List of tournament Scrabble players

This list of tournament Scrabble players includes people who have played Scrabble at the tournament level and have an article on English Wikipedia.

Players

Name Country First tournament year Notes
Will Anderson  United States 2009 2017 National Scrabble Championship winner (NWL)[1]
Ganesh Asirvatham  Malaysia 1998 2007 World Scrabble Championship runner-up;[2] former Guinness World Record holder for playing the greatest number of simultaneous Scrabble games (2007)[3]
Moiz Ullah Baig  Pakistan 2012[4] 2013 World Youth Scrabble Championships winner; 2018 World Junior Scrabble Championships winner[5]
Conrad Bassett-Bouchard  United States 2004 2014 National Scrabble Championship winner (NWL)[6]
Craig Beevers  United Kingdom 2009 2014 World Scrabble Championship winner[7]
Hervé Bohbot  France 2003
Germain Boulianne[8]  Canada 2003
David Boys  Canada 1985 1995 World Scrabble Championship winner;[9] 2003 Canadian National Scrabble Championship winner
Brian Cappelletto  United States 1985 1991 World Scrabble Championship runner-up; 2001 World Scrabble Championship winner; 1998 National Scrabble Championship winner; 2008 and 2010 National Scrabble Championship runner-up[10]
Barry Chamish  Israel 1980s[11]
Evan Cohen  Israel 1991
Michel Duguet  France 1982
Joe Edley  United States 1978 1980, 1992, and 2000 National Scrabble Championship winner[12]
David Eldar  Australia 2005 2006 World Youth Scrabble Championships winner; 2016 North American Scrabble Championship winner (CSW);[13] 2017 World Scrabble Championship winner[14]; 2023 World Scrabble Championship[15] winner
Stefan Fatsis  United States 1997
Robert Felt  United States 1982 1990 National Scrabble Championship winner; 1991 National Scrabble Championship runner-up[16]
Andrew Fisher  Australia 1991
Darryl Francis  United Kingdom 1999
Roxane Gay  United States 2011
David Gibson  United States 1986
Helen Gipson  United Kingdom 1999
Matt Graham  United States 1991 1997 World Scrabble Championship runner-up[17]
Eric Harshbarger[18]  United States 2001
Deen Hergott  Canada 2008
Stewart Holden  United Kingdom 2003
Wellington Jighere  Nigeria 2002
Cheryl Kagan  United States 2008
W. P. Kinsella  Canada 1998
Jim Kramer  United States 1983 2006 US Scrabble Open winner[19]
Harshan Lamabadusuriya  United Kingdom 1999
Adam Logan  Canada 1985
Michael McKenna  Australia 2013 2012 World Youth Scrabble Championships winner[20]
Mack Meller  United States 2010[21]
Andrea Carla Michaels[22]  United States 1990
Antonin Michel  France 1987
Peter Morris  United States 1980 1989 National Scrabble Championship winner; 1991 World Scrabble Championship winner[23]
Pakorn Nemitrmansuk  Thailand 1992
Rita Norr  United States 1980 1987 National Scrabble Championship winner[24] and only woman to ever win a national championship in North America[25]
Mark Nyman  United Kingdom 1983 1993 World Scrabble Championship winner;[26] 1999 World Scrabble Championship runner-up;[27] 2016 World Scrabble Championship runner-up[28]
Annette Obrestad  United States 2022
Trip Payne  United States 1995
Paul Phillips  United States 2002
Christian Pierre  Belgium 1990s
Sal Piro  United States 1992
Chris Reslock  United States 1979
Nigel Richards  New Zealand 1997
Chrystal Rose  United Kingdom 2008
Eric Rosen  United States 2024
Joel Sherman  United States 1988 1995 World Scrabble Championship runner-up;[9] 1997 World Scrabble Championship winner; 1998 Brand's Crossword Game King's Cup winner; 2002 National Scrabble Championship winner; 2018 North American Scrabble Championship winner (NWL)[29]
David Shulman  United States 1977
Allan Simmons  United Kingdom 1988
Brett Smitheram  United Kingdom 1999 2016 World Scrabble Championship winner[26]
Josh Sokol  Canada 2005
Clive Spate  United Kingdom 1991
Panupol Sujjayakorn  Thailand 2001 2003 World Scrabble Championship winner;[30] 2005 Brand's Crossword Game King's Cup winner; 2005 National Scrabble Championship runner-up
Dario De Toffoli  Italy
Joel Wapnick  Canada 1977 1983 National Scrabble Championship winner; 1993 World Scrabble Championship runner-up; 1999 World Scrabble Championship winner;[31] 2001 World Scrabble Championship runner-up
Robert Watson  United States 1979 1988 National Scrabble Championship winner[32]
Dave Wiegand  United States 1985
Winter  United States 2003
Trey Wright  United States 1993 2004 National Scrabble Championship winner[33]

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