Fencing is a sport that attracts all kinds of different people. Here are some famous people divided by different categories. We bet some of the names will surprise you.

Actors
	Grace Kelly was trained to fence for her role in ‘The Swan’, Charles Vidor’s 1956 movie in which Grace Kelly played a princess who adores fencing.
	Jerry O’Connell, a 1995 graduate of NYU where he fenced saber, starred in his first movie, ‘Stand by Me’. After his NYU graduation, he was the lead in the T.V. show, ‘Sliders’ for five seasons and has been in films such as ‘Jerry Maguire’, ‘Scream 2’, and ‘Kangaroo Jack’.
	Charlie O’Connell fenced foil for NYU and competed against Nathan Anderson in 1996 NCAA championships. Like his brother, he has been featured in television and films, including the movie “Dude, where my car?” and was recently featured in the TV show The Bachelor.
	George Peppard was a fencing instructor before becoming famous in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ with Audrey Hepburn. He also starred in ‘The A-Team’ as Lt. Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith.
	Robert Redford fenced his director, George Roy Hill, on the set of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ according to DVD extras.

Fashion

Sandy Dalal, a former Teammate of Nathan Anderson at the University of Pennsylvania when he went by the name of Sanjiv Agashiwala, won in 1998 The Perry Ellis Award for Best New Menswear Designer. He was also named as one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in the same year. Sandy Dalal’s clothing can be found in prominent stores like Barney's, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Louis of Boston.

Film

Jessica Yu, a member of the 1986 USA National Fencing Team that competed at the World Championships, won an Academy Award for her documentary Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien. At the 1997 Academy Awards Ceremony, she said, "You know you've entered new terrain when your outfit costs more than your film." She has directed episodes of hit shows like 'E.R.' and 'The West Wing', according to www.IMDB.com.

Military
	General George S. Patton Jr. competed the 1912 Stockholm Olympics in the Modern Pentathlon. He placed fifth overall. In 1913, he arrived at Mounted Service School in Fort Riley, Kansas. He became the school’s first Master of the Sword and taught classes in swordsmanship.

Music
	Bruce Dickerson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden, fences and owns the British fencing equipment maker, The Duellist. http://www.duellist.com
	Jimmy Buffett, famous for his Margaritaville song, enjoys fencing.
	Neil Diamond was a New York University saber fencer before his career as an entertainer.

Politicians:
	Harry Truman, the Unites State President, fenced in his youth in Missouri.
	Theodore Roosevelt, the United State President, had said in his autobiography, “While President I used to box with some of the aides, as well as play single-stick [wood version of fencing] with General Wood.”
	Winston Churchill, the famous British Prime Minister, won Public Schools Fencing championship in foil in his youth.

Writers:
	Ezra Pound, the famous American poet on the left, became fencing master and secretary to the great Irish Poet W. B. Yeats, on the right, after meeting him in 1912. William Butler Yeats started learning to fence at age forty-eight. Eleven years after learning to fence, Yeats won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
	Rene Descartes, was a fencing master along with being a philosopher. Fencers still borrow his famous phrase to create the classic fencing t-shirt phrase, “I fence therefore I am”.
	Alexander Dumas, the famous writer of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, participated in duels. His expertise in sword fighting clearly comes through in his prose.
	Writer and Explorer Richard Burton fenced, fought, and “was throughout his life an ardent student of the theory, and an acknowledged master of the practice, of the art of swordsmanship” according to the arms curator Forbes Seiveking. Some of his fame derives from his notorious for his visit to Mecca and his translation of One Thousand and One Nights.