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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'' 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 susta ...
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 susta ...
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 The Canadian Bridge FederationCBF, (La Fédération Canadienne de Bridge''FCB), is the primary organizational body for contract bridge in Canada. Like its American counterpart, the United States Bridge Federation, the CBF promotes bridge by running ...
(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 Europe ...
(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 The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body of contract bridge. The WBF is responsible for world championship competitions, most of which are conducted at a few multi-event meets on a four-year cycle. The most prestigio ...
(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 Leagu ...
'' (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 che ...
* 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.
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Maurice Harrison-Gray Maurice Harrison-Gray (13 November 1899 – 24 November 1968), known always as 'Gray', was an English professional contract bridge player. For about thirty years from the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties he was one of the top players. As a member ...
* 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 ( ...
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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," ...
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Iain Macleod Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Researc ...
* Rixi Markus * J. C. H. Marx * Adam Meredith *
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 ...
* Boris Schapiro * Jim Sharples * Bob Sharples * S. J. (Skid) Simon * Dr. Paul Stern * Joel Tarlo * 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 ...
* 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 *
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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 ...
* 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 che ...
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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.
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Benito Garozzo Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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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 ...
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Maurice Harrison-Gray Maurice Harrison-Gray (13 November 1899 – 24 November 1968), known always as 'Gray', was an English professional contract bridge player. For about thirty years from the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties he was one of the top players. As a member ...
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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 ...
* Oswald Jacoby *
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 inaugur ...
* Edgar Kaplan *
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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 late ...
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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 ...
* Rixi Markus * Adam Meredith * 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 ...
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Carl'Alberto Perroux Carl'Alberto Perroux (also Carlo Alberto; 20 November 1905 – 20 August 1977), was an Italian contract bridge official, the founder and long-time non-playing captain of the Blue Team, the most successful team in bridge history. As Blue Team capta ...
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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 ...
* Alvin Roth * Boris Schapiro *
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 ...
* Cornelis Slavenburg *
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* Roger Trézel *
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 ...
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''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 Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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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 decad ...
* 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 ...
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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, a ...
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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 Gr ...
* Apolinary Kowalski * Magnus Lindkvist * Zia Mahmood *
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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Andrew Robson Andrew Michael Robson OBE (born 1964) is an English professional bridge player, writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for ''The Times'' and '' Country Life''. He was a member of the Gre ...
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Alfredo Versace Alfredo Versace (born 4 June 1969) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has been a stalwart on Italian teams for two decades and has won many European and world championships. As of July 2014 he ranks fourth among Open World Grand Masters ...
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 mast ...
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Maria Erhart Maria Erhart (''née'' Kirner; 15 November 1944 – 2 September 2011), was an Austrian international bridge player, who had the rare distinction of playing for her country's Open team as well as for the Women's team.''Bridge Magazine'', December 2 ...
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Karen McCallum Karen T. "Kate" McCallum (born 1946) is a professional American bridge player from Exeter, New Hampshire. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 40th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world master ...
* Nicola Smith Rising Stars: *
Boye Brogeland Boye Brogeland (born 1973) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships ...
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Fred Gitelman Frederick "Fred" Gitelman (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian-American bridge player, developer of bridge software, and a founder of the online bridge platform Bridge Base Online. Biography Gitelman has won one world championship, nine North A ...
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Larry N. Cohen Larry Neil Cohen (born April 14, 1959) is an American bridge player, writer and teacher. He is best known as an advocate for the "Law of Total Tricks" as a guide in the . He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including ...
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Eddie 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, Califo ...
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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 ...
* 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 regula ...
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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, a ...
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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 ...
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Benito Garozzo Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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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 decad ...
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Maurice Harrison-Gray Maurice Harrison-Gray (13 November 1899 – 24 November 1968), known always as 'Gray', was an English professional contract bridge player. For about thirty years from the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties he was one of the top players. As a member ...
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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 Gr ...
* Oswald Jacoby * Zia Mahmood *
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 ...
* Michael Rosenberg *
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 ...
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Tim Seres Thomas Peter "Tim" Seres (1 April 1925 – 27 September 2007) was an Australian bridge player, generally considered among the best to represent the country internationally. He was a contributor to several magazines and awarded the Medal of the Or ...
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Paul Soloway Paul Soloway (October 10, 1941 – November 5, 2007) was a world champion American bridge player. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship five times and won 30 North American Bridge Championships "national"-level events. Soloway was indu ...
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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. ...
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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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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Benito Garozzo Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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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 regula ...
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Giorgio Duboin Giorgio Duboin (born September 30, 1959 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has won four world teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years hi ...
* Marcelo Branco &
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, a ...
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Paul Chemla Paul Chemla (born January 2, 1944) is a famous French bridge player. Chemla was born in Tunis. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where he took up playing bridge. His wins include three European Pairs Championships (1976 wit ...
& Michel Perron *
Tony Forrester Anthony R. (Tony) Forrester (born 1953) is an English bridge player and writer. He is a British and English international and a World Bridge Federation World International Master. Forrester was a bridge columnist for ''The Daily Telegraph'' fro ...
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Andrew Robson Andrew Michael Robson OBE (born 1964) is an English professional bridge player, writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for ''The Times'' and '' Country Life''. He was a member of the Gre ...
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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 Paul Soloway (October 10, 1941 – November 5, 2007) was a world champion American bridge player. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship five times and won 30 North American Bridge Championships "national"-level events. Soloway was indu ...
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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 decad ...
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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 Gr ...
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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 Octo ...
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Eddie 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, Califo ...
& 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 ...
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Alfredo Versace Alfredo Versace (born 4 June 1969) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has been a stalwart on Italian teams for two decades and has won many European and world championships. As of July 2014 he ranks fourth among Open World Grand Masters ...
* Alain Levy & Christian Mari * Zia Mahmood & Michael Rosenberg *
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. ...
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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 &
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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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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 ...
* Alan Sontag &
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 a ...
16 Greatest Female Partnerships of All Time * Carla Arnolds &
Bep Vriend Brechiena (Bep) Vriend (born 1946) is a Dutch bridge player and teacher. She ranked number 8 among Women World Grand Masters as of April 2011 and number 20 among 69 WGM as of June 2014.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 ...
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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 mast ...
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Marisa Bianchi Marisa may refer to: * Marisa (town), an Indonesian town * Marisa, Hellenised name of Maresha, town in Idumea (today in Israel) * Marisa (given name), a feminine personal name * ''Marisa'' (gastropod), a genus of apple snails * MV ''Marisa'' (193 ...
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Anna Valenti Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) ...
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Mildred Breed Mildred Breed (born 1947) is an American bridge player. Breed is from Austin, Texas. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (16) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 2007 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (4) 1999, 2000, 20 ...
& Shawn Quinn *
Sally Brock Saralinda Jane "Sally" Brock (''née'' Hartley; born 1953) is an English contract bridge, bridge player. She has been part of the winning team in five European Bridge League#Championships, Women's European Championships, two Venice Cups and two ...
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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 ...
* Bénédicte Cronier &
Sylvie Willard Sylvie Willard (born 7 August 1952) is a French bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October) ranked 4th among 73 living Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 8th by placing points tha ...
* 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. D ...
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Beth Palmer Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age ...
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Joan Durran Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (disambiguation), multiple ...
& Jane Priday *
Maria Erhart Maria Erhart (''née'' Kirner; 15 November 1944 – 2 September 2011), was an Austrian international bridge player, who had the rare distinction of playing for her country's Open team as well as for the Women's team.''Bridge Magazine'', December 2 ...
& 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 ...
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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 ...
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Karen McCallum Karen T. "Kate" McCallum (born 1946) is a professional American bridge player from Exeter, New Hampshire. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 40th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world master ...
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Kerri Sanborn Sharon Lou "Kerri" Sanborn (born July 29, 1946) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Kerri Davis and Kerri Shuman as well. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Sanbo ...
* Jacqui Mitchell & 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 Worl ...
& 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 decad ...

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 Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ...
provides commentary about twenty individuals he regards as the best bridge players or personalities of all time. *
Harold 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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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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P. Hal Sims Philip Hal Sims (November 8, 1886 – February 26, 1949) was an American bridge player. In 1932 he was ranked by Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', the second best player in the US during the preceding year.&nb ...
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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 ...
* 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 " ...
* Helen Sobel *
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 ...
* Rixi Markus *
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 ...
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Benito Garozzo Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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Omar Sharif Omar Sharif ( ar, عمر الشريف ; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub , 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the ...
* Edgar Kaplan *
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 decad ...
* 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 ...
* Zia Mahmood *
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 Gr ...


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 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

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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 susta ...
has published at
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audio-video interviews of numerous players including almost 30 members of its
Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actual halls or muse ...
. 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 Audrey Lindop Grant is a Canadian professional educator and a contract bridge teacher and writer known for her simple and humorous approach to the game. Grant is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Grant and the world champion player Eric Rodwell co ...
, 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 Gavin Wolpert (born 1984 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-American professional bridge player. Personal life Garvin Wolpert was born in Toronto, Ontario to a bridge playing family. His mother Hazel, a bridge teacher, started to teach him bridg ...

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 Mark Horton may refer to: * Mark Horton (archaeologist) (born 1956), British maritime and historical archaeologist, television presenter and writer * Mark Horton (bridge) (born 1950), British author, journalist and expert on bridge * Mary Ann Horto ...
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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 hav ...
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'' ( ...
'

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 Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (; March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, actor and pianist. He was the oldest brother in the Marx Brothers comedy troupe, alongside his brothers Adolph ("Harpo"), Julius ("Groucho"), Milton ...
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 An animal cracker is a particular type of cracker, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or a circus, such as a lion, a tiger, a bear, or an elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, bu ...
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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''. BBC.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 inf ...
'', 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 China, People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. Aft ...
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''

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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- ...
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Chico Marx Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (; March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, actor and pianist. He was the oldest brother in the Marx Brothers comedy troupe, alongside his brothers Adolph ("Harpo"), Julius ("Groucho"), Milton ...
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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 ...
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Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova ( cs, Martina Navrátilová ; ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech–American, former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 maj ...
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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 ...
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Omar Sharif Omar Sharif ( ar, عمر الشريف ; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub , 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the ...
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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 ...
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John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldes ...
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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, ...
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Fred M. Vinson Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to ...
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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 ...
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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 b ...
* List of bridge magazines * List of bridge competitions and awards


People with Wikipedia articles

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Terje Aa Terje Aa (born 16 March 1961) is a Norwegian bridge player, WBF World Life Master, and regular member of the Norwegian team since 1993. Teams on which he was a member have placed in the top three of the World Bridge Federation European and Worl ...
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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 ...
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Karen Allison Karen Allison is an American and Canadian bridge player and frequent Vugraph commentator. Allison was taught to play bridge by her parents. Allison is originally from New York and moved to Canada in 1973, however was still eligible to represe ...
* 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 A ...
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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 Russell D. "Russ" Arnold (March 6, 1921 – January 27, 2012) was an American bridge player. He was world champion at the 1981 Bermuda Bowl and winner of nine North American titles. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, he graduated from the Uni ...
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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 mast ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Boris Baran Boris Baran is a Canadian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Senior Teams Championship (1) 2002 * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** North American Pairs (1) 1991 ** Keohane North American Swiss Teams (4) 1992, 1994, 19 ...
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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 ...
* Roger Bates *
Grant Baze Grant Sheridan Baze (June 5, 1943 – January 11, 2009) was an American bridge player. As of 1994 he lived in San Francisco, California. Baze died in 2009. Baze was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2012. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ...
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Henry Beasley Lieutenant Colonel James Henry Mountiford Beasley DSO (28 March 1876 – 14 December 1949), known as Pops, was a British Army officer and a leading contract bridge personality in the early days of the game. Life Beasley was born in 1876 in Jhan ...
* B. Jay Becker *
Mike Becker Mike Becker was born in 1943 and is an American bridge player and official. Becker is from Boca Raton, Florida. He is a son of B. Jay Becker. As of 1979, Becker and Ron Rubin were partners in a New York City options firm and at the bridge tabl ...
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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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Richard Belton Richard Belton (8 July 1913 – 29 May 1974) was an Irish politician and medical doctor. He was elected to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel at the 1969 election, for Fine Gael. He lost his seat at the 1973 Seanad election. Other memb ...
* 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 ...
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Lisa Berkowitz Lisa Berkowitz (born 1952) is an American bridge player. She is from Old Tappan, New Jersey. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (17) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1986, 1987 ** Whitehead Women's Pairs (1) 2009 ** ...
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Huub Bertens Hubertus Johannes Antoinetta (Huub) Bertens (born 24 May 1960) is a Dutch professional bridge player previously from Tilburg, Netherlands, now living in Bend, Oregon (U.S.). Bertens has won numerous national and some international tournaments incl ...
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Peter Bertheau Peter Bertheau is a Swedish bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Olympiad Teams Championship (1) 2012 * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2003 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2004 ** R ...
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Thomas Bessis Thomas Bessis is a French bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * World Transnational Open Teams Championship (1) 2007 * Buffett Cup (1) 2008 * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Vanderbilt (2) 2010, 2012 **Norman Kay Platinum Pa ...
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Cheri Bjerkan Cheryl Lou "Cheri" Bjerkan (born 29 June 1947) is an American bridge player. She has won 14 North American Bridge Championships and one world championship. Bjerkan is from Elmhurst, Illinois. She lives in the Chicago area. Bjerkan won the women' ...
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Easley Blackwood Sr. Easley Rutland Blackwood (June 25, 1903 – March 27, 1992) was an American contract bridge player and writer, best known for the Blackwood convention used in bridge bidding. Biography Blackwood was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but lived most of ...
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Lou Bluhm Louis Edward Bluhm (March 22, 1940 – April 5, 1990) was an American bridge player. He played bridge professionally and was an expert at both poker and gin rummy, according to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). Bluhm, an accountant, wa ...
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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 regula ...
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Tim Bourke Tim Bourke is an Australian bridge player and writer. He is internationally renowned as a collector and composer of bridge hands, or , having composed most of those in David Bird's "Abbot" series since 1996. He also put together the world' ...
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Malcolm Brachman Malcolm Katzenstein Brachman (December 9, 1926 – January 11, 2005) was an American bridge player who won a world championship. Brachman was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Brachman was married to Minda Delugach Brachman, a high-ranking player in th ...
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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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Mildred Breed Mildred Breed (born 1947) is an American bridge player. Breed is from Austin, Texas. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (16) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (1) 2007 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (4) 1999, 2000, 20 ...
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Raymond Brock Raymond Slater Brock (14 October 1936 – 1 January 2008) was a leading England, English contract bridge, bridge player and then a long-time administrator. He was a member of the Great Britain team that finished second in both the 1987 Europe ...
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Boye Brogeland Boye Brogeland (born 1973) is a Norwegian professional bridge player. After a successful junior career, he won three Bermuda Bowl medals with the Norwegian team, including the gold in Shanghai 2007, and several North American Bridge Championships ...
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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 ...
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Chuck Burger Charles (Chuck) Frederick Burger (November 15, 1936 - March 25, 2021) was an American bridge player. Burger was from West Bloomfield, Michigan, and was an attorney. Bridge accomplishments Burger was an 11-time national bridge champion and elected ...
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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 '' ...
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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 ...
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Gerald Caravelli Gerald A. Caravelli (July 25, 1943 – February 29, 2012)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American bridge player. He was from Des Plaines, Illinois and was an accountant. Bridge accomplishments ...
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Drew Casen Drew Ara Casen (born July 6, 1950)Drew A Casen
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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, a ...
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Juanita Chambers Juanita Chambers (1956–2016) was a professional American bridge player from Schenectady, New York. She was world champion three times. Born Juanita Tah in Ponca City, Oklahoma, to an Apache father. She married Neil Chambers in 1983. She also c ...
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Bernie Chazen Bernie Chazen (1942 – 27 January 2009) was an American bridge player. Chazen was from Tamarac, Florida Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Rockwell Mixed Pairs (2) 1973, 2000 ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) ...
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Paul Chemla Paul Chemla (born January 2, 1944) is a famous French bridge player. Chemla was born in Tunis. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where he took up playing bridge. His wins include three European Pairs Championships (1976 wit ...
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Dennis Clerkin Dennis E. Clerkin (born 1950) is a professional American bridge player. Clerkin is from Bloomington, Indiana. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** North American Pairs (1) 1989 ** Grand National Teams (2) 19 ...
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George Coffin George Sturgis Coffin (September 8, 1903 – March 12, 1994) was an American writer and publisher of books on bridge and other games and a distributor of related books and supplies. He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, and died at Waltham–W ...
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Larry N. Cohen Larry Neil Cohen (born April 14, 1959) is an American bridge player, writer and teacher. He is best known as an advocate for the "Law of Total Tricks" as a guide in the . He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including ...
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Gary Cohler Gary Cohler is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 2010 ** Grand National Teams (5) 1995, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2 ...
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Chris Compton Chris Compton is an American bridge player. He is married to Donna Compton. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 2016 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2008 ** Reisinger (1) 1989 ** ...
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Donna Compton Donna Compton is an American bridge player. Compton won the World Mixed Pairs Championship in Philadelphia 2010 playing with Fulvio Fantoni from Italy. Compton owns a Bridge club in Dallas with her husband, Chris Compton, who is also a professiona ...
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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 ...
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Carol Crawford Carol Ann Crawford (February 22, 1934 – August 10, 1982), also known as Carol Stolkin and Carol Ross, was an American backgammon and bridge player from Buffalo, New York who spent many years in Detroit, Michigan. In 1973, she became the second ...
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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 Sar ...
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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 ...
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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. D ...
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Richard DeMartino Richard DeMartino (born 1939) is an American bridge player. DeMartino is from Riverside, Connecticut, and a graduate of Lehigh University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs ( ...
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Nikolay Demirev Nikolay Demirev is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** North American Pairs (1) 2005 ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (2) 2004, 2009 ** Nail Life Master Open Pairs (1) 2008 ** Wernher Open ...
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Seymon Deutsch Seymon Deutsch (May 18, 1935 – June 12, 2013) was an American bridge player. He started playing bridge as a student at the Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, alongside Bobby Wolff, but afterwards focused on a career in business. He retur ...
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Mike Develin Michael Lee Develin (born August 27, 1980) is an American mathematician known for his work in combinatorics and discrete geometry. Early life Mike Develin was born in Hobart, Tasmania. He moved to the United States with his Korean mother, li ...
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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 che ...
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Joshua Donn Joshua Samuel Donn (born June 1, 1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a multi national champion and a gold medal world junior champion in contract bridge. He is known as a bridge lecturer as well as author. He is the all-time leader of Richard Pavlice ...
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Albert Dormer Albert George Dormer (1925 – 18 March 2014) was an English bridge player, writer and administrator. Biography He won the Gold Cup in 1958 and 1963, and the World Senior Pairs in 1990 partnered by Alan Hiron. During his career as a bridge jou ...
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Giorgio Duboin Giorgio Duboin (born September 30, 1959 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has won four world teams championships along with six consecutive European teams championships and a seventh European in 2010. For many years hi ...
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Bill Edelstein Bill Edelstein (born c.1948) is an American bridge player. He is from Philadelphia. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs The Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs (or simply the Blue Ribbon Pairs) ...
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Russ Ekeblad Russell Alfred Ekeblad (August 17, 1946 – December 12, 2018) was an American bridge player from Portsmouth, Rhode Island and Jupiter, Florida. Ekeblad was born in Evanston, Illinois and was a graduate of Brown University. Bridge accomplishme ...
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Waleed El Ahmady Waleed El Ahmady is an Egyptian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 2004 ** Mitchell Board-a-Match Teams (1) 2012 ** Vanderbilt (1) 2009 ** von Zedtwitz Life Master P ...
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Morrie Elis Morris Elis (August 28, 1907 – May 31, 1992 in Lauderhill, Florida) was an American bridge player. Elis was from Lauderhill, and was a graduate of New York University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6 ...
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Milton Ellenby Milton Ellenby is an American bridge player. Ellenby is a World Champion, having won the Bermuda Bowl in 1954. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1953 Wins * Bermuda Bowl (1) 1954 * North American Bridge Championships (6) * ...
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Maria Erhart Maria Erhart (''née'' Kirner; 15 November 1944 – 2 September 2011), was an Austrian international bridge player, who had the rare distinction of playing for her country's Open team as well as for the Women's team.''Bridge Magazine'', December 2 ...
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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 ...
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Disa Eythorsdottir Hjördis "Disa" Eythorsdottir (born 24 July 1965) is an Iceland-born American bridge player. She is from Reykjavik. Eythorsdottir was stripped of a silver medal at the 2002 world championships in Montreal for refusing to take a drug test coveri ...
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Allan Falk Allan Falk is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (3) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs (1) 1997 ** Silodor Open Pairs (1) 1994 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1997 Runners-up * North American Bridge C ...
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Björn Fallenius Björn Fallenius (1957-2023) was a Swedish bridge player, for many years a resident of New York City. He and his late wife Kathy Fallenius operated the Cavendish Bridge Club. In world championship competition, Fallenius represented Sweden and w ...
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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 ...
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Mary Jane Farell Mary Jane Farell (March 12, 1920 – 5 October 2015), also known as Mary Jane Kauder, was an American bridge player. Farell grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and "couldn't wait to get home from school to kibitz whenever my mother had the game at our ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Marty Fleisher Martin (Marty) Fleisher (born October 12, 1958) is an American bridge player, employee benefits attorney, manager of investments in life insurance policies and investment advisor. Bridge career Having first learned bridge at the age of eight by ob ...
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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 ...
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Tony Forrester Anthony R. (Tony) Forrester (born 1953) is an English bridge player and writer. He is a British and English international and a World Bridge Federation World International Master. Forrester was a bridge columnist for ''The Daily Telegraph'' fro ...
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Gene Freed Eugene Horace Freed (March 18, 1930 – July 17, 2009) was an American bridge player and physician. Freed was a plastic surgeon from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from California State University, San Diego and University of Southern Cali ...
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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.
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Benito Garozzo Benito Garozzo (born 5 September 1927) is an Italian American bridge player. He won 13 world championship titles with the Italian Blue Team, starting in 1961 when he was added as a last minute substitute for the Bermuda Bowl, playing in regular ...
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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 ...
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Eldad Ginossar Eldad Ginossar (born 14 June 1981) is a professional bridge player from Israel. Ginossar won the European Open Teams Championship in Antalya, Turkey in June 2007 with his partner Ron Pachtman, and with the French father-son combination of Miche ...
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Fred Gitelman Frederick "Fred" Gitelman (born February 6, 1965) is a Canadian-American bridge player, developer of bridge software, and a founder of the online bridge platform Bridge Base Online. Biography Gitelman has won one world championship, nine North A ...
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Arthur S. Goldsmith Arthur S. Goldsmith (February 26, 1909 - February 3, 1995) was an American bridge player. Goldsmith is from Lyndhurst, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from Western Reserve University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * No ...
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Agnes Gordon Agnes Leslie Gordon (''née'' Willson, April 25, 1906 – May 24, 1967) was a Canadian bridge player. She was born in Ridgetown, Ontario and graduated from the University of Ontario. She moved to Buffalo, New York after her marriage in 1930, a ...
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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 ...
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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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Ross Grabel Ross Grabel (born 1950) is an American bridge player. He is from Huntington Beach, California. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 2013 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1998 * ...
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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 re ...
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Audrey Grant Audrey Lindop Grant is a Canadian professional educator and a contract bridge teacher and writer known for her simple and humorous approach to the game. Grant is from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Grant and the world champion player Eric Rodwell co ...
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Alan C. Greenberg Alan Courtney "Ace" Greenberg (September 3, 1927 – July 25, 2014) was a chairman of the executive committee of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. Early life and education Greenberg was born in Wichita, Kansas but raised in Oklahoma City in a ...
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Ari Greenberg Ari David Greenberg (born April 1, 1981 in Malibu, California) is an American world junior champion in contract bridge. A Stanford computer science graduate, Greenberg was previously employed Bridge Base, Google, and Facebook. He currently res ...
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Gail Greenberg Gail Harte Greenberg (born 1938) is a professional American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Gail Shane, Gail Moss, and Gail Moss Greenberg. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October) ...
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Glenn Grøtheim Glenn Frode Grøtheim (born 2 September 1959) is a Norwegian bridge player, WBF World Grand Master, winner of the 2007 Bermuda Bowl and a regular member of the Norwegian team since 1987. In 1980, at the age of just 21, he won a gold medal with th ...
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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 gradua ...
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Ace Gutowsky LeRoy Erwin "Ace" Gutowsky (August 2, 1909 – December 4, 1976) was a Russian-American professional American football fullback. He played professional football for eight years from 1932 to 1939 and set the NFL career rushing record in Octo ...
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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 decad ...
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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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Nicolas Hammond Nicolas Hammond is a British Rubik's Cube expert and businessman. He has lived in the US since 1986. He made the world's first Internet banking transaction. Early life Nicolas Hammond was born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a ...
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Harold Harkavy Harold Harkavy (November 29, 1915 – November 29, 1965) was an American bridge player, considered one of the world's best at play. He was originally from New York City, and served in Italy and Africa in World War II. He later from Miami Beach ...
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Maurice Harrison-Gray Maurice Harrison-Gray (13 November 1899 – 24 November 1968), known always as 'Gray', was an English professional contract bridge player. For about thirty years from the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties he was one of the top players. As a member ...
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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 Gr ...
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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 Octo ...
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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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Paul Hodge Paul Herbert Hodge (March 24, 1910 – December 26, 1976)"Hodge, Paul"
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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 ...
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Mark Horton Mark Horton may refer to: * Mark Horton (archaeologist) (born 1956), British maritime and historical archaeologist, television presenter and writer * Mark Horton (bridge) (born 1950), British author, journalist and expert on bridge * Mary Ann Horto ...
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Carl Hudecek Carl J. Hudecek (born December 3, 1934) is an American, internationally known expert on sealing glasses, metal expansion and contraction, and metal oxidation processes for glass sealing. Hudecek holds or co-holds many U.S. and international paten ...
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Edward Hymes Edward Hymes Jr. (December 4, 1908 – October 17, 1962) was an American bridge and chess player. Hymes was an attorney and was from New York City. At age 26, he joined the ACBL Laws Commission, which stipulates the rules of bridge. His mai ...
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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) ** Tru ...
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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 inaugur ...
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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 a ...
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Robert F. Jordan Robert Francis Jordan (October 31, 1927 – January 10, 2004)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American bridge player. During the 1960s he played on three North America or USA open teams that were ru ...
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Patrick Jourdain Patrick David Jourdain (1 November 1942 – 28 July 2016) was a British bridge player, teacher and journalist. Over six decades he played in more than seventy international matches for Wales, more than any other player. He was bridge correspond ...
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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, Calif ...
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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) * ...
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Kalin Karaivanov Kalin Karaivanov ( bg, Калин Караиванов, 29 January 1967 – 7 September 2019) was a Bulgarian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 2007 Runners-up ...
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Gaylor Kasle Gaylor L. Kasle (born 1941) is a professional American bridge player from Boca Raton, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (10) ** Leventritt Silver Ribbon Pairs (1) 2006 ** Wernher Open Pairs (1) 1993 ** ...
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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 ...
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George S. Kaufman George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and other ...
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Norman Kay Norman Kay may refer to: *Norman Kay (bridge) (1927–2002), American bridge player *Norman Kay (composer) (1929–2001), British composer *Norman Kaye Norman James Kaye (17 January 1927 – 28 May 2007) was an Australian actor and music ...
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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 wo ...
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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 li ...
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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- ...
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Betty Ann Kennedy Betty Ann Kennedy (March 13, 1930 – October 30, 2016) was an American bridge player from Shreveport, Louisiana. She won five world championships, including four from 1974 to 1984 in partnership with Carol Sanders of Tennessee and the 2003 Venice ...
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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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Richard Khautin Richard Lee Khautin (28 January 1940 – 3 October 1993) was an American bridge player from Brooklyn. His father, Isaac, was born Jacques Khautin in France to Russian-Jewish parents.''New York, New York, Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018'' B ...
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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 als ...
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Eric Kokish Eric O. Kokish (born 1947) is a Canadian professional bridge player, writer, and coach from Montreal. Kokish graduated from McGill University. In 1978, Kokish finished second in the World Open Pairs. Kokish has been the coach of Nick Nickell's p ...
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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 ( ...
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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 ...
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Warren Kornfeld Warren Kornfeld is an American bridge player. He was from New York City. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Blue Ribbon Pairs The Edgar Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs (or simply the Blue Ribbon Pairs) is a natio ...
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Valentin Kovachev Valentin (Val/Valio) Kovachev ( bg, Валентин Ковачев) (born May 6, 1964 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian professional bridge player who lives in Las Vegas. Career Kovachev has been playing professional bridge since 2003. Kovac ...
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Boris Koytchou Boris Koytchou (1919 – 30 April 2006)Obituary by Phillip Alder, New York Times News Service. Retrieved 2020-12-12 from the South Florida Sun Sentinel of May 6, 2006, page 35. was an American bridge player who played internationally both for Fran ...
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Jim Krekorian James E. Krekorian (born 1952) is a professional American bridge player from New York City. He is an options trader and a graduate from Duke University, where he lettered in track. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Herman Trophy (1) 2006 Wins ...
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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 contr ...
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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 ...
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Hemant Lall Hemant Lall (born 1951 in India) is an American bridge player from Nottingham and Dallas, Texas. His son, Justin Lall, was also a bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master ...
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Steve Landen Stephen W. "Steve" Landen (1952 – November 2017) was a professional American bridge player from West Bloomfield, Michigan. He was a computer consultant and graduated from University of Michigan. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Br ...
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Alvin Landy Alvin Landy (1905–1967) was an American bridge administrator and player. Creator of the Landy convention, he was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame in 1998. Bridge accomplishments Honors * ACBL Hall of Fame 1998 ...
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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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Kyle Larsen __NOTOC__ Kyle Alan Larsen (January 2, 1950 – August 21, 2012) was a professional American bridge player. He won two world titles: the 2001 Bermuda Bowl in Paris and 2006 Rosenblum Cup in Verona, as well as 12 national titles and 9 runners-up ...
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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 ...
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Sidney H. Lazard Sidney Herold Lazard (December 18, 1930 – November 3, 2015) was an American business leader in the oil and gas industries and a champion contract bridge player. He attended Tulane University and was a lifelong New Orleans resident until 2001, wh ...
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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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Peter Lee Peter Lee may refer to: *Peter Lee (bishop of Christ the King) (born 1947), England-born Anglican bishop, working in South Africa *Peter Lee (bishop of Virginia) (born 1938), American bishop of the Episcopal Church *Peter Lee (chess player) (born 19 ...
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James Lemon James Hanson Lemon Sr. (May 14, 1903 – July 20, 1977) was an investment banker from Washington, D.C. He is best known as the co-owner of the Washington Senators of the American League with James Johnston from through , and the principal owner ...
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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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Sam Lev Sam Lev is an Israeli bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Cavendish Invitational Pairs (2) 1992, 2004 * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Senior Knockout Teams (1) 2008 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (2) 1999, 2004 ** Reisinger ...
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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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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 cha ...
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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 late ...
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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 ** Mi ...
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Espen Lindqvist Espen Lindqvist is a Norwegian bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (2) 2014, 2017 Wins * Buffett Cup (1) 2008 * North American Bridge Championships (7) **Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (3) 2013, 2015, 2016 ** Spingold (2 ...
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Robert Lipsitz Robert H. Lipsitz (8 Oct 1942 - 10 May 2020) is an American bridge player from Annandale, Virginia. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs (1) 1976 ** Nail Life Master Open Pai ...
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Clyde E. Love Clyde Elton Love (December 12, 1882 – January 31, 1960) was an American contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a native of Bancroft, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michi ...
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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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Iain Macleod Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Researc ...
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Jim Mahaffey James Watson Mahaffey (November 2, 1936 – March 13, 2020) was an American bridge player. Personal life His father was Thomas Mahaffey Jr. and he had three siblings. He was married to Mary and together they had four children, James, William, M ...
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Tom Mahaffey Tom Mahaffey is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Spingold (1) 1985 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships (2) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (1) 1984 ** Spingold The ...
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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 ...
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Ed Manfield Edward Adam Manfield (May 1, 1943 – March 29, 1999) was a professional American bridge player. He was a member of the U.S. team that won the Rosenblum Cup at the 1986 World Bridge Championships, after taking silver in 1982. Biography Manfield ...
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Ronald Mansbridge Ronald Mansbridge (11 November 1905 – 1 September 2006) was a publisher and writer. He served for forty years as the U.S. representative for Cambridge University Press. He had also served briefly as Acting Director of MIT University Press and ...
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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. ...
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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 (previousl ...
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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 ...
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Karen McCallum Karen T. "Kate" McCallum (born 1946) is a professional American bridge player from Exeter, New Hampshire. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), she ranked 40th among 73 Women World Grand Masters by world master ...
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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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Rose Meltzer Rose Meltzer is an American bridge player. After completion of 2014 tournaments she was the only woman among 84 living Open World Grand Masters and she ranked 58th among them by World Bridge Federation (WBF) open masterpoints. For the 1999 to 200 ...
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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 ( ...
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Marion Michielsen Marion Susanne Michielsen (born 2 August 1985) is a Dutch- Swedish professional bridge player. At the annual World Bridge Federation (WBF) meet in October 2014, she played on teams that won two world championships. Thus she became a World Women ...
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Marshall Miles Marshall Lauren MilesState of California ( CA Birth Index). AFamily Tree Legends Retrieved 2009-07-02. (December 16, 1926 – February 5, 2013) was an American bridge player, teacher and writer. Bridge career Miles learned to play bridge largely ...
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Victor Mitchell Victor Mitchell (born December 12, 1965) is an American businessman and former legislator in Colorado. Since 2008, he has been CEO of Lead Funding, a national real estate lender. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican ...
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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 ...
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Victor Mollo Victor Mollo (17 September 1909 – 24 September 1987) was a British contract bridge player, journalist and author. He is most famous for his "Menagerie" series of bridge books, depicting vivid caricatures of players with animal names and ma ...
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Mark Molson John Markland "Mark" Molson (28 April 1949 – 19 January 2006) was a Canadian professional bridge player from Montreal and Fenton, Michigan. He was a member of the Molson family and attended Selwyn House School. Most frequently partnered with B ...
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Albert H. Morehead Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr. (August 7, 1909 – October 5, 1966) was a writer for ''The New York Times'', a bridge player, a lexicographer, and an author and editor of reference works. Early years Morehead was born in Flintstone, Taylor County, ...
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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 accomplis ...
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Dan Morse Dan Franklin Morse is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of the midwestern United States and the central Mississippi Valley, research summarized in a number of books, monographs, and technical articles. He is best known for his 1983 s ...
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Brad Moss Michael Brad Moss (born February 5, 1971) is an American bridge player from Berkeley, California and New York City. He is the son of Gail Greenberg. Bridge accomplishments Awards * ACBL King or Queen of Bridge (1) 1989 * ACBL Player of the ...
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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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Franck Multon Franck Multon is a French bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * Bermuda Bowl (1) 1997 * World Transnational Open Teams Championship (2) 2007, 2009 Eric Murray N *
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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Harold Ogust Harold Ogust (1917-April 24, 1978) was an American bridge player who invented the Ogust convention He was born and died in New York. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Reisinger (2) 1957, 1963 ** Spingo ...
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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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Lou Ann O'Rourke Lou Ann O'Rourke was an American bridge player. She died on Monday, December 16, 2019. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (1) ** Roth Open Swiss Teams (1) 2007 Runners-up * North American Bridge Championships ( ...
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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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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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Beth Palmer Mary "Beth" Palmer (August 14, 1952 – October 2, 2019) was an American bridge player from Chevy Chase, Maryland. She was an attorney. At the time of her death, she was 11th in the World Bridge Federation women's rankings by PPs (which do not age ...
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Richard Pavlicek Richard Pavlicek (born 1945) is an American bridge player, teacher, and writer from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Career Pavlicek began to play bridge in 1964 at the age of 18 while stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany, with the US Arm ...
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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-Great Britain, British ...
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Peter Pender Peter Alexander Pender (August 10, 1936 – November 18, 1990) was an American bridge player and figure skater from Forestville, California. He died of AIDS in San Francisco, California. Pender, who was born in Pennsylvania, an elite figure skat ...
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Carl'Alberto Perroux Carl'Alberto Perroux (also Carlo Alberto; 20 November 1905 – 20 August 1977), was an Italian contract bridge official, the founder and long-time non-playing captain of the Blue Team, the most successful team in bridge history. As Blue Team capta ...
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Olive Peterson Olive Stone Avery Peterson (January 20, 1898 – February 10, 1965)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''. Social Security Administration. was an American bridge player and teacher from St. Davids, Pennsylvania, on the Philadelphia Main Line. ...
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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 ...
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Sue Picus Susan Jean Picus (27 August 1948 – 17 November 2021) was an American bridge player from New York City. A graduate of NYU and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she had worked as a software engineering manager and director at Bell Laborat ...
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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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Rozanne Pollack Rozanne Marel Pollack (born April 29, 1948) is an American bridge player from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Dr. Pollack is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Columbia University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championsh ...
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Michael Polowan Michael Polowan is a bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1995 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (4) ** Jacoby Open Swiss Teams (3) 1999, 2004, 2011 ** Vanderbilt (1) 1995 Runners-up * North Ameri ...
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Helen Portugal Helen Portugal is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1962 ** Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1951, 1953 ** Smith Life Master Women's Pairs (1) 1961 ** ...
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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 Richard Anthony (Tony) Priday (13 August 1922 – 9 October 2014) was an English bridge player and journalist, who had a longstanding and successful partnership with Claude Rodrigue. He was a member of Great Britain teams that finished third in ...
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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 Worl ...
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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 ...
* Barbara Rappaport *
Stella Rebner Stella Rebner is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (5) ** Barclay Trophy (2) 1952, 1953 ** Chicago Mixed Board-a-Match (1) 1963 ** Wagar Women's Knockout Teams (2) 1957, 1962 Runner ...
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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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Doris Rhodes Doris Mary, Lady Rhodes (1898–1982) was Britain's leading female bridge player until the arrival of Rixi Markus. Rhodes was from London. Born Doris Mary Adams, she married Sir John Phillips Rhodes, 2nd Bt. She was described in the June 1947 iss ...
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Kay Rhodes Kathryn Mary "Kay" Rhodes (March 22, 1910 – June 19, 1996) was an American bridge player of New York City and later Rohnert Park, California. Rhodes was born in Washington, DC, on March 22, 1910, to parents with surnames Vandekoolwyk (father) a ...
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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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Jim Robison Jim Robison (born 1942) is a professional American bridge and poker player from Los Angeles, California. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** Lebhar IMP Pairs (1) 1998 ** Fast Open Pairs (1) 2001 ** Silodo ...
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Andrew Robson Andrew Michael Robson OBE (born 1964) is an English professional bridge player, writer and teacher. He is a British and English international. Robson is the bridge columnist for ''The Times'' and '' Country Life''. He was a member of the Gre ...
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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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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 tourna ...
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Debbie Rosenberg Debbie Rosenberg ( Zuckerberg; born 1969) is an American bridge player. Rosenberg is a four-time world champion, winning the World Mixed Teams Championship in 2018, the Venice Cup in 2007, the World Women Pairs Championship in 2002, and the World ...
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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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Dan Rotman Daniel "Danny" Rotman (born 1932) is a professional American bridge player from Aventura, Florida. Rotman is a retired businessman and graduated from Bradley University. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (6) ** ...
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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-edi ...
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Ira Rubin Ira Rubin (1930 – February 6, 2013) was an American professional contract bridge player. Rubin attended the Bronx High School of Science and later New York University. Rubin lived in Fair Lawn and resided in nearby Paramus for 35 years. Rubin ...
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Kerri Sanborn Sharon Lou "Kerri" Sanborn (born July 29, 1946) is an American bridge player from New York City. She has won major tournaments as Kerri Davis and Kerri Shuman as well. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October), Sanbo ...
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Carol Sanders Carol Melton Sanders (July 30, 1932 – August 28, 2012) was an American bridge player from Nashville, Tennessee. She was married to Thomas K. Sanders, also a bridge player. She won four world championships, all in partnership with Betty Ann Ke ...
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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 ...
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Meyer Schleifer Meyer Schleifer (February 9, 1908 – June 15, 1994) was an American bridge player from Los Angeles, California. Schleifer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, one of five children born to Jewish emigrant parents Jacob Schleifer and Anna Frankel ...
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Ron Schwartz Ron Schwartz is an Israeli bridge player ranked as a World Life Master by the World Bridge Federation. First appearing in international competition at the 1st World Junior Individual Championships in New York in 2004 where he placed 61st, Schwar ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Martin Seligman Martin Elias Peter Seligman (; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of positive psychology and of well-being. H ...
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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 competit ...
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Tim Seres Thomas Peter "Tim" Seres (1 April 1925 – 27 September 2007) was an Australian bridge player, generally considered among the best to represent the country internationally. He was a contributor to several magazines and awarded the Medal of the Or ...
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Omar Sharif Omar Sharif ( ar, عمر الشريف ; born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub , 10 April 193210 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. He began his career in his native country in the ...
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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 admini ...
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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 *
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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Dorothy Rice Sims Dorothy may refer to: *Dorothy (given name), a list of people with that name. Arts and entertainment Characters *Dorothy Gale, protagonist of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum * Ace (''Doctor Who'') or Dorothy, a character playe ...
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P. Hal Sims Philip Hal Sims (November 8, 1886 – February 26, 1949) was an American bridge player. In 1932 he was ranked by Shepard Barclay, bridge commentator of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', the second best player in the US during the preceding year.&nb ...
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Steve Sion Steve Sion is a former American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Fishbein Trophy (1) 1984 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (8) ** North American Pairs (1) 1984 ** Grand National Teams (1) 1989 ** Jacoby Open Swiss Team ...
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Helen Sobel Smith 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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Mike Smolen Michael Jerrold Smolen (November 18, 1940 – November 25, 1992) was an American bridge player from Chicago. He was the inventor of the popular Smolen convention, an extension of Stayman, which is employed when the partner of a 1NT opener shows ...
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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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Paul Soloway Paul Soloway (October 10, 1941 – November 5, 2007) was a world champion American bridge player. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship five times and won 30 North American Bridge Championships "national"-level events. Soloway was indu ...
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Peggy Solomon Margery Lee Golder Solomon (''née'' Mastbaum; August 14, 1908 – March 4, 1995), was an American bridge player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As Peggy Golder in 1942, she became ACBL Life Master number 33, the third woman to achieve the r ...
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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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Ivar Stakgold Ivar Stakgold (December 13, 1925 – May 29, 2018) was a Norwegian-born American academic mathematician and bridge player from Newark, Delaware. As the sole author of two books he specialized in boundary value problems (LCSH). Life Stakgold wa ...
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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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Allan Stauber Allan G. Stauber (born February 7, 1944) is an American bridge player from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Bridge accomplishments Awards * Mott-Smith Trophy (1) 1981 Wins * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Wernher Open Pairs (2) 1981, ...
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Samuel Stayman Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bib ...
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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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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 V ...
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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 accom ...
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Peggy Sutherlin Peggy Sutherlin née Berry (born 1937) is an American bridge player from Dallas, Texas. Sutherlin earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University and worked as an airline flight attendant. "When I applied for the job, I told them I wanted to b ...
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Ralph Swimer Ralph Swimer (14 October 1914 – 28 February 1998) was a British bridge player. He is best known as , or npc, of the 1965 Great Britain Bermuda Bowl team. During that World Bridge Federation championship tournament in Buenos Aires, the British ...
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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 the ...
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Tom Townsend Thomas George Townsend (born 19 February 1971) is an English professional bridge player and writer. Personal life Townsend was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge University. He lives in Shepherd's Bush, London, with Polish (in 20 ...
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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 ...
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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 W ...
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Alfredo Versace Alfredo Versace (born 4 June 1969) is an Italian professional bridge player. He has been a stalwart on Italian teams for two decades and has won many European and world championships. As of July 2014 he ranks fourth among Open World Grand Masters ...
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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 ...
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Ron Von der Porten Ronald P. "Ron" Von der Porten (born 1936) is an American bridge player from Orinda, California. Books * ''Introduction to Defensive Bidding'' (Prentice-Hall, 1967), 151 pp. * ''Introduction to Competitive Bidding'', Charles Goren and Von der ...
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Bep Vriend Brechiena (Bep) Vriend (born 1946) is a Dutch bridge player and teacher. She ranked number 8 among Women World Grand Masters as of April 2011 and number 20 among 69 WGM as of June 2014.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 K ...
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Rhoda Walsh Rhoda Walsh (born 1933) is an American Contract bridge, 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 Li ...
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Louis H. Watson Louis Henry Watson (September 27, 1906 – February 14, 1936) was a highly ranked American contract bridge player and writer who rose to prominence in the 1930s. A popular personality and one of the most brilliant of the younger generation of con ...
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C. C. Wei Chung Ching (C. C., Charles C.) Wei (July 12, 1914 – February 20, 1987) was a Chinese-born American businessman who created the Precision Club bidding system in contract bridge. Biography Wei was born in Sheng County, Zhejiang Province, China ...
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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 a ...
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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 (192 ...
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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, Illino ...
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Valerie Westheimer Valerie Westheimer is an American bridge player. Bridge accomplishments Wins * North American Bridge Championships (7) ** Machlin Women's Swiss Teams (2) 2000, 2003 ** Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams (2) 2001, 2002 ** Smith Life Master ...
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Berry Westra Berry Westra (born February 28, 1961) is a Dutch people, Dutch Contract bridge, bridge professional. At age 18 he made his debut with former bridge world champion Hans Kreijns in the ''meesterklasse'' (the highest competitive level in the Dutch b ...
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Charles Wigoder Charles Wigoder (born 2 March 1960) is an English telecommunications entrepreneur, associated with building both Peoples Phone and Telecom Plus (The Utility Warehouse) into substantial and successful businesses. Biography The son of The Right ...
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Adam Wildavsky Adam Wildavsky (born March 24, 1960) is an American bridge player from Jackson Heights, New York. Wildavsky began playing bridge while in high school in Oakland, California and continued while he earned a degree in computer science from MIT. Bri ...
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Sylvie Willard Sylvie Willard (born 7 August 1952) is a French bridge player. Sometime prior to the 2014 European and World meets (summer and October) ranked 4th among 73 living Women World Grand Masters by world masterpoints (MP) and 8th by placing points tha ...
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Chris Willenken Chris Willenken (born October 30, 1975) is an American bridge player. Born in New York City, Willenken graduated from Collegiate School in 1993 and Williams College in 1997. While at Williams, Willenken competed in the American Parliamentary D ...
* Eddie Wold *
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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Gavin Wolpert Gavin Wolpert (born 1984 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-American professional bridge player. Personal life Garvin Wolpert was born in Toronto, Ontario to a bridge playing family. His mother Hazel, a bridge teacher, started to teach him bridg ...
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Jenny Wolpert Jenny Wolpert née Ryman (born mid-1980s) is a Swedish American professional bridge player and teacher. Before emigrating to North America she played as Jenny Ryman (to 2007). Wolpert is a world champion, having been a member of the USA2 team tha ...
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Joel Wooldridge Joel Powhatan Wooldridge (born July 19, 1979) is an American multi national champion and world junior champion in contract bridge as well as an expert foosball player. In 1990, Wooldridge broke Sam Hirschman's previous record for the youngest to ...
* Kit Woolsey *
Sally Woolsey Sally Woolsey is an American bridge player. Woolsey has a silver medal in the 1994 Women's World Championship and three North American championships. She is married to Kit Woolsey, who is a many-time national and world bridge champion. Bridge ac ...
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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 Oswal ...
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Meike Wortel Meike Wortel (born 23 November 1982, Delft) is a Dutch bridge player. At the annual World Bridge Federation (WBF) meet in October 2014, she won one teams gold medal and one pairs silver medal. Thus she became a World Women Grand Master. In the Eu ...
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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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