. Olsen was senior editor-in-chief for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' in 1954. He was Midwest bureau chief for ''Time'' and a senior ...
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Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Jaime Ortiz-Patiño (20 June 1930 – 3 January 2013) was an art collector, golf course owner and former President of the World Bridge Federation. Ortiz-Patiño was born on 20 June 1930 in Paris. His father Jorge Ortiz-Linares was Ambassador of B ...
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Aileen Osofsky Aileen Shirley Osofsky née Bryant (September 6, 1926 – June 22, 2010) was an American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player. She served as the chairman of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Goodwill Committee for more t ...
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Géza Ottlik Géza Ottlik (9 May 1912 – 9 October 1990) was a Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist. According to an American obituary bridge column, he was known in Hungary as "the ultimate authority on Hungarian prose". Bi ...
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Camillo Pabis Ticci Camillo Pabis Ticci (1920–2003) was an Italian bridge player. He joined the national Blue Team in 1963 and played in the Bermuda Bowl tournament with Giorgio Belladonna, whose long-time partner Walter Avarelli was unavailable. From 1964 he play ...
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Jordanis Pavlides Jordanis Theodore Pavlides ( gr, Ιορδάνης Θεόδωρος Παυλίδης; Iordanis Theodoros Pavlidis; 12 October 1903 – 26 February 1985)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' was a Greek-British contract bridge ...
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Leonard Pennario Leonard Pennario (July 9, 1924 – June 27, 2008) was an American classical pianist and composer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, attending Los Angeles High School remaining in L.A. for his entire career. He firs ...
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Hubert Phillips Hubert Phillips (13 December 1891 – 9 January 1964) was a British economist, journalist, broadcaster, bridge player and organiser, composer of puzzles and quizzes, and the author of some 70 books. Life Education and early career Phil ...
* Sue Picus * Josef Piekarek * Brian Platnick *
William Pole William Pole FRS FRSE MICE (22 April 181430 December 1900) was an English engineer, astronomer, musician and an authority on Whist. Life He was born in Birmingham on 22 April 1814, the son of Thomas Pole. Pole was apprenticed as an engineer t ...
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Gary Pomerantz Gary M. Pomerantz (born November 17, 1960) is an American journalist and author who lectures in the graduate program in journalism at Stanford University. His books include ''Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn'' (1996 ''New York Times'' Notabl ...
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Julian Pottage Julian Y. Pottage (born 1962) is a British contract bridge player, writer, and teacher, who studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge.Tony Priday * Ricco van Prooijen *
Tommy Prothro James Thompson "Tommy" Prothro Jr. (July 20, 1920 – May 14, 1995) was an American football coach. He was the head coach at Oregon State University from 1955 to 1964 and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1965 to 1970, compil ...
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Judi Radin Judi Radin, née Friedenberg (born 1950), is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She played also as Judi Solodar. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Radin ranked 33rd among 73 Women World ...
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George Rapée George Nicholas Rapée (May 22, 1915 – April 1, 1999) was an American bridge player. From 1942 to 1980 he was the most successful player in the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) in its three most important tournaments, the Vanderbilt, Spin ...
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Barbara Rappaport Barbara Rappaport is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1971 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1977 ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (2) 1971, 1 ...
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Terence Reese John Terence Reese (28 August 1913 – 29 January 1996) was a British bridge player and writer, regarded as one of the finest of all time in both fields. He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England to middle-class parents, and was educated at Bradf ...
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Barry Rigal Barry Rigal (born 1958) is a bridge player, author, commentator and journalist. Born in England, he was married to world champion Sue Picus and lives in New York. Rigal has represented England in the Camrose Trophy Home International series five ...
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Eric Rodwell Eric Victor Rodwell (born May 1, 1957) is an American professional bridge player. He has won the Bermuda Bowl representing the United States five times and is one of ten players who have won the triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the Wor ...
* Bill Root *
Eunice Rosen Eunice Marya Rosen (born September 6, 1930) is an American bridge player. She is married to fellow bridge champion William Rosen. In 1958 and in 1966, Eunice and Bill won the Master Mixed Teams, now known as the Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match tourn ...
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Michael Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg (born March 7, 1954) is an American bridge player. Rosenberg was born in New York City, moved to Scotland as a child, and returned to New York in 1978. He lived in New York State with his wife Debbie, also a top player, from 1 ...
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George Rosenkranz George Rosenkranz (born György Rosenkranz; 20 August 1916 – 23 June 2019) was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerl ...
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Jeff Rubens Jeff Rubens (born 1941) is an American bridge player, editor, and writer of books including ''Secrets of Winning Bridge'' and ''Expert Bridge Simplified''. He is best known for long association with ''The Bridge World'' monthly magazine, as co-edit ...
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Boris Schapiro Boris Schapiro (22 August 1909 – 1 December 2002) was a British international bridge player. He was a Grandmaster of the World Bridge Federation, and the only player to have won both the Bermuda Bowl (the world championship for national teams) ...
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Howard Schenken Howard Schenken (September 28, 1903 – February 20, 1979) was an American bridge player, writer, and long-time syndicated bridge columnist. He was from New York City. He won three Bermuda Bowl titles, and set several North American records. Most r ...
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Barbara Seagram Barbara Seagram (born 1949 in Barbados, West Indies) is a Canadian Registered Nurse and contract bridge writer, teacher, and administrator. She is co-author of thirty-two published bridge books, including co-writing with Marc Smith ''25 Bridge C ...
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Michael Seamon Michael Seamon (January 15, 1960 – 2017) was an American professional bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida. Born to bridge players Rita and William Seamon, Michael was the youngest of three children. His sister, Janice Seamon-Molson, is al ...
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Janice Seamon-Molson Janice Seamon-Molson (born June 6, 1956) is an American bridge player. Career She has won major tournaments under the name Janice Seamon as well. As of 2016, Seamon–Molson ranked 3rd among women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and ...
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Antonio Sementa Antonio Sementa is an Italian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Bermuda Bowl (1) 2013 * Rosenblum Cup (1) 1998 Brian Senior Brian R. Senior (born 1953) is a professional bridge player and writer from Nottingham. He has represented Great Britain, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland in international competition and has won all the major English Bridge Union competiti ...
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Alfred Sheinwold Alfred (Freddy) Sheinwold (January 26, 1912 – March 8, 1997) was an American bridge player, administrator, international team captain, and prolific writer. He and Edgar Kaplan developed the Kaplan–Sheinwold bidding system. Among other administr ...
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Ruth Sherman Ruth Therese Sherman (November 24, 1903 – April 6, 1965) was an American bridge player from New York City. In 1944 she became ACBL Life Master number 45, the sixth woman to achieve the rank.Jaggy Shivdasani *
Rita Shugart Rita Shugart (née Kennedy) is an American Contract bridge, bridge player. Shugart won her first national title in 1998. She won the Reisinger, arguably the most difficult of all the North American Bridge Championships to win, in consecutive year ...
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Allan Siebert Allan P. Siebert (born 1942) is an American bridge player from Little Rock, Arkansas. On April 18, 2022 he was suspended by the American Contract Bridge League pending a disciplinary hearing. One of his online partners was suspended the same day. ...
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Sidney Silodor Sidney Silodor (November 13, 1906 – August 4, 1963) was an American bridge player. Silodor was a World Champion, winning the Bermuda Bowl in 1950. Silodor is currently 6th on the all-time list of North American Bridge Championships wins with 34. ...
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S. J. Simon Simon Jacoblivitch Skidelsky (russian: Семён Яковлевич Скидельский; 4 July 1904''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 27 July 1948), also known as S. J. "Skid" Simon, Seca Jascha Skidelsky, and Simon Jasha Skidelsky, was ...
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Tobi Sokolow Tobi Sokolow (born July 15, 1942) is an American bridge player. She won major tournaments as Tobi Deutsch as well. As of 2016, she ranked 10th among women in the world by masterpoints and 11th by placing points that do not decay over time.
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Alan Sontag Alan M. Sontag (born May 2, 1946) is an American professional bridge player. He won six world championships, including two Bermuda Bowl wins. Sontag is also known for his book ''The Bridge Bum'', a book "on everybody's list of the top ten bridge bo ...
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Nathan B. Spingold Nathan Spingold (1886–June 14, 1958) was a motion picture executive and a leading administrator in the game of contract bridge. Biography Born in Chicago, Spingold studied law at the Kent College of Law before becoming a newspaper reporter. He ...
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Lew Stansby Lew Stansby (born 1940) is an American bridge player from Dublin, California. Lew, a former commodities trader lives with wife and fellow national champion JoAnna Stansby. Since his first national win in the Reisinger in 1965, he has won over 35 n ...
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Sherman Stearns Sherman Drakeley Stearns (December 27, 1899 – January 11, 1965) was an American contract bridge player from New York and a member of the championship Four Aces team. A real estate broker, Stearns was born in Illinois but later moved to New Yor ...
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Paul Stern Paul Stern (4 April 1892 – 12 June 1948) was an Austrian international bridge player and lawyer, who fled to London in 1938. He was a bidding theorist and administrator who contributed to the early growth of the game. He founded the Austrian Br ...
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Tobias Stone Tobias Stone (June 6, 1919 – February 15, 2012) was an American bridge player and writer from New York City. Stone was born in Manhattan. He and Janice Gilbert married in 1955; divorced in 1975. He retired from bridge and in 1986 moved to Las Ve ...
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John Sutherlin John C. Sutherlin (born November 7, 1936, died May 12, 2018 ) was an American bridge player from Dallas, Texas. He won the North American Bridge Championships 12 times and received both the Fishbein Trophy and the Mott-Smith Trophy. Bridge accomp ...
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Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, (2 August 1927 – 26 December 2018) was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in th ...
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Roger Trézel Roger Trézel (11 May 1918 – 3 November 1986)Brasil, Cartões de Imigração, 1900-1965'. Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. was a French bridge player and writer. He and his long-time regular partner Pierre Jaïs were the first two of ten players ...
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Dorothy Hayden Truscott Dorothy Hayden Truscott (November 3, 1925 – July 4, 2006) was an American bridge player, winner of four world championships and the top-ranked woman for many years. In the late 1960s, she authored two books on the game and later co-authored two ...
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Alan Truscott Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for ''The New York Times'' for 41 years, from 1964 to 2005, and served as Executive Editor for th ...
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Helen Utegaard Helen Utegaard is an American bridge player from Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Beijing. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1988 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 1974 ** Machlin Wo ...
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Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family. Early life He was born in Oakdale ...
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Daniela von Arnim Daniela von Arnim (born 10 July 1964 in Munich) is a German bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 35th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 13th by placing p ...
* Ron Von der Porten *
Waldemar von Zedtwitz Waldemar Konrad von Zedtwitz (May 8, 1896 – October 5, 1984) was a German-born American bridge player and administrator. Life Von Zedtwitz was born in Berlin, Germany. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Breckinridge Caldwell, daughter of American b ...
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Margaret Wagar Margaret Wagar (April 6, 1902 – January 6, 1990) was an American bridge player from Delaware, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. The premier American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) annual championship for women teams since 1976 is the Wagar Women's Kno ...
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Rhoda Walsh Rhoda Walsh (born 1933) is an American bridge player from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate from Loyola Law School and is an attorney. Walsh is a World Bridge Federation (WBF) Master and a North American (ACBL) Grand Life Master. In c ...
* Louis H. Watson * C. C. Wei * Katherine Wei-Sender *
Peter Weichsel Peter M. Weichsel (born 1943) is an American professional bridge player from Encinitas, California. College and war years Early Weichsel started playing bridge at home with his family, but did not get hooked until 1963 when he was a student at ...
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Howard Weinstein Howard M. Weinstein (born 1953) is an American bridge player from Chicago, Illinois. He is a graduate of University of Minnesota. He is related to Josh (J. Elvis) Weinstein from '' Mystery Science Theater 3000''. Bridge accomplishments Wins * ...
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Albert Weiss Albert "Dingy" Weiss (December 24, 1900 - September 1981) was an American bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** Senior Masters Individual (1) 1947 ** Open Pairs (19 ...
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Roy Welland Roy Welland (born October 2, 1962) is a wine connoisseur and world class bridge player. He plays for Germany and currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Early life Welland was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Evanston, Illinois ...
* Valerie Westheimer * Berry Westra * Charles Wigoder * Adam Wildavsky * Sylvie Willard * Chris Willenken *
Eddie Wold Edward M. "Eddie" Wold (born 1951) is an American professional bridge player from Houston, Texas. Wold is a graduate of Rice University. Wold is an accomplished teacher and plays regularly at Houston's Westside Bridge Academy, particularly in that ...
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Bobby Wolff Robert S. (Bobby) Wolff (born October 14, 1932, San Antonio, Texas) is an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is the only person to win world championships in five different categories. He is a graduate of Trinity University. ...
* Gavin Wolpert * Jenny Wolpert * Joel Wooldridge *
Kit Woolsey Kit Woolsey (born Christopher Robin Woolsey in 1943) is an American bridge and backgammon player. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2005. Personal life Woolsey was born in Washington, DC. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1964 and ...
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Milton Work Milton Cooper Work (September 15, 1864 – June 27, 1934) was an American authority on whist, bridge whist, auction and contract bridge. At least during the 19th century he was a cricket player, writer, and official. Work, Sidney Lenz, and Oswa ...
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Richard Zeckhauser Richard Jay Zeckhauser (born 1940) is an American economist and the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, BA (''summa cum laude'') and a PhD in econo ...
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Jack Zhao Jie "Jack" Zhao (born 14 June 1969) is a Chinese people, Chinese professional contract bridge player. He became a World Bridge Federation Grand Master (WGM) in 2014. Bridge career Zhao and Zhong Fu won the quadrennial World Open Pairs Championshi ...
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Adam Żmudziński Adam Artur Żmudziński (born 18 January 1956) is a Polish bridge player. After 2014 competition, he ranked 22nd among Grand Masters by World Bridge Federation (WBF) masterpoints, five places behind his longtime partner Cezary Balicki. They ran ...


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References


External links


Bridge People
at the World Bridge Federation website.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates playing bridge


on the Claire Bridge website

on the Bridge Guys website
Biographies of the English Bridge Union
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