Famous left-handers

Writing with the right hand is not proof that a person is right-handed. The information about their left-handedness for some listed persons is disputed or contradictory, as only those who write with their left hand are considered left-handed. Some left-handers listed below are thus over-taught left-handers or are mistakenly referred to as ambidextrous (two-handed). This list certainly does not include all the famous left-handers, it is just a selection.

Scientists: Isaac Newton, I. P. Pavlov, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Schweitzer, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong

Musicians: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergej Prokofjev, Robert Schumann, Niccolo Paganini, Giuseppe Verdi, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Collins, Seal, Annie Lennox, David Bowie, George Michael, Céline Dion, Natalie Imbruglia, Josef Vojtek, Kurt Cobain, Robert Kodym

Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Peter Paul Rubens, Raffael Santi, Josef Lada, Alfons Mucha, Jiří Trnka, Matt Groening, Vincent van Gogh, Jean Paul Gaultier

Writers: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, Václav Havel, Hans Christian Andersen, Matt Groening

Politicians: Jana z Arku, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexand Veliký, Benjamin Franklin, Ludvík XVI., Simón Bolívar, královna Viktorie, Jiří II., Jiří IV., Jiří VI., Mahátma Gándhí, královna Matka, Winston Churchill, Princ William, princ Charles, princ Vilém Alexandr, Benjamin Netanjahu, Colin Powell, Thomas Jefferson, Harry S. Truman, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama

Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro, Peter Fonda, Greta Garbo, Whoopie Goldberg, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Robert Redford, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Peter Ustinov, Bruce Willis, Vladimír Menšík, Jiřina Jirásková, Tatiana Wilhelmová, Lenka Vlasáková, Jan Cina

Athletes: Fernardo Alonso, Martina Navrátilová, Petr Korda, Rafael Nadal, Lucie Šafářová, Petra Kvitová, Petr Čech, Diego Maradona, Pelé, Michal Platini, Lionel Messi, Garri Kasparov, Šárka Pančochová