Jeffrey John (Jeff) Meckstroth 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 triple crown of bridge: the Bermuda Bowl, the World Open Pairs and the World Team Olympiad. As of May 16, 2016, he was the fifth-ranking World Grand Master. For decades Meckstroth has been in a regular partnership with Eric Rodwell and together, nicknamed "Meckwell", they are one of the most successful bridge partnerships of all time. They are well known for playing an aggressive and very detailed system that derived from Precision Club.
Larry Neil Cohen 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 bidding. He has won 25 North American Bridge Championships (NABC) events including the Vanderbilt, two Spingolds, two Reisingers, three Life Master Pairs, and four Blue Ribbon Pairs, and he is a two-time winner of the Cavendish Invitational Pairs cash prize tournament.
David Burnstine was a leading tournament contract bridge player of the 1930s. He changed his name to David Bruce after he retired from competition in 1939.
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.
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.
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.
Thomas Koonce Sanders, Sr. was an American bridge player from Nashville, Tennessee. He was married to Carol Sanders, a women's teams world champion player.
Edith Freilich née Seamon was an American bridge player, "one of the world's greatest female bridge players". As a player in important tournaments, she was also known as Edith Seligman, Edith Kemp, and Edith Kemp Freilich. Among women, she is second to Helen Sobel Smith for winning the greatest number of North American Bridge Championships. She was from Miami Beach, Florida.
Sam Lev is an Israeli bridge player.
Richard Kahn (1912-1987) was an American bridge player.
Victor Mitchell was an American bridge player. He was married to Jacqui Mitchell. He was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame in 1996.
Espen Lindqvist is a Norwegian bridge player.
Steve Sion is a former American bridge player.
Alvin Landy (1905–1967) was an American bridge administrator and player.
Bruce Elliott is a Canadian bridge player.
Percy Sheardown (1911–1993) was a Canadian bridge player.