Judit Polgar
Chess Player
Hungarian chess grandmaster who is indisputably the greatest female chess player of all time.
She and her sister, Sofia, grew up in the spotlight as chess prodigies and she achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, the youngest person to do so until then.
She is the only female chess player to defeat a number one ranked player and she has done so more than ten times.
Her family is full of chess masters.
She has defeated chess legend Boris Spassky.