A comb over or combover is a hairstyle commonly worn by balding men in which the hair is grown long and

comb A comb is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the hair to clean, untangle, or style it. Combs have been used since prehistoric times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating ba ...

ed over the bald area to minimize the appearance of baldness. Sometimes the parting is lowered so that more hair can be used to cover the balding area.

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Iñaki Anasagasti Iñaki Anasagasti (born 16 November 1947) is a Venezuelan-Spanish politician, belonging to the Basque Nationalist Party. Biography Anasagasti was born to exiled Spanish parents in Cumaná, Venezuela. His father was a Basque nationalist and a ...

– Basque nationalist *

Zero Mostel Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel (February 28, 1915 – September 8, 1977) was an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in ''Fiddler on the Roof'', Pseudolus on stage and on ...

– actor, left-to-right and back-to-front * Doug Anthony – former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia *

Rainer Barzel Rainer Candidus Barzel (20 June 1924 – 26 August 2006) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the 8th President of the Bundestag from 1983 to 1984. Barzel had been the leader of his parliamentary group ...

– former

Christian Democratic Union of Germany The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (german: link=no, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands ; CDU ) is a Christian democratic and liberal conservative political party in Germany. It is the major catch-all party of the centre-right ...

chairman * Joe Biden – 46th President of the United States – sported a comb-over during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he was a senator. * Robert Bork – American judge whose controversial nomination to the US Supreme Court was rejected * Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeria *

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...

– combed his hair on the side * Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner *

Constantine I Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to convert to Christianity. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea ...

– combed his hair forward * Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States * Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz – Chilean Senator * Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of France *

Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 198 ...

– former

Mayor of New York City The mayor of New York City, officially Mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property ...

* Gene Keady – Purdue University basketball coach * Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s * Neil Kinnock – former leader of The Labour Party * René Lévesque – former Premier of Quebec *

Carl Levin Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the chair of the Senate Armed Services C ...

– American attorney * Alexander Lukashenko – President of Belarus *

Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. He had served with distinction in World War I, was C ...

– American general *

John McCain John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms ...

– former

U.S. Senator The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and powe ...

of Arizona and 2008 U.S. presidential nominee * Vladimir Putin – current President of Russia *

Wang Qishan Wang Qishan (; ; born 19 July 1948) is a Chinese politician, and the current Vice President of the People's Republic of China. Wang is one of the leading figures behind China's foreign affairs, along with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Ke ...

– Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China *

Heng Samrin Heng Samrin ( km, ហេង សំរិន; born 25 May 1934) is a Cambodian politician who serves as the President of the National Assembly of Cambodia. Between 1979 and 1992, he was the ''de facto'' leader of the Hanoi-backed People's Republi ...

–

President of the National Assembly of Cambodia The President of the National Assembly ( km, ប្រធានរដ្ឋសភា, ) is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the legislature. Presidents of the National Assembly (1946–70) Presidents of the National Assembly of Ca ...

* Robert Robinson – former game show host *

Gene Siskel Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the ''Chicago Tribune''. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted a series of movie review programs on television from 1975 until his d ...

– American film critic * Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States

Patent

On 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of

Orlando, Florida Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...

, were awarded a patent () for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.

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* * {{Human hair Hairstyles Human appearance

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