Samuel M. Stayman was an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is best known for Stayman, one of the world's most popular bidding conventions; indeed, a day after writing his obituary Alan Truscott called him "the player best known in the world".
Richard A. Freeman was a world champion American bridge player holding the title of World Grand Master, the highest title of the World Bridge Federation. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship and won many national championships. Freeman was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2001. At the time of his death he held 17,880 masterpoints.
Waldemar K. von Zedtwitz was a German-born American bridge player and administrator.
B. Jay Becker was an American lawyer and bridge champion from Flushing, Queens.
Sidney Silodor 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. Silodor was a lawyer from Havertown, Pennsylvania.
Margaret Wagar was an American bridge player from Delaware, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia.
Harry J. Fishbein was an American bridge player and club owner. He used to be a professional basketball player. In teams-of-four competition, Fishbein was a runner-up for the world championship in the 1959 Bermuda Bowl, playing on the United States team in a three-way round-robin among Europe, North America, and South America representatives. Fishbein was "the presiding genius" of the famous Mayfair club [or Mayfair Bridge Club] for more than 20 years" – proprietor of the training ground of experts from 1943 to 1966. As of 1960 he was also ACBL Treasurer.
Charles Julius Solomon was an American bridge player, administrator, writer, and sponsor. He was Inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000.
Tobias Stone was an American bridge player and writer from New York City.
George Nicholas Rapée 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 teams-of-four tournaments, the Vanderbilt, Spingold, and Reisinger. He played on the American teams that won the first three Bermuda Bowls, 1950 to 1953.
Lee Hazen was an American attorney, bridge player and baseball player from New York City.
John Gerber was an American bridge player.
Solomon "Sol" Mogal was an American bridge player from Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He was born in New York on September 25, 1911. In the late 1930s, he became president of a Manhattan-based importing business, Mitchell Mogal. He died in Manhattan on April 6, 1989. He was 77 years old.
Albert "Dingy" Weiss was an American bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida.
Kathryn Mary "Kay" Rhodes was an American bridge player of New York City and later Rohnert Park, California.
Allan G. Stauber is an American bridge player from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Peter Alexander Pender was an American bridge player and figure skater from Forestville, California. He died of AIDS in San Francisco, California.
Peter A. Leventritt was an American bridge player, president of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) for 1945–1946. Leventritt was from New York City.
Jefferson B. Glick was an American bridge player.
William Pearson Grieve was an American bridge player from White Plains, New York. He was educated at Boston University and NYU, and was a computer programmer for IBM. Grieve won the Reisinger in 3 consecutive years, 1969, 1970, 1971. Grieve was an avid tennis player.
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