Chess (surname)

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

• Jamar Chess, American music manager
• Leonard Chess, record company executive
• Lisa Chess, American actress
• Marshall Chess (born 1942), American record producer
• Mary Chess, perfumer
• Phil Chess (1921–2016), American record producer
• Richard Chess (poet) (born 1953), American poet
• Richard B. Chess, American politician
• Stanley Chess, American legal commentator
• Stella Chess, American child psychiatrist

• Jane and Ryan Chess, characters in the 2016 American workplace teen comedy movie Hickey