The truth for all you blind people out there.(it will hurt, sry)
Most of you guys are righties. 90 percent of us are. Psychologically you are considered a superficial thinker. The 10 remaining percent goes to the lefties. They are creatively dominant and are more prone to take risks. Here is some proof to you delusionals who think u're creative. You can see from that list that history was shaped by lefties. No one single righty was considered truely brilliant/genius before.
The right side of the brain is dominant in creativity(lefties are dominant in this side) and the left side is more logical(righties). But most lefties control both sides equally because it takes a creative mind to trigger to the other side.
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Originally Posted by scentless
Neat copy and past from wiki, but what's your point??
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My point is to shut down these delusional f ucks that slow and waste our time/money on movies/cars/investments etc etc
Most of you will deny this because most people are cocky n delusional but you will see as you pay attention from now on.
Prove me wrong
Here's the list of famous lefties from wikipedia.
Contents
1 Definition and guide
2 Royalty and nobility
3 Political and governmental leaders
3.1 USA
3.2 Other nationalities
4 Criminals
5 Artists
6 Authors
7 Musicians and composers
7.1 A-C
7.2 D-F
7.3 G-J
7.4 K-M
7.5 N-R
7.6 S-Z
8 Actors/actresses
9 Film directors
10 Athletes
10.1 American Football
10.2 Baseball
10.3 Basketball
10.4 Billiards and snooker
10.5 Bowling
10.6 Boxing
10.7 Cricket
10.8 Fencing
10.9 Figure-skating
10.10 Football (soccer)
10.11 Golf
10.12 Ice Hockey
10.13 Motor sport
10.14 Rugby Union
10.15 Tennis
10.16 Wrestling and professional wrestling
10.17 Team Handball
10.18 Other sports
11 Philosophers
12 Miscellaneous
13 Disputed left-handed people / Ambidextrous
14 References
15 See also
16 External links
[edit] Definition and guide
A left-hander is a person who is more skillful with the left hand than with the right. A left-hander will probably (but is not required to) use the left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on.
Writing with right hand alone does not necessarily indicate one's right-handedness. The world is right-handed-dominant, and many natural born left-handers were forced to write with their right hand. Consequently, a lot of born left-handers may write with their right hand but use the left for everything else. Further, some people write and draw left-handed, but have learned to use the right hand for other skilled tasks in order to accomodate tools designed for right-hand use.
However, if a person writes left-handed then s/he is most likely left-handed.
People who are forced to use their left hand because their right hand is not available for use (for example, due to injury or disease) should not be included on this list.
Contrary to popular belief, left-footers are not necessarily left-handed, which causes much confusion when it comes to famous soccer players. While many left-footed players like Arjen Robben are known to be left-handed, there is actually a high percentage of soccer players that are left-handed while being right-footed such as Ruud van Nistelrooy.
[edit] Royalty and nobility
Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
Charles, Prince of Wales - Writes right-handed [1]
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom - Writes right-handed [2]
George II of Great Britain
Naran Ganbaatar - King or Khan of Mongolia
George VI of the United Kingdom (was forced to use his right hand, which may have caused his pronounced stutter)
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Prince William of Wales [3]
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
[edit] Political and governmental leaders
[edit] USA
Bill Bradley[citation needed] Writes with right hand.[4]
George H.W. Bush [5]
Bill Clinton [6]
Gerald Ford was a partially-switched left-hander. Extensive newsreel footage and photographs document that Ford was left-handed when sitting but right-handed when standing. [7]
Barney Frank [8]
James Garfield
John McCain [9]
Gavin Newsom [10]
Barack Obama [11]
H. Ross Perot - With Clinton and Bush, all three major 1992 U.S. presidential election candidates were left-handed.
Ronald Reagan - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.[12]
Nelson Rockefeller - Failed at childhood conversion to right-handedness. At the dinner table during Rockefeller's boyhood, his father tied a string to Rockefeller's left wrist and yanked it viciously every time the boy used his left hand. [13]
Hugh Scott
Harry S. Truman - Converted to right-handedness in childhood. A photo taken during his presidency shows him bowling left-handed. [14]
Renee Fleming
John Howard
[edit] Other nationalities
Alexander the Great (disputed)
Bertie Ahern
Charlemagne
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Napoleon Bonaparte [15]
David Cameron
Fidel Castro - Writes right-handed [16]
Hugo Chávez [17]
Alexander Downer [18]
Joan of Arc
Phil Wyatt
Joseph Estrada
Muammar al-Gaddafi
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
F.W. de Klerk
Heinrich Himmler [19]
Adolf Hitler signed autographs right-handed [20]
Lee Hsien Loong
Benjamin Netanyahu
Ramses II
Ishihara Shintaro
Margaret Thatcher
Julius Caesar
Tiberius - According to Suetonius in his De Vita Caesarum.
Matti Vanhanen [21]
Jarosław Kaczyński
Ehud Olmert - Israeli Prime Minister [22]
[edit] Criminals
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
John Dillinger
Albert Henry DeSalvo - (Boston Strangler)
Crawford Goldsby - Cherokee Bill
Dylan Klebold
Osama bin Laden
Jack the Ripper -- originally thought to have been left handed but widely believed not to have been[citation needed]
[edit] Artists
Ralph Bakshi
Albrecht Dürer
M. C. Escher
Matt Groening [23]
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Ronnie Landfield
Oliver
Leonardo da Vinci - According to Carmen Bambach's article Leonardo, Left-handed Draftsman and Writer
Ben Long
Brice Marden
Michelangelo
Raphael
Arnold Roth
Ronald Searle
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Seen
Jóhann Birgir Jónasson
[edit] Authors
Douglas Adams
James Baldwin
Samuel Beckett
Peter Benchley
David Brooks
Michael Buck
Lewis Carroll
Richard Condon
Charles Dickens
Jean Genet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germaine Greer - Australian feminist
Janet Kagan
Peter Laird
Nikolai Leskov - Wrote The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea, a famous story about a left-handed master.
F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
Michelle Malkin
Bruce Moen
Helen Hooven Santmyer
Leo Tolstoy
Kurt Vonnegut
H.G. Wells
Eudora Welty
Jessamyn West
Gene Wolfe
[edit] Musicians and composers
Left-handed people play guitar or electric bass in one of three ways: (1) play a right-handed guitar right-handed, (2) play a true left-handed instrument (or a right-handed instrument that has been altered to play left-handed, i.e. with the bass strings on top), or (3) turn a right-handed guitar upside down, pick with the left hand, but leave the strings as they were — which makes them reversed from the normal order for a left-handed player. Classical guitar is only played one way regardless of the handedness of the player, as is done throughout classical music. Orchestral instruments have uncommonly been played in a "left-handed" fashion by some entertainers, but this is virtually unheard of in the classical music world, and would be viewed as playing incorrectly if one were to attempt to undertake a classical audition playing an instrument with the hands reversed or the instrument altered.
Left-handed drummers also have a variety of methods to play a drum kit: (1) simply play the standard right-handed way (e.g. Ringo Starr, Travis Barker), (2) have the kit set up in the mirror image of a standard right handed kit, so the hi-hat is on the right, the ride cymbal is on the left, the snare drum is struck with the right stick, the tom-toms descend to the left, etc. (e.g. Rod Morgenstein, Phil Collins, or Ian Paice), or (3) open handed drumming method, which is to play a standard right-handed kit with a left-handed method, using the right stick for the snare and the left stick on the hi-hat and ride cymbals (typically, the ride cymbal's moved to the same side of the kit as the hi-hat) (e.g. Simon Phillips, Carter Beauford.) The third method has two distinct advantages: 1. Left-handedness does not inherently correlate with left-footedness, and the right-handed set up keeps the bass drum and hi-hat pedals on the correct sides; 2. Open handed drumming allows for a much higher, stronger and generally freer downstroke with both hands in the standard time-keeping arrangement (i.e., strong hand on the hi-hat and weak hand on the snare drum) than cross-sticking does.
[edit] A-C
50 Cent
Jarkko Ahola (Teräsbetoni)
Damon Albarn - Plays guitar right handed.
Duane Allman - Played guitar right handed.
Gregg Allman - Plays guitar right-handed.
Bill Anderson
Michael Anthony - Plays guitar and bass right-handed.
Tom Araya (Slayer) - Plays bass right-handed.
Tim Armstrong (Rancid)
Kokomo Arnold
Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu (KoЯn) - Plays bass right-handed.
Asya (Smoosh)
Peter Baddoo Plays Saxophone and Piano. (Also plays the trumpet through his ear).
Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Clint Baker (Riddlin' Kids)
Perry Bamonte (The Cure)
Travis Barker (Blink-182) Plays drums right-handed
Jeff Barry
William Beckett (The Academy Is...) - Writes left-handed, plays guitar right-handed.
Sean Bennett
Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) - Vocalist
Guy Berryman
Jabe Beyer - Writes and plays guitar left-handed
John Bigham (Fishbone)
Beeb Birtles (Little River Band)
Mike Bordin (Faith No More/Ozzy Osbourne)
James Bourne - Plays guitar right handed.
Nick Bowcott (Grim Reaper)
David Bowie - Plays guitar right handed. [24]
Thomas Bradford
Doyle Bramhall II - Plays right-handed guitar upside down.
Ayla Brown [25]
James Brown - Wrote left-handed.
Bob Brozman - Plays guitar, steel guitar and ukulele right-handed.
David Buckner (Papa Roach) - Plays a right-handed set, keeps time with left hand but leads runs with right.
Rusty Burns (Point Blank) - plays lefty strung righty
David Byrne - Plays guitar right-handed.
Jo Callis (The Rezillos/Human League) - Plays guitar left-handed.
Glen Campbell - Plays guitar right-handed.
Carson Cantner -7th grade student in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bun E. Carlos - Has alternated between right and left handed drum setup throughout his career.
Vikki Carr
Adam Carson([AFI])-drums right handed; completes all other tasks left handed
Gerald Casale (Devo) - Learned bass on a right-handed instrument. As a result, plays left-handed bass restrung. [26]
Calogero - Plays guitar and bass left-handed [27]
Samuel Champion - Played guitar right-handed.
Charlie Chaplin - Played a left-handed violin. He had a normal violin modified, switching the chin rest and sounding post from the left side to the right, and he re-strung the violin with the pitches reversed.
Chloe (Smoosh) - Plays a right-handed drumkit open-handed.
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) - Learned to play the guitar by left hand and wrote with left hand. Learned to write and lead off on drums with his right hand.
Natalie Cole
Phil Collins
Bert Convy
Scott Columbus (Manowar)
Tré Cool (Green Day) - Leads off with left hand.
Shaun Cooper (Straylight Run) - Plays bass right-handed, writes left-handed. [28]
Stewart Copeland - Plays drums right-handed, writes with his left hand.
Billy Corgan - Learned and plays guitar as though right-handed, performs most tasks left-handed.
Elizabeth Cotten
Nadine Coyle
Billy Ray Cyrus - Writes and plays guitar left-handed, performs most tasks right-handed.
David Cullen - Writes left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed.
[edit] D-F
Dick Dale - plays guitar left-handed but with strings in reverse order, due to learning on a right-handed guitar.
Mikael Danielsson (No Fun At All)
Jim DeCaire - songwriter, vocalist, and occasional drummer in comedy group Da Yoopers; also one of the group's founding members
Tom Decker (Spineshank)
Jon Dette
Lefty Dizz - Played right-handed blues guitar upside-down.
John Dolmayan - Plays drums right-handed.
Bob Dylan - Plays guitar right-handed.
Elliot Easton (The Cars) - Plays guitar left-handed.
Klaus Eichstadt (Ugly Kid Joe)
Eminem - [29]
Rik Emmett - Plays guitar right-handed.
Josh Eppard (Coheed and Cambria) - Plays a right-handed drumkit open-handed.
Don Everly - Plays guitar right-handed.
Phil Everly - Plays guitar right-handed.
Kevin Federline [30]
Anthony Fedorov
Freddie Feldman - A Cappella Record Producer and Singer
Michael Ferrari (Boy Hits Car)
Ginger Fish (Marilyn Manson) - Plays drums both left and right set up, but usually appears with right handed set up because most Marilyn Manson songs are 'rock oriented,' as Ginger says in an interview with Guitar Center, which is easier for him to play with a right hand set up (as opposed to left handed set up for 'swingy beats').
John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants)
Béla Fleck
Rebecca Flick
David Foster
Glenn Frey - Plays guitar right-handed.
Aretha Franklin
Morgan Freeman
Dick Van Dyke - Draws with his left hand in chalk on the street in Mary Poppins.
Robert Fripp - Plays guitar right-handed.
[edit] G-J
Gackt - Plays guitar right-handed.
Aaron Gainer (12 Stones)
Eric Gales
Noel Gallagher - Plays guitar right-handed.
Naran Ganbaatar
Art Garfunkel
Judy Garland
Errol Garner
Crystal Gayle
Alice Gaywood
Bob Geldof
Murray Gell-Mann
Andy Gibb
Barry Gibb - Plays guitar right-handed.
Glenn Gould
Grashy - Left handed, but plays right-handed.
Greg Graffin
Glen Graham (Blind Melon) - Plays a left-handed drumkit.
Paul Gray (Slipknot)
Jimmy Griffin
Jóhann Birgir Jónasson
Kevin Griffin
Justin Guarini - [31]
Joe Perry (Aerosmith) - Writes with left, plays electric guitar right-handed.
Slide Hampton - Learned as a child on left-handed trombone but is not left-handed.
Zachary Hanson (Hanson) - Plays left-handed drums, right-handed guitar.
Isaac Hayes - Played guitar right-handed.
Eddie Hazel - Played guitar right-handed
Thomas Hedley
Jimi Hendrix - Wrote right-handed, played guitar left-handed, usually a right-handed Fender Stratocaster guitar turned upside down and restrung for a left-handed player. In James Brown's backing band, played guitar right-handed. Often referred to as ambidextrous, and was capable of playing guitar right-handed too.
Rick Hendrix - Writes and plays left handed
Steve Hewitt (Placebo) - Drummer
Faith Hill
Kyle Hollinger (Crazy Town)
Tom Holliston
Natalie Horler (Cascada) - Vocalist
Dominic Howard (Muse) - Plays left-handed drumkit.
Andy Hui
Natalie Imbruglia - [32]
Ernie Isley - Plays right-hand guitar left-handed, plays right-handed as well.
Tony Iommi - plays guitar left-handed.
Lee Jackson - The Nice
Stephan Jenkins - Plays guitar right-handed. [33]
Joan Jett - Plays guitar right-handed.
Lars Johansson (Candlemass)
Daniel Johns (Silverchair/The Dissociatives)- Forced to be right handed at an early age. Many speculate Johns has gone insane which may be linked to this forced change in his dominant hand.
George Johnson (Brothers Johnson) - Plays left-handed.
Adam Jones - Plays guitar right-handed.
Danny Jones - Plays guitar right-handed.
Juicy J
[edit] K-M
Kurupt
Pezhman Lali
Jacek Kaczmarski
Ras Kass
Lena Katina
R. Kelly
Jon Kenneke
K, Ryan
Dave Kilminster - Originally played guitar left-handed, but re-learned it right handed after a wrist injury.
Cheyenne Kimball
Albert King - Played right-handed guitar upside down.
Mark Knopfler - Writes left-handed, plays guitar right-handed.
Kris Kohls (Adema)
Steven Kray - Sets drums up right handed, writes with his left hand.
Brian Larsen - Writes with left hand, plays guitar right-handed.
Lynn Lavner
Annie Lennox
Adam Levine - [34]
Shaznay Lewis
Herman Li DragonForce - Plays guitar right-handed.
Kelly Llorenna
Dave Lombardo - Plays drums right-handed.
Joe Long (Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons) - Bassist.
Noah Ludwig- plays guitar right hanned
Gregor Mackintosh (Paradise Lost (Band))
Barbara Lynn - Plays guitar left-handed
Holly Marquardt - Plays guitar right-handed.
Ryan Mastridge - Plays bass right-handed, drums left handed.
Madlib
Katharine McPhee
Ma$e - Rapper
Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione
Chris Martin - Plays guitar right-handed
Jeff Martin
Ricky Martin [35]
Harpo Marx - The only left-handed Marx Brother, taught himself to play the harp without realizing he was playing it incorrectly. He placed the harp on his left shoulder instead of his right.
Nathen Maxwell (Flogging Molly)
Idina Menzel
Natalie Merchant
Robbie Merill (Godsmack) - Bassist.
Method Man
Hector Mauro - Brazilian Blues guitarist
George Michael - [36] Photographed playing guitar right-handed during Faith period
Andrea McArdle
Paul McCartney (The Beatles) Learned to play guitar left-handed. [37] Plays drums right-handed but does everything else left-handed.
Maureen McGovern
Duff McKagan - Plays guitar and bass right-handed.
Al McKay (Earth, Wind, & Fire)
Martina McBride
Katherine McPhee
David Miller Il Divo
Monica
Debra Monk
Gary Moore - Plays guitar right-handed.
Rod Morgenstein - Plays drums left-handed.
Luke Morley Thunder - Guitarist
Morrissey
Steve Morse - Plays guitar right-handed.
Robin Moulder
Rosie Munter
[edit] N-R
Anna Nalick [38]
Peter Nero
Ne-Yo
Svilen Noev (Ostava) - Writes left-handed, plays guitar right-handed.
Jerry Nolan - Played drums left-handed.
Conor Oberst - Plays guitar right-handed.
Gil Ofarim
Kelly Osbourne [39]
One Be Lo (Binary Star)
Ian Paice
Trey Parker
Krzysztof Penderecki
Joe Perry - Writes left-handed, plays guitar right-handed.
Vanessa Petruo
P!nk - Writes notes left-handed in the video for Nobody Knows
Doug Pinnick King's X
Robert Plant Left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed.
Iggy Pop - Plays guitar left-handed.
Cole Porter
Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) - Throws and rotates stick with left hand
Mac Powell - [40]
Sergey Prokofiev
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Raekwon (Wu-Tang Clan)
Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
Heidi Range
Maurice Ravel
Lou Rawls
Paul Raymond (Savoy Brown/UFO)
Chris Rea - Writes left-handed, plays guitar right-handed.
Brett Reed (Rancid) - Plays left-handed drumkit.
Scott Reeder
Rhymefest
Gruff Rhys - Right-handed, but learned to play the guitar left-handed.
Kevin Richardson Backstreet Boys
Jonny Riddim
Adam Rising - Plays guitar left-handed, and learned with a broken arm on the fretboard
Tyson Ritter - Writes left-handed, plays bass right-handed. [41]
Scott Robinson
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta, At the Drive-In, DeFacto)
Kris Roe (The Ataris) - Plays right-handed guitar upside down.
Henry Rollins
James Root (Slipknot) - Writes with left hand, plays right-handed guitar.
Axl Rose
Rick Ross
Lukas Rossi - Can play the guitar with either hand.
Johnny Rotten
Bjarne Roupé - left-handed jazz guitarist; played with Jimmy Smith
Otis Rush - Plays right-handed blues guitar upside-down.
Graham Russell (Air Supply) - Plays a right-handed guitar upside-down
Lee Ryan
[edit] S-Z
Greta Salpeter The Hush Sound - [42]
Craig Scanlon (The Fall) - Plays a right-handed guitar left-handed
Scarface - A member of Geto Boys
Josey Scott - (Saliva)
Seal - Plays guitar left-handed (but with strings in reverse order)
Dan Seals - plays guitar left-handed (string order uncertain).
Jeff Schartoff - Professional Murder Music
Blake Schwarzenbach- lead singer of Jawbreaker, played guitar left handed
Chris Shiflett - Left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed.
MC Serch
Mike Shinoda
Joseph Simmons - Reverend Run of Run-D.M.C.
Paul Simon - Plays guitar right-handed, writes left-handed.
Fiona Sit - Writes with left