comb over

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File:Unruly combover.jpg

A comb over or combover is a hairstyle for bald or balding men in which the hair is grown long and combed over the short hair area to minimize the appearance of the scalp. Sometimes the parting is lowered so that more hair can be used to cover the head.

Examples

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  • Iñaki AnasagastiBasque nationalist.{{cite web|url=http://muyloco.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/anasagasti.jpg|title=Archived copy|access-date=16 October 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095714/http://muyloco.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/anasagasti.jpg|archive-date=6 July 2011}}{{dubious|date=September 2012}}
  • Zero Mostel – actor, left-to-right and back-to-front.
  • Georges Bonnet – French Foreign Minister
  • Douglas MacArthur – US General
  • Alexander Lukashenko – President of Belarus.
  • Doug Anthony – former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • 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.{{Cite news |last=Allen |first=Henry |date=1990-09-14 |title=SOUTER VS. THE SENATORS THE YANKEE TAKES THE LEAD |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/09/14/souter-vs-the-senators-the-yankee-takes-the-lead/898033b5-a44d-4bc9-8ca9-4aee4dce5453/ |access-date=2022-06-28 |issn=0190-8286}}
  • Abdelaziz BouteflikaPresident of Algeria{{cite web|url=http://www.el-mouradia.dz/arabe/president/presidentar.htm|title=الرئيس|publisher=El-mouradia.dz|access-date=5 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513160239/http://www.el-mouradia.dz/arabe/president/presidentar.htm|archive-date=13 May 2012}}
  • Julius Caesar – combed his hair on the side.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk7/features/charlton|publisher=Oxfordstudent.com|title=Oxford Student – TT2005 Week 7 – Features – Charlton|first=Rob|last=Lewis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051118125121/http://www.oxfordstudent.com/tt2005wk7/Features/charlton|archive-date=18 November 2005}}
  • Constantine I – combed his hair forward.{{cite book|author=Stephenson, Paul|date=2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vY8NzCUHsfkC&pg=PT181|title=Constantine, Roman Emperor, Christian Victor|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-4683-0300-1}}
  • Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States.{{cn|date=June 2023}}
  • Valéry Giscard d'EstaingPresident of France{{cite book|author=Depardon, Raymond|date=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_iN7UpwhaH0C&q=giscard+d%27estaing+comb+over&pg=PA38|title=Raymond Depardon: fotograaf en filmer|publisher=Episode Publishers|isbn=978-9059730403}}
  • Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-09-16-0209160186-story.html|title=Giuliani combs over new look|website=Chicago Tribune|date=16 September 2002 }}
  • Carl Levin – American attorney and former US Senator for Michigan.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • Gene KeadyPurdue University basketball coach.{{cite news|last1=Doyel|first1=Gregg|title=Gene Keady spent how much on that combover|url=http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2014/11/11/doyel-keadys-killer-combover-gone-but-not-forgotten/18805373/|agency=Indianapolis Star|date=12 November 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710045450/http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2014/11/11/doyel-keadys-killer-combover-gone-but-not-forgotten/18805373/|archive-date=10 July 2015}}
  • Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s.Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore [http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/f27d82b3-1161-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad Deputy speaker of parliament, Tan Soo Khoon, taking his oath of allegiance as Member of Parliament (Alexandra) at the opening of parliament] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211235320/http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/f27d82b3-1161-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad|date=11 February 2017}} National Archives of Singapore, 25 February 1985, retrieved 9 February 2017
  • Neil Kinnock – former leader of The Labour Party.{{cn|date=June 2023}}
  • John McCain – former U.S. Senator of Arizona and 2008 U.S. presidential nominee.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • Vladimir Putin – current President of Russia.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
  • Heng SamrinPresident of the National Assembly of Cambodia.[http://www.gettyimages.com/license/154139212 Former Cambodian King, Prince Norodom Sihanouk (L) is welcomed by Chairman of the State Council of Cambodia Heng Samrin (R) and President of the National Assembly Chea Sim (C) upon arrival at Pochentong International Airport on November 14, 1991 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Prince Sihanouk returns to Cambodia for the first time in almost 13 years.] The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images, 14 November 1991, retrieved 7 February 2017
  • Robert Robinson – former game show host.{{cite web|first=John|last=Dugdale|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,664045,00.html|title=Volume control|publisher=Books.guardian.co.uk|date=9 March 2002|access-date=5 September 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016075541/http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,664045,00.html|archive-date=16 October 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thecustard.tv/thecrumble/thecrumble_27.html|title=Ask the Family, BBC2, Monday|publisher=thecustard.tv|date=9 May 2012|access-date=5 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516012427/http://www.thecustard.tv/thecrumble/thecrumble_27.html|archive-date=16 May 2008}}
  • Gene Siskel – American film critic.
  • Donald Trump – 45th and 47th President of the United States.{{Cite magazine|title=Donald Trump's Comb-Over Came Undone, and It Was All Caught on Video|date=2018-02-07|magazine=Glamour|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/donald-trump-combover-blown-away-video|access-date=2021-12-14}}
  • Joko Widodo – former President of Indonesia.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
  • Wilhelm I - King of Germany from 1871-89

{{wide image|The pliable coiffure of Mr. Fairbanks.jpg|1000px|The Pliable Coiffure of Mr. Fairbanks. A Few Campaign Portrait Suggestions, caricature of Charles W. Fairbanks by Hy Mayer, New York Times, 22 September 1907}}

Patent

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On 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent ({{US patent|4022227}}) for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.

See also

References

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Further reading

{{Commons category|Combover}}

  • {{cite journal|doi=10.1210/en.2010-0217|title=Is the "Comb Over" Dying? A Mouse Model for Male Pattern Baldness (Androgenic Alopecia)|year=2010|last1=Walker|first1=W. H.|journal=Endocrinology|volume=151|issue=5|pages=1981–1983|pmid=20410210|doi-access=free}}