Samuel M. "Sam" 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".
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.
Sami R. Kehela, sometimes spelled Sammy Kehela, is a Canadian contract bridge player. A member of the Hall of Fames of both the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) and the Canadian Bridge Federation, he and his long-time partner Eric Murray are considered two of the best Canadian players in the history of the game.
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.
Ira Rubin 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.
Waldemar K. von Zedtwitz was a German-born American bridge player and administrator.
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.
Curtis Scott Cheek is an American bridge player. Cheek is from Huntsville, Alabama and is an aerospace engineer.
Mike Becker was born in 1943 and is an American bridge player and official. Becker is from Tenafly, New Jersey. He is a son of B. Jay Becker.
Charles U. "Chip" Martel is an American computer scientist and bridge player.
Lewis Lawrence Mathe was an American world champion bridge player and administrator from Canoga Park, California.
Tobias Stone was an American bridge player and writer from New York City.
Ruth Therese Sherman 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.
Lee Hazen was an American attorney, bridge player and baseball player from New York City.
Richard Lincoln "Dick" Frey was an American contract bridge player, writer, editor and commentator. From New York City, he died of cancer there in 1988.
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.
Merwin D. "Jimmy" Maier was an American attorney and bridge player from New York City, He was a member of the Four Aces from 1937 until his death in New York in 1942 from an unknown virus.
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.
Hugh Lennox Ross was an American bridge player from Oakland, California.
