At least eight of the 45 men who have held the office of United States president have been left-handed. Only one U.S. president prior to the 20th century was known to be left-handed. Since World War II there have been fourteen different U.S. presidents and six of them have been left-handed.
The eight left-handed Presidents, according to the 2015 Edition of the World Almanac, are James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.
President Harry Truman was the first southpaw (left-hander) to toss a baseball out of the presidential box. In fact, President Truman was ambidextrous and used both arms during his numerous ceremonial pitches.
Billionaire Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg are left-handers.
According to The Washington Post, Benjamin Franklin was left-handed. Franklin was very passionate about being left-handed and even wrote an essay, 'A Petition of the Left Hand,' which was written in 1779.
Queen Victoria is perhaps the most famous left-handed British monarch, though historians believe she was required to use her right hand as a child during the strict age in which she lived.
As demonstrated with her regal right-handed wave, our current monarch, Queen Elizabeth, is no southpaw — but plenty of her relatives/ancestors are/were. These include her great-grandmother Queen Victoria, her dad King George VI, her mum the Queen Mum, and her grandson, William.
While many like to claim Albert Einstein was a lefty, there is no evidence he actually was. In fact, the photographic evidence points to his being a righty. But one genius who was known to write with his left hand was Nikola Tesla.
Most of the current research suggests that left-handedness has an epigenetic marker—a combination of genetics, biology and the environment. Because the vast majority of the population is right-handed, many devices are designed for use by right-handed people, making their use by left-handed people more difficult.
Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017) is left-handed.
Oprah Winfrey
WIth a fortune of $2.5 billion according to Forbes, she is the richest Black woman and the richest left-handed woman in the world.
And President John F. Kennedy was not left-handed, but both his children - John F. Kennedy Jr.
-Counting how many people are left-handed is more difficult than it looks, because of variations in preference and skill from task to task and because of left-handers having been forced to write with their right hand, but the best estimate we have is that roughly 10% of the world population is left-handed.
Roughly 10 percent of people are left-handed, according Chris McManus, a University College of London researcher who wrote a book chapter on the history and geography of left-handedness. Scientists generally agree that there is a strong genetic component that determines whether a person is right- or left-handed.
This revealed that the 10 percent rule does not hold steady across states. In fact, McManus writes, “The highest rates of left-handedness are in the north-east, in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, whereas the lowest rates are in the mid-West, in Wyoming and North Dakota.”
Albert Einstein. Lefties are often considered creative, so it's no surprise that many famous inventors and great minds were left-handed, including Einstein, Marie Curie, Ben Franklin, and Henry Ford. Bill Gates is also a southpaw.
Left-handedness occurs in about 8% of the human population. It runs in families and an adoption study suggests a genetic rather than an environmental origin; however, monozygotic twins show substantial discordance.
Sometimes people who are left-handed are called many different things, “Southpaws”, "Lefties", and other simply mean names, like "Weird" or "Strange".
Overall, individuals with ADHD had a 27.3 percent chance of being either left-handed or mixed-handed compared to 18.1 percent in the general population. So the results suggest that the effects are smaller than for the autism spectrum, but generally go in the same direction.
The Left-handed Royals
Middleton has a right hand bag, but she is usually left-handed when attending royal events. Princess Diana, like Prince Philip and Prince Charles, is a right-handed person. The extent of Queen Elizabeth II's father's left hand is unknown.
If fans haven't noticed it before, they will always see it now when they glance at the Duchess. Whether it be a classic clutch or dainty purse, Kate is usually seen carrying a bag in her left hand at royal events, despite being right-handed. She is not the only royal who does this either.
Roman Catholic nun Mother Teresa is remembered for many things, one of which is being left-handed.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
His left-handed status has never been confirmed, but biographer said at the time that he'd seen Beethoven use his left hand when composing. He painted with his right hand so he may have been ambidextrous.