List of left handers
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
* George VI of the United Kingdom
* Victoria of the United Kingdom
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
* Prince William of Wales [3]
Political and governmental leaders
[edit] American
* Bill Bradley [citation needed] Writes with right hand.[4]
* George H.W. Bush [5]
* Bill Clinton [6]
* Gerald Ford [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.[13]
* Hugh Scott
* Harry S. Truman - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.[14]
* Adam Fedoruk - Well known leading American computer programmer. Now resides in Tennessee.[15]
[edit] Other nationalities
* Bertie Ahern
* Napoleon Bonaparte [16]
* Julius Caesar
* David Cameron
* Fidel Castro - Writes right-handed [17]
* Hugo Chávez [18]
* Alexander Downer [19]
* Joseph Estrada
* Gandhi [citation needed]
* Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
* F.W. de Klerk
* Lee Hsien Loong
* Benjamin Netanyahu
* Ramses II
* Ishihara Shintaro
* Margaret Thatcher
* Tiberius - According to Suetonius in his De Vita Caesarum.
* Matti Vanhanen [20]
* Vu Nguyen
* Linh Tran
[edit] Criminals
Osama bin Laden holding a gun with his left hand
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Osama bin Laden holding a gun with his left hand
* 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
Cricket
In cricket, left-handed batsmen make bowlers bowl a completely different line (angle), which disrupts their accuracy. As batsmen in cricket work in pairs, teams traditionally like to have a mix of right and left handers to maximise this effect. This is particularly so for opening batsmen. The same arguments, in reverse, apply to left-handed bowlers. Top quality left-handed bowlers seem to be rarer than their batting equivalents.
* Wasim Akram
* Geoff Allott - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Curtly Ambrose - Bowled right-handed, batted left-handed
* Saeed Anwar
* Michael Bevan
* Allan Border
* Nathan Bracken - Bowls left-handed, bats right-handed.
* David Brain - Bowls left-handed, bats and throws right-handed.
* Alistair Campbell
* Michael Clarke - Bowls left-handed, bats right-handed.
* Alan Davidson
* Andre Dawson - Writes left-handed, but bats and throws right-handed.
* John Edrich
* Matthew Elliott
* Stephen Fleming
* Saurav Ganguly - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed.
* Chris Gayle - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed
* Adam Gilchrist - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed.
* David Gower
* Sir Richard Hadlee - Batted left-handed, bowled right-handed.
* Matthew Hayden - Bats left-handed, bowls and signs autographs right-handed.
* George Hirst - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Brad Hogg
* Michael Hussey - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed.
* Inzamam-ul-Haq - Bats right-handed, throws left-handed
* Phil Jaques
* Sanath Jayasuriya
* Brendon Julian - Bowls left-handed, bats right-handed.
* Simon Katich
* Lance Klusener - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed
* Justin Langer
* Brian Lara - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed
* Maurice Leyland
* Tony Lock - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Phil Mead
* Dinesh Mongia
* Shayne O'Connor
* Monty Panesar
* Bruce Reid
* Wilfred Rhodes - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Kumar Sangakkara
* Yuvraj Singh
* Graeme Smith - Bats left-handed, bowls right-handed
* Sir Gary Sobers
* Amir Sohail
* Andrew Strauss
* Mark Taylor - Bats left handed, bowls right-handed.
* Sachin Tendulkar - writes with left hand.
* Marcus Trescothick
* Derek Underwood - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Hedley Verity - Bowled left-handed, batted right-handed
* Daniel Vettori
* Johnny Wardle
* Mike Whitney - Bowls left-handed, bats right-handed
* Frank Woolley
* Sir Frank Worrell - Batted right-handed, bowled left-handed, .