Innovators. Billionaire Bill Gates and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg are left-handers.
Steve Jobs
"I'm ambidexterous," he said in an interview to Newsweek in 1984. At the time, much of the Apple staff was left-handed. Jobs, a rebel and aesthete, seemed proud of this fact. "Most of them are also left-handed, whatever that means," he told Newsweek of his colleagues.
But handedness has its roots in the brain—right-handed people have left-hemisphere-dominant brains and vice versa—and the lefties who claim Einstein weren't all that far off. While he was certainly right-handed, autopsies suggest his brain didn't reflect the typical left-side dominance in language and speech areas.
Rounding out the group of tech geniuses who changed the world with their left hands, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a southpaw.
His wife, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was also left-handed. The Queen Mother didn't pass her left-handedness on to her daughter Queen Elizabeth II.
Babe Ruth. The Babe is probably the most famous left-handed slugger of all-time.
However, there is nothing to suggest the king is actually left-handed and videos of him at his proclamations in London and Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Queen Elizabeth II's death both showed him writing with his right hand.
In fact, Cameron drew the famous sketch of a naked Rose wearing the Heart of the Ocean diamond, and the clip had to be altered to match the right-handed Leonardo DiCaprio, per Digital Spy.
Our confidence intervals at a 95% confidence level show that the average IQ for a left handed person is between 117.73 and 127.19 and for a right handed person it is between 109.9 and 123.5.
Although the percentage varies worldwide, in Western countries, 85 to 90 percent of people are right-handed and 10 to 15 percent of people are left-handed. Mixed-handedness (preferring different hands for different tasks) and ambidextrousness (the ability to perform tasks equally well with either hand) are uncommon.
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.
But one genius who was known to write with his left hand was Nikola Tesla. The inventor of the technology needed for alternating current electricity, Tesla was also known to write with his right hand, having been taught to do so as a child despite his innate left-handedness.
Sex – slightly more boys than girls are left-handed. This suggests to some researchers that the male hormone testosterone has an influence on right and left-handedness. Fetal development – some researchers believe that handedness has more of an environmental influence than genetic.
Jackman can sing, dance, and act, but can he write legibly with his right hand? Probably not. This also means that Wolverine is probably a lefty, though he swung those adamantium claws quite ambidextrously as far as we're concerned.
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath is also a lefty. While Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain played the guitar left-handed, he was actually right-handed. Singer Lady Gaga is also a southpaw.
In a 1996 study, Harvard Medical School researchers found that orthopedic surgeons, librarians and mathematicians were mostly right-handed while attorneys and architects were, as a group, “either the least right-handed or the most left-handed.” Other studies have shown that there are more left-handed people working as ...
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.
Left-handedness was associated with differences in brain asymmetry in areas related to working memory, language, hand control and vision. Some of these brain areas were linked to specific genes. Scientists have long been fascinated by left-handedness.
The video below courtesy of 247paps.tv's YouTube channel not only demonstrates the class act that Brad is, but also his right handedness.
I'm left handed myself.
Miley was born left-handed but her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, trained her to play the guitar right-handed because he knew how hard it is to play left-handed. She can also write with her right hand but she does everything else with her left hand, including grabbing the steel rope of a wrecking ball.
More From Redbook. They're also royal. I take back what I said about left-handers only being in charge of the U.S. They also rule England, as the trait runs in the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Princes William all sign those official documents with their left digits.
Famous left-handed scientists include Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton and Marie Curie.