The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Uganda
This page contains a list of the greatest Ugandan Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Uganda. This makes Uganda the birth place of the 58th most number of Chess Players behind Albania, and Egypt.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ugandan Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Ugandan Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Phiona Mutesi (b. 1996)
With an HPI of 30.89, Phiona Mutesi is the most famous Ugandan Chess Player. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Phiona Mutesi (born 28 March 1996) is a Ugandan chess player. She has represented Uganda at four Women's Chess Olympiads, and is one of the first titled female players in Ugandan chess history. Mutesi is the subject of a 2012 book and a 2016 film called Queen of Katwe.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Ugandan chess players born between 1996 and 1996. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ugandan chess players include Phiona Mutesi.
