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Two very current lefties: Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck.
Deepak ‘Novodit’ is also left hander,a famous poet of Nepal.
Rafa Nadal is a naturwl rightie who plays tennis leftie … not part of the club
Richard Hatch(Battlestar Galactica 1978,who played as Captain Apollo) is a left hander!!
Did I notice correctly that both Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, as depicted in the recent modern version of the tales of the sleuth and his hapless colleague, were both left-handed?
I refer to the actors Benedict Cumberpatch and Martin Freeman, of course.
However, the quirky quality of the series was made special for a left-hander (me), as it suggested a pair of leftie lateral-thinking brains, that we ’sinisters’ know are superior thinkers……
Danny Jones from McFly is a leftie!
Eminem…watch the Stan video , 50 Cent , Lady Gaga, Mike Skinner from The Streets, Julianne Morris. That was a fun 5 mins of research lol
To Drina, you’re right about most of those people being left-handed except you made a spelling mistake on Mr. Cyrus’s middle name, his name is spelled like this: Billy Ray Cyrus, with a “y” not an “e”
JUSTIN BIEBER IS A LEFTY!
So is Marilyn Monroe. Kate Hudson. Tina Fey. Will Farrell. Billy Rae Cyrus. Aaaand I made a list of my left handed buddies and I have 12… In my Grade. Not to mention me.(:
And don’t forget michleangelo, einstien, Benjamin Franklin and aristole.
I love watching icarly bcos im a little girl but i saw a video and freddie benson/nathan kress was a lefty <3
Apart from Barak Obama also John McCain is left handed. If I may cite :
“As of 2009, three (four if Reagan is counted) out of the last five presidents have been left-handed.[3] Counting as far back as Truman, the number is five (or six) out of twelve. In the 1992 election, all three major candidates – George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot – were left-handed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Someone I know got caught by his mother whilst having a wank with his left hand.
He has always been predominantly right handed and so felt naturally ashamed.
I am absolutely fascinated with Bill’s comment about Adam and Eve! Thanks Bill, I think your insights are amazing! Now, I want to read up on that and start pondering the spiritual symbolism of left verses right in the scriptures.
Thanks Connie, …. Well it was fun and was all done “tongue in cheek”.
I read once that a left handed boxer has an advantage in the ring due to I guess that most of all the sparring partners are right handed and that’s the Leftie has to sparr with right handed boxers, but the Rightie think they don’t have to adapt when they are boxing Lefties.
Retired Russian tennis player Alexander Volkov is a left hander.
my three kids and i are left handed. We live in Nigeria a place that is still not left hander friendly. Growing up i faced a lot of abuse, discrimination and used to feel inadequate. Up to today i hate writng in public. i counsel my children on not to hand items to people with their left hands because in our society its regarded as disrespecful. Now that we have a state governor who is left handed attitudes may begin to change.
i am leftie,Kenya’s best are all lefties.we rule the 90%.
Bart Simpson from “The Simpsons” is left handed.
Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe in “Friends”)
Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas is also left-handed, so is Fernando Verdasco, Spanish professional tennis player.
Spanish Tennis Player Feliciano Lopez is also a left hander.
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State, Nigeria is a lefty. He is doing well and we are proud of him.
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, the executive governor of Lagos State, Nigeria is a lefty.He is presently the best nigerian governor. We are proud of him.
Alexander the great was left-handed.And i think julius ceasar too
Lady Diana, Jeanne D’ Arc, Albert Einstein, Merilyn Monroe were also left-handed. Bill Clinton, David Bowie, Ben Stiller, Paul Mc Cartney, George Michael, Sting –> left-handed, too! We are too many, at least!
Marilyn Monroe was right handed, saw photo of her signing an autograph..
Robert Patrick is also the narrator of the program “Disorderly Conduct” from Cherri Sundae Productions that is transmitted on SpikeTV in USA and is a left hander.
just found out on an article on “La Vanguardia” that artist Neil Harbisson, the World’s first official cyborg, is also left handed, “zurdo” in spanish
here’s the article:
http://www.lavanguardia.es/free/edicionimpresa/20100710/53961073929.html
Jurgen Meltzer is a tennis player from Austria and is a left hander..Baseball players Jim Eisenrach and Jim Kaat are both left handers.
I aiso believe Nelson Malemo from Kenya is a great leftie
Yeah!He is a great leftie know for his great guotes and lovely poems.
Dada Gangulyis also left hander
Kenneth M. Cadow is also left handed. He wrote the book Alfie runs away.
James Caviezel, an American actor is left-handed.
Vlad Zamfirescu, a Romanian actor is also left-handed.
Owen Wilson(Chris Burnette,Behind Enemy Lines)and Robert Patrick(T-1000 Terminator 2:Jugdement Day)are another overlooked left handers!!
The great Bob Dylan is left-handed. Yes, he plays guitar righty… but he’s a lefty. I’ve seen him play left-handed as well!
Tony iommi of Black Sabbath & Jimi Hendrix as well.
With Barack Obama and David Cameron both lefties, we already rule the world!
Don’t you all realize who the most famous left handed person was???
The first person ever created on this Earth was left handed!! Don’t belive me?
Well just take a look at the “Creation of Adam” in the Sistine Chapel
Now, just what hand is Adam reaching out to God?? … Of course it’s his Left.
Now “Eve”, that Woman! Was right handed, yes, right handed! Just take a look at the painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder titled. “Adam and Eve”. Well, Eve is tempting Adam, she is holding the apple out to Adam in her right hand. She was probably created out of a rib on Adam’s right side. Now Adam is reaching out for the apple with …you guessed it his LEFT hand.
The moral of this story is, “If God had used a rib from Adam’s Left side maybe the World wold would be 90% Lefties and 10% Rghties”.
Well, anyways he took the apple and the rest, well seems better than just eating an apple. That is, if the apple was just a medaphor.
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Well, that’d be great, if you actually believe in that. I don’t. I was brought up irreligious and have always been. I’d be more partial to those much older religions if I was religious. Another thing overlooked is that it is apparently an apple, this is just a mix-up in translation. Apple was a word once used to describe what we would refer to now as ‘Fruit’.
I think it’s great that Obama is left-handed as well as him being a Trekkie as well.
But David Cameron has sort of spoilt it.
Strange that I never noticed it before, but it’s true!
Female tennis player Patty Schnyder is left-handed.
Justin Beiber is left handed. ahahahahaha.
The Cuban former pitcher of modest personality from Baltimore Orioles,Mike Cuéllar,who was famous of his brilliant screwball.died in a Good Friday,April 2,2010 at a hospital in Orlando,Florida.He was 72 years old.Mike Cuéllar left his wife,Myriam,his daughter Lydia and his son MIke Cuéllar Jr.Mike Cuéllar was CLEARLY LEFT HANDED(THREW LEFT/BATTED LEFT)!!
Walter Steigh Cabrera(a student who was a victim of crime for murder in Puerto Rico back in 1997 and his murderers are still at large)was also left-handed.R.I.P.
John Cena (WWE Superstar) is a Lefty and so is Shawn Michaels and The Miz
US Eric Axley,Steve Flesch and Bubba Watson are all of them OVERLOOKED LEFT-HANDED GOLFERS!!Yekaterina Makarova is another OVERLOOKED LEFT-HANDED TENNIS PLAYER from Russia!!Puerto Rican guitarrist Antonio Cabán Vale is another OVERLOOKED LEFTY!!
J.Ahola on vasuri… ihana mies ja loistava laulaja…
Translation:
J. Ahola is a lefty …. a wonderful man and a wonderful singer…
I noticed that the woman who plays Lois Lane on Smallville, Erica Durance, is left-handed.
I think Smallville’s cast are mostly right-handed… And I don’t think Clark Kent (Tom Welling) is left-handed…
Are there any right-handed people on “Smallville.” Everyone seems left-handed. I think I noticed that Lois Lane is a lefty. So are Lex and Lionel Luthor, and I THINK Clark Kent.
Jarkko Ahola, the bass-player of Teräsbetoni (a Finnish hardrock band) is left handed. I first noticed it at the Eurovision Song Contest last year, and then found Youtube videos that show the same.
David Bowie is left handed
well, Kurt Cobain who covered David’s song “the man who sold the world” was lefty and he was the king of GRUNG …and lets not forget Jimmy Hendrix who was a genius Guitar player and at those time he had to string a right handed Guitar backwards to play, R.I.P to both of them
Hang on, I thought Hendrix was right handed, but played left handed due to the fact that people play naturally better guitar if they play opposite to the hand they favour. Thus the favoured hand is doing the most dextrous job. I.e. In a right-handed person, the right hand fingers the chords if they play left-handed.
I’m sure of the general theory (I’m a left-hander who plays right-handed guitar) but can’t be certain of hendrix’s actual preference. I just remember hearing somewhere that he only played left-handed because it meant his (prefered) right-hand did the work.
wikipedia anyone?
watched a recent re run of starsky and hutch. the episode concerned the two cops escorting the daughter of a reformed mobster across america. in one particular scene dave starsky( paul michael glaser) is seen signing for plane tickets left handed
Puerto Rican wrestlers Eddie(Primo)and Carly Colón(Carlito Caribbean Cool)are both left-handed.They are still wrestling in WWE as “The Colons”.
Spanish Tennis Player Feliciano López(ranked 41th) is left-handed!!He was defeated by Rafael Nadal,another leftie at the China open in Shangai at the semifrinal.
Re: This years F.A. Cup 2009 The Referee Howard Webb is left-handed and will probably be in action in next years World Cup(2010)So maybe you should add him to your list of sports people operating at the top of their particular sport. As I said before I have a photograph of my son Ezra(left-handed football referee) at the eve -of the-cup final rally with Howard Webb but they both shook hands right handed.