Cao Cao (155 AD - 220 AD), self-appointed "prime minister" in the Han Dynasty at the beginning of the Three Kingdom Period in China, was a passionate Go player.
His sons, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang, were known to play Go, too. A set of Go stones had been found at the tomb of Cao Cao's grandfather.
A scholar of Cao Cao, Wang Can, wrote Weiqi Fu Xu.