Comb over

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.

Combover hairstyle in the wind

Examples

Donald Trump's combover

Carl Levin, Former US Senator for Michigan

Charles Lindbergh next to a helicopter in 1972

• Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist.^[1]
• 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]}
• 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.^[2]
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeria^[3]
• Julius Caesar – combed his hair on the side.^{[citation needed]}
• Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner.^[4]
• Constantine I – combed his hair forward.^[5]
• Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States.^{[citation needed]}
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of France^[6]
• Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City.^[7]
• Carl Levin – American attorney and former US Senator for Michigan.^{[citation needed]}
• Gene Keady – Purdue University basketball coach.^[8]
• Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s.^[9]
• Neil Kinnock – former leader of The Labour Party.^{[citation needed]}
• John McCain – former U.S. Senator of Arizona and 2008 U.S. presidential nominee.^{[citation needed]}
• Vladimir Putin – current President of Russia.^{[citation needed]}
• Heng Samrin – President of the National Assembly of Cambodia.^[10]
• Robert Robinson – former game show host.^[11][12]
• Gene Siskel – American film critic.
• Donald Trump – 45th and 47th President of the United States.^[13]
• Joko Widodo – former President of Indonesia.^{[citation needed]}
• Wilhelm I - King of Germany from 1871-89

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

Patent by Donald and Frank Smith, 1977

On 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent (U.S. patent 4,022,227) for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.

See also

• List of hairstyles
• Pattern hair loss § Society and culture