Chess (surname)

Chess is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Edwin R. Chess (1913–2000), United States Air Force general
• Jamar Chess (born 1980s), American music manager
• Leonard Chess (1917–1969), record company executive
• Lisa Chess, American actress
• Marshall Chess (born 1942), American record producer
• Mary Chess (1878–1964), American perfumer
• Phil Chess (1921–2016), American record producer
• Richard Chess (poet) (born 1953), American poet
• Richard B. Chess (born 1953), American politician
• Sammie Chess, Jr. (1934–2022), American attorney, civil rights activist, and judge
• Stanley Chess, American legal commentator
• Stella Chess (1914–2007), American child psychiatrist

• Harry Chess, main character of the comic strip Harry Chess: That Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.
• Jane and Ryan Chess, characters in the 2016 American workplace teen comedy movie Hickey