Grandmaster

Grandmaster

Grandmaster may refer to:

In superior skill or position:
*Grandmaster (chess)
*Grandmaster (martial arts)
*Grand Master (order), the head of various orders
**Grand Masters of the Knights Templar
**List of Grand Masters of the Knights Hospitaller
**Grand Masters of the Teutonic Knights
**Grand Master (Masonic)
*Grand Master Award, a writer's award
*Grandmaster or Master craftsman, a member of a guild
*Grand Master of Education, Science, and Culture Francisco Macías Nguema (1924 - 1979), the first president of Equatorial Guinea
*Grand Master Fiddler Championship, Nashville, Tennessee, [http://www.grandmasterfiddlerchampionship.com/ website]

In modern culture:
*"Grandmasters" (album), an album by DJ Muggs and GZA
*Grandmaster (DC Comics), a character in DC Comics
*Grand Master (Jedi), Order of the Jedi in "Star Wars"
*Grandmaster (Marvel Comics), a character in Marvel Comics
*Grandmaster Flash Joseph Saddler (born 1958), a hip-hop musician and disc jockey
*Grand Master Robo, supervillain in the Indian Raj Comics universe

Comedian and latter-day conservationist Bill Oddie played a character who became a grandmaster of Ecky Thump in Kung Fu Kapers.


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