Famous SouthPaws
ARTISTS
Leonardo da Vinci --A man before his time;
Albrecht Dürer;
M.C. Escher;
Hans Holbein;
Paul Klee;
Michelangelo;
LeRoy Neiman;
Pablo Picasso ;
Raphael
ASTRONAUTS
Edwin Buzz Aldrin;
Wally Schirra
AUTHORS
James Baldwin, novelist;
Bet Bowen, horror novelist;
Peter Benchley, novelist;
Lewis Carroll;
Richard Condon, novelist;
Jean Genet;
Marshall McLuhan;
Diane Paul;
Helen Hooven Santmyer, novelist;
Viktoria Stefanov;
Mark Twain, novelist--and one of my favorites;
Samuel C. Warner ? poet;
H.G. Wells, Novelist;
Jessamyn West;
Eudora Welty, see One Writer's Beginnings (1983:27)
CARTOONISTS
Milt Caniff;
Matt Groening;
Cathy Guisevite;
Bill Mauldin;
Pat Oliphand, political cartoonist;
Jean Plantureux (Plantu), political cartoonist;
Ronald Searle
FILM & TV PERSONALITIES
Don Adams;
Dan Aykroyd;
Eddie Albert;
Jason Alexander;
Harry Anderson;
Tim Allen;
June Allyson;
Harry Anderson;
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor;
Herschel Bernardi;
Robert Blake;
Bruce Boxleitner;
Marlon Brando;
Matthew Broderick;
Pierce Brosnan --James Bond, eh, ok. . . . give me Remington Steele!;
Lenny Bruce, comedian;
Carol Burnett, comedienne;
George Burns, comedian;
Ruth Buzzi, comedienne;
Sid Caesar, comedian;
Vicki Carr;
Keith Carradine;
Jim Carrey;
Khaled Chahrour, Egyptian actor;
Charlie Chaplin;
Chuck Conners;
Hans Conreid;
James Cromwell;
Tom Cruise;
Quinn Cummings;
Daniel Davis;
Bruce Davison;
Matt Dillon;
Robert DeNiro;
Michael Dorn;
Fran Drescher, comedian;
Richard Dreyfuss;
David Duchovny;
Marty Engles, comedian;
W.C. Fields;
Larry Fine ? (of the Three Stooges);
Peter Fonda;
Alan Funt, TV producer--ah, the early days of Candid Camera . . .;
Clark Gable;
Greta Garbo;
Judy Garland;
Terri Garr;
Uri Geller, psychokinetic performer;
Paul Michael Glaser;
George Gobel, comedian;
Whoopie Goldberg;
Betty Grable;
Cary Grant;
Peter Graves;
Mark Hamill;
Rex Harrison;
Olivia de Havilland;
Goldie Hawn;
Joey Heatherton;
Tippi Hedren;
Jim Henson, puppetteer;
Joel Hodgson, host of Mystery Science Theater 3000--My sons' and my husband's favorite show;
Rock Hudson;
Angelina Jolie;
Shirley Jones ;
Gabe Kaplan;
Danny Kaye;
Diane Keaton;
Howard Keel;
George Kennedy;
Nicole Kidman;
Lisa Kudrow;
Michael Landon;
Diane Lane;
Hope Lange;
Joey Lawrence;
Peter Lawford;
Cloris Leachman;
Jay Leno;
David Letterman;
Hal Linden;
Cleavon Little;
Allen Ludden;
Shirley MacLaine;
Andrew McCarthy;
Kristy McNichol;
Steve McQueen;
Howie Mandel, comedian;
Marcel Marceau, mime;
Wink Martindale, TV Host;
Harpo Marx;
Marsha Mason;
Mary Stuart Masterson;
Steve McQueen;
Anne Meara, comedienne;
Sasha Mitchell;
Marilyn Monroe;
Demi Moore;
Robert Morse;
Anthony Newley;
Kim Novak;
Mary Kate Olsen;
Ryan O'Neal;
Sarah Jessica Parker;
Estelle Parsons;
Anthony Perkins;
Rob Perlman;
Luke Perry;
Bronson Pinchot;
Joe Piscopo, comedian;
Robert Preston;
Michael J. Pollard;
Richard Pryor, comedian;
Dennis Quaid;
Robert Redford;
Keanu Reeves;
Don Rickles, comedian;
Julia Roberts;
Mickey Rourke;
Eva Marie Saint;
Telly Savalas;
Jean Seberg;
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian;
Bart Simpson;
Christian Slater;
Dick Smothers, comedian;
David Spade;
Brent Spiner;
Slyvester Stallone;
Terence Stamp;
Jessica Steen;
Rod Steiger;
Alan Thicke;
Terry Thomas, comedian;
Emma Thompson;
Rip Torn;
Peter Ustinov;
Brenda Vaccaro;
Karen Valentine;
Rudy Vallee;
Dick Van Dyke;
Graham Walker a.k.a. Grumbleweeds, English comedian;
Wil Wheaton;
James Whitmore;
Treat Williams;
Bruce Willis;
William Windom;
Oprah Winfrey;
Mare Winningham;
James Woods;
Joanne Woodward;
Keenan Wynn;
Stephanie Zimbalist
JOURNALISTS
Dave Barry, journalist;
Ted Koppel, journalist;
Edward R. Murrow, correspondent;
Forrest Sawyer, journalist;
Ray Suarez, journalist;
INVENTORS, SCIENTISTS, and OTHER SMART and COOL SOUTHPAW PEOPLE
Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts (ambidexterous);
Cecil Beaton, photographer/costume designer;
Marie Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets;
Nicole d'Oresme, mathematician;
Edison, Thomas;
Albert Einstein, Physicist;
Steve Forbes, businessman/publisher;
Henry Ford, Auto Manufacturer;
Bill Gates, Microsoft President;
Euell Gibbons, naturalist;
Helen Keller, advocate for the blind;
Joan of Arc;
August Piccard, inventor of stratosphere, bathosphere;
Paul Prudhomme, chef;
David Rockefeller, banker;
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, physician/missionary;
Dr. Mark Silver, surgeon;
Richard Simmons Fitness Guru
MUSICIANS
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer;
David Bowie;
David Byrne (Talking Heads);
Glen Campbell;
Vicki Carr;
Natale Cole;
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana);
Phil Collins (Genesis);
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins);
Dick Dale (guitarist);
Celine Dion, Musician;
Bob Dylan;
Don Everly ;
Phil Everly;
Bela Fleck, jazz musician;
Glenn Frey (the Eagles);
Eric Gale, guitarist;
Noel Gallagher ? (Oasis);
Errol Garner, jazz pianist;
Crysal Gayle;
Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra);
Thomas Hedley;
Jimi Hendrix;
Isaac Hayes;
Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath);
Albert King, guitarist;
Melissa Manchester;
Chuck Mangione, trumpet;
All of the Manhattan Transfer;
Martina McBride country music singer;
Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings);
Christie Marie Melonson (opera);
George Michael (Wham!);
Peter Nero, conductor;
Joe Perry (Aerosmith);
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin);
Cole Porter, song-writer;
Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer;
Maurice Ravel composer;
Lou Rawls;
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.);
Seal;
Carly Simon;
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel);
Ringo Starr (the Beatles);
Sting;
Rich Szabo, trumpeter;
Tiny Tim, Musician;
Lenny White, drummer;
Paul Williams, song-writer
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