Non - Chess celebrity who played chess..

I wonder who might be the most celebrated personality in human history who was not a chess player by profession, yet played chess as a hobby?

Lenin, Gorky and Che are a few that comes to my mind!

 Che in his USSR visit at a Chess game.

This pic shows Lenin and Bogdanov (a Bolshevik leader )playing Chess being watched by Maxim Gorky (standing)

Tolstoy playing chess.

Any other celebrities come to mind , friends?

Looks like they do not!

The first two that spring to my mind are Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Napolean was kinda famous, too.

http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-celebrity-chessplayer

Yes, his encounters with the " Turk" are hilarious, if anythinga!

Stanley Kubrick (film director) was apparently quite good at the game...

Surely , there must be more , friends!

i think Lennox Lewis is rated about 1900

Let's make it happen!

Vladimir Nabokov

Robert E. Lee

But Jan Timman doubts the authenticity of the stereotypical photo of Lenin playing chess.

And I myself am skeptical regarding this etching:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6130672/Pictured-Hitler-playing-chess-with-Lenin.html

Aleister Crowley

Nobody mentions Einstein and Oppenheimer?  Curious.

According to his biographer Pais, Einstein didn't like games at all.

Hitler: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6130672/Pictured-Hitler-playing-chess-with-Lenin.html

Although I guess that's more in the 'infamous' than 'celebrated' category.

Bogie and Frank Sinatra for sure. They often played each other. A similar pair these days would be Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Hitler didn't play chess and neither did Stalin - maybe a good sign.

Both of these dictators played chess.