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John H. Ritter's sample list of famous and creative lefties


Presidents

Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Fidel Castro

Actors

Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Demi Moore, Emma Thompson, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Dreyfus, Robert De Niro, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe

Comedians

Charlie Chaplin, Goldie Hawn, Richard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Dougie Doug, Drew Carry, Tim Allen, Whoopi Goldberg, Dan Ackroyd, Fran Drescher, Lisa Kudrow, Lenny Bruce, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Carol Burnett, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Harpo Marx

Musicians

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Kurt Cobain, David Hildago, Chuck McPherson, Paul Simon, Natalie Cole, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, the artist formerly known as Prince, Tiny Tim

Bob Dylan's new album cover

On Wed, October 17, 2001, while "Temptation's page flies out the door," John and his longtime buddy, Martino, were at UC San Diego enjoying the words and music of America's first rap artist, Bob Dylan, as the left-handed wordsmith's "Disillusioned words like bullets bark, As human gods aim for their mark...."

(For the complete lyrics to It's All Right, Ma--so you can hiphop along with John, Martino, Mr. Jones, et al, to this and all the other great BD raps--check out this link to the subterranean homesick archives.)

Artists, Scientists and Thinkers

Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Albert Einstein, Ben Franklin, Albert Schweitzer, Pablo Picasso, Mark Twain, Aristotle, Casey Stengal

John's quirky and intriguing info about lefties

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Information for Educators and Parents of Left Handed Kids

Rosemary West's Left-Handed Page




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