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Eunoia
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus
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 Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:49 am Post subject: "Great People" who have been left-handers |
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In response to the "Famous Vegetarians" thread, here's a short list of lefites that have made their mark on the world:
Acda, Thomas (comedian)
Aldrin, Edwin Eugene, Jr.(astronaut, second man on the moon)
Alexander, Jason (actor)
Alexander the Great (king, conqueror, military leader)
Andersen, Hans Christian (author)
Anderson, Bill (musician)
Appelmans, Sabine (tennis player)
Aristotle (philosopher)
Aykroyd, Dan (actor)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (composer)
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Lord (soldier, founder of the Boy Scouts)
Balboa, Rocky (boxer)
Barry, Dave (actor)
Beethoven, Ludwig van (composer)
Billy the Kid(outlaw)
Blankenstein, John (referee)
Boer, Ronald de (soccer player)
Bonaparte, Napoleon (emperor, military commander)
Bouvrie, Jan des (designer)
Breukelen, Hans van (soccer-player)
Broderick, Matthew (actor)
Brosnan, Pierce (actor)
Bruce, Lenny (performer)
Burnett, Carol (actress)
Burns, George (actor)
Bush, George Herbert Walker(president)
Byrne, David (musician)
Carradine, Keith (actor)
Carroll, Lewis (author, mathematician, logician, photographer)
Castro, Fidel (Cuban statesman, revolutionary)
Chaplin, Charles Spencer(actor)
Charles (prince of Wales)
Charlemagne (Karel de Grote) (king)
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (politician)
Clerck, F.W. de (former South African president)
Clinton, William (Bill) Jefferson (president)
Cobain, Kurt (musician)
Cobb, Ty (baseball player)
Cokes, Ray (tv-host)
Cole, Natalie (musician)
Collins, Phil (musician)
Connors, Jimmy (tennis-player)
Cruise, Tom (actor)
Cruyff, Johan (soccer-player)
Daniels, Paul (magician)
Davids, Edgar (soccer player)
Date, Kimiko (tennis player)
DeSalvo, Albert (the Boston Strangler)
Dillon, Matt (actor)
Dole, Robert (Bob) Joseph (presidential kandidate)
Drescher, Fran (actress)
Dreyfuss, Richard (actor)
Driel, Toon van (cartoonist)
D?rer, Albrecht (painter)
Dyke, Dick van (actor)
Dylan, Bob (musician)
Edward III (king)
Egbers, Tom (journalist)
Einstein, Albert (scientist)
Elizabeth II (queen)
Elizabeth (Queen Mother) (queen-mother)
Es, Andr?e van (politician)
Escher, M.C. (artist)
Everly, Don (musician)
Everly, Phil (musician)
Fields, William Claude (actor, comedian)
Fischer, Robert (Bobby) James (chess-player)
Fonda, Peter (actor)
Forbes, Steve (publisher)
Ford, Gerald Rudolph (president)
Ford, Henry (industrialist)
Forget, Guy (tennis-player)
Franklin, Benjamin (author, scientist, diplomat, philosopher, printer)
Frey, Glenn (former member of Eagles)
Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma) Karamchand (Indian statesman, thinker, leader)
Garbo, Greta (actress)
Garfield, James Abraham (president)
Garland, Judy (actress)
Gates, Bill (software tycoon)
Geldof, Bob (musician)
Geller, Uri (fraud)
George II (king)
George IV (king)
George VI (king)
Goebbels, Paul Joseph (nazi minister of propaganda)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (author)
Goldberg, Whoopy (actress)
Gore, Albert (Al), Jr. (vice-president)
Hanegem, Willem van (soccer-player)
Grant, Gary (actor)
Groening, Matt (cartoonist)
Hawn, Goldie (actress)
Hendrix, James (Jimi) Marshall (musician)
Henson, Jim (puppeteer)
Herbert, Johnny (formula 1 driver)
Hoffman, Thom (actor)
Hiatt, John (rock singer/songwriter)
Hill, Faith (musician)
Hogan, Ben (golfer)
Holbein, Hans (artist)
Hoover, Herbert Clarck (president)
Hudson, Rock (actor)
Huisman, Henny (tv-host)
Ivanisevic, Goran (tennis-player)
Jack the Ripper (criminal)
Joan of Arc (French heroine)
Julius Caesar (ruler)
Kaye, Danny (comedian, signer, dancer)
Keaton, Diane (actress)
Kidman, Nicole (actress)
King, Albert (musician)
Klee, Paul (painter)
Knopfler, Mark (musician)
Kolck, Mariska van (singer)
Korda, Petr (tennis player)
Landon, Michael (actor)
Leer, Thijs van (musician)
Leeuw, Paul de (talkshow-host, comedian)
Lennox, Annie (musician)
Leno, Jay (talkshow host)
Louis XVI (king)
Lubbe, Huub van der (singer, songwriter)
MacLaine, Shirley (actress)
Marceau, Marc (mime)
Marx, Harpo (comedian)
Mayall, Rik (actor)
McCartney, Paul (musician)
McEnroe, John (tennis-player)
McNamara, Robert Strange (secretary of defence)
McQueen, Steve (actor)
Michael, George (musician)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (sculptor, architect, painter, poet)
Monroe, Marilyn (actress)
Moore, Gary (musician)
Navratilova, Martina (tennis-player)
Nelson, Horatio (naval commander)
Netanyahu, Benjamin (Israeli prime-minister)
Newton, Isaac (scientist)
Nieman, Gunda (ice skater)
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (philosopher, poet)
Niro, Robert De (actor)
North, Oliver (lieutenant colonel)
Oerlemans, Reinoud (actor)
O'Neill, Ed (actor)
Oosting, M. (jurist)
Pele (soccer-player)
Perkins, Anthony (actor)
Perot, Henry Ross (politician)
Perry, Luke (actor)
Pinchot, Bronson (actor)
Plant, Robert (musician)
Pop, Iggy (musician)
Porter, Cole (musician)
Powell, Colin Luther (military leader)
Preston, Robert (actor)
Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich (composer)
Pryor, Richard (actor)
Quaid, Dennis (actor)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich (composer, pianist, conductor)
Ramses II (pharaoh)
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)(painter)
Ravel, Maurice Joseph (composer)
Reagan, Ronald Wilson (president, writes right-handed)
Redford, Robert (actor)
Reeves, Keanu (actor)
Reve, Gerard (author)
Ruth, Babe (baseball player)
Roberts, Julia (actress)
Romario (soccer-player)
Rourke, Mickey (actor)
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman (army officer)
Schweitzer, Albert (medical missionary, theologian)
Seinfeld, Jerry (actor)
Seles, Monika (tennis-player)
Senna, Ayrton (formula 1 driver)
Simmons, Richard (fitness guru)
Simon, Carly (musician)
Simon, Paul (musician)
Simpson, Orenthal James (football-player, actor, suspect)
Slater, Christian (actor)
Spiner, Brent (actor)
Spitz, Mark (swimmer)
Starr, Ringo (musician)
Sting (musician)
Stipe, Michael (musician)
Taylor, Roger (musician)
Thompson, Emma (actress)
Tiberius (emperor)
Truman, Harry S (president)
Twain, Mark (writer, humorist)
Ustinov, Peter Alexander (actor, writer, producer, director)
VanderLijde, Arnold (boxer)
Victoria (queen)
Vinci, Leonardo da (painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist)
Vries, Peter R. de (journalist)
Wauters, Koen (musician)
Wells, Herbert George (author, polical philosopher)
Wendlinger, Karl (formula 1 driver)
Wheaton, Wil (actor)
Wiersma, Harm (checkers player)
William (British prince)
Willis, Bruce (actor)
Winfrey, Oprah (talk-show host, actor)
Witschge, Richard (soccer-player)
Zandstra, Falco (ice-skater)
Wow, that's quite a list.
(taken from http://home.planet.nl/~mvdubois/lefthanders_en.html)
Feel free to add your own name.
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: |
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I heard Celtic football club have a tradition of very talented left-footed players.
can anyone confirm this/deny? |
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ladyandthetramp
Joined: 21 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Put down my name. I'm both great and left-handed, too! |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Which leads to an even more important question for the blokes: which hand gives the most enjoyment?? I'm personally a big fan of my left (I nominated this one as being korean) but i find the right one (nominated western due its larger size and slightly nobblier appearance) a bit easier and less complicated to use....... |
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newinseoul
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Enjoyment for what? Wouldn't it matter as to what your dominant writing hand would be. I'm no bloke but couldn't resist commenting on this.
Ditto Lady and the Tramp - Proud to be in the left-handed club..and great  |
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magicwolfman
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I am left handed too. No applause is necessary. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| is it true that left handed people don't feel the cold as much as right handers? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm ambidextrous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidextrous
"Ambidexterity is often encouraged in activities requiring a great deal of skill in both hands, such as swimming and combat." Don't beep with me, or I'll kick your ass. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| is it true that left handed people don't feel the cold as much as right handers? |
I doubt it. One thing for sure, left-handed people are sinister (you'll get the joke if you understand Latin). |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: |
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The first name I'd think of to add to a list of great left-handers would be Ted Williams - and, further down the list, Carl Yastrzemski. In tennis, Rod Laver was certainly great. Marvin Hagler usually fought from a southpaw stance, but I think he writes with his right hand. There might be a little something to the Latin root word connection, sinister, which I think means left, while dexter means right.
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Science & Technology
Left-handedness
A sinister advantage
Dec 9th 2004
From The Economist print edition
A possible reason why left-handedness is rare but not extinct
IT IS hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies. While ��Rocky�� is fiction, the strategic advantage of being left-handed in a fight is very real, simply because most right-handed people have little experience of fighting left-handers, but not vice versa. And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket.
The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialisation of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ. Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans (and all other vertebrate animals) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180�� relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (and thus the right body) is usually dominant. And on average, left-handers are smaller and lighter than right-handers. That should put them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Sporting advantage notwithstanding, therefore, the existence of left-handedness poses a problem for biologists. But Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond, of the University of Montpellier II, in France, think they know the answer. As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, there is a clue in the advantage seen in boxing.
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As any schoolboy could tell you, winning fights enhances your status. If, in prehistory, this translated into increased reproductive success, it might have been enough to maintain a certain proportion of left-handers in the population, by balancing the costs of being left-handed with the advantages gained in fighting. If that is true, then there will be a higher proportion of left-handers in societies with higher levels of violence, since the advantages of being left-handed will be enhanced in such societies. Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond set out to test this hypothesis.
Fighting in modern societies often involves the use of technology, notably firearms, that is unlikely to give any advantage to left-handers. So Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond decided to confine their investigation to the proportion of left-handers and the level of violence (by number of homicides) in traditional societies.
By trawling the literature, checking with police departments, and even going out into the field and asking people, the two researchers found that the proportion of left-handers in a traditional society is, indeed, correlated with its homicide rate. One of the highest proportions of left-handers, for example, was found among the Yanomamo of South America. Raiding and warfare are central to Yanomamo culture. The murder rate is 4 per 1,000 inhabitants per year (compared with, for example, 0.068 in New York). And, according to Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond, 22.6% of Yanomamo are left-handed. In contrast, Dioula-speaking people of Burkina Faso in West Africa are virtual pacifists. There are only 0.013 murders per 1,000 inhabitants among them and only 3.4% of the population is left-handed.
While there is no suggestion that left-handed people are more violent than the right-handed, it looks as though they are more successfully violent. Perhaps that helps to explain the double meaning of the word ��sinister��.
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coldcrush
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
Location: melbourne.... Posts: 1
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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You forgot Ned Flanders.
Assuming 10% of the world's population is left handed, I'm going to assume the "awesome people who are right handed list" is about 9-10 times the size of this list.
Let's look:
Right handeded Awesome People:
Boxing:
Muhummad Ali
Comedians:
Chris Rock
Johnny Carson
David Letterman
Eddie Murphy
Basketball:
Michael Jordan
Wilt Chamberlain
Lebron James
Oscar Robertson
Golf:
Tiger Woods
Jack Nicklaus
Football:
Joe Montana
Walter Payton
Jerry Rice
Baseball:
Mickey Mantle
Willie Mays
Hank Aaron
Barry Bonds
Authors:
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
Pablo Neruda
Statesmen:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Adolf Hitler
Nelson Mandela
Babes:
Jessica Alba
Monica Bellucci
Christy Turlington
Lindsay Lohan (She had some big ass *beep*).
Musicians:
Elvis Presley
John Lennon
Bob Marley
Mick Jagger
Nat King Cole
John Lee Hooker
Skee-Lo
Need I go on? |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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How many people in the OP's list are gay?
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According to Kenneth Zucker, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), homosexuals are more likely to be "lefties" than heterosexuals. Zucker analyzed data collected in 20 different studies over the past 50 years and discovered a correlation between left-handedness and homosexuality. The findings, reported recently in the Psychological Bulletin, indicate that lesbians have a 91% greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than straight women, while gay men are 34% more likely than straight men to not be right-handed. While Zucker says the research provides empirical evidence that links homosexuality to left-handedness, "we don't have a definitive answer as to why the relationship exists."
The study raises a red flag for Bonnie Spanier, Ph.D., director of women's studies at the State University of New York in Albany. "What biases do these researchers take with them to the lab?," she asks. "There is a long history of using biological differences to call people superior or inferior."
Simon LeVay, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist who studies the biological differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals and is both gay and left-handed, is also reluctant to jump to conclusions. "The data obscures the fact that most homosexuals are right-handed, and most left-handed people are heterosexual," he points out. Still, he is not offended by the study. "The biological approach is helpful in understanding that sexual identity is a given," he believes. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| Corporal wrote: |
How many people in the OP's list are gay?
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According to Kenneth Zucker, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Toronto's Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), homosexuals are more likely to be "lefties" than heterosexuals. Zucker analyzed data collected in 20 different studies over the past 50 years and discovered a correlation between left-handedness and homosexuality. The findings, reported recently in the Psychological Bulletin, indicate that lesbians have a 91% greater chance of being left-handed or ambidextrous than straight women, while gay men are 34% more likely than straight men to not be right-handed. While Zucker says the research provides empirical evidence that links homosexuality to left-handedness, "we don't have a definitive answer as to why the relationship exists."
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I would have thought ambidextrous people should have been more likely to be bisexual.
Well, aren't lefties more inclined to be involved in the arts? Need I say more? |
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newinseoul
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:22 am Post subject: |
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http://kyky.essortment.com/amirightbrain_opr.htm
In fact lefties use their right brain as the dominant function. Right brained people are usually more kinesthetic learners and are more gifted in the arts, music, dancing and singing. Doesn't mean they are gay. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:31 am Post subject: |
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| I liked the fact that Castro was described as "Cuban statesman, revolutionary" and that fictional characters were included. |
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