The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 54th most number of Chess Players behind Mexico, and Chile.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Australian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Walter Browne (1949 - 2015)
With an HPI of 49.93, Walter Browne is the most famous Australian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Walter Shawn Browne (10 January 1949 – 24 June 2015) was an Australian-born American chess and poker player. Awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 1970, he won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Australian chess players born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Australian chess players include Walter Browne. As of April 2024, 1 new Australian chess players have been added to Pantheon including Walter Browne.
