Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) diary reveals an obsession to backgammon; the 3rd president of the United States used to document the result of every backgammon game he played. His diary is filled with remarks such as "lost at backgammon 1/3" and "won at backgammon 7 1/2d", proving that even the preparation of the Declaration of Independence did not stop him from practicing the game.

Charles Darwin, (1809-1882) the British naturalist and the author of the controversial "The Descent of Man" and "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", has also been recording the scoring of his backgammon games. Darwin kept the habit of playing two backgammon games with his wife Emma everyday between 8:00 and 8:30 PM.

Lucille Ball (1911-1989) is mostly remembered as Lucille "Lucy" Esmeralda McGillicuddy Ricardo, the jolly housewife who entertained America TV viewers for almost three decades in I Love Lucy and its sequels. However, it is less known that the lady spent her retirement years playing backgammon on a daily basis.

The Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford (1904-1977) (not related to John Crawford, the inventeor of the Crawford Rule), was also a keen backgammon player. She was photographed playing the game with two of her husbands (out of four) and throughout the last decade of her life she became the personal backgammon tutor of publicist Carl Johnes of Columbia Studios.
Hugh Heffner (born 1926) the founder of Playboy Enterprise, which includes the famous magazine and the lifestyle attributed to the brand, is a big supporter of the backgammon game. During backgammon heydays in the 70s, Hef had published Playboy's Book of Backgammon by Lewis Deyong in his famous magazine, organized backgammon parties at his infamous mansion and even co-owned a backgammon club in LA named Pips, after the dots that represent the numbers on the backgammon dice.