Combover hairstyle

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

Examples

Carl Levin, American attorney

• Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist^[1]
• Zero Mostel – actor, left-to-right and back-to-front
• Doug Anthony – former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia^{[citation needed]}
• Rainer Barzel – former Christian Democratic Union of Germany chairman^{[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.
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeria^[2]
• Julius Caesar – combed his hair on the side^{[citation needed]}
• Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner^[3]
• Constantine I – combed his hair forward^[4]
• Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States
• Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz – Chilean Senator^{[citation needed]}
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of France^[5]
• Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City^[6]
• Gene Keady – Purdue University basketball coach^[7]
• Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s^[8]
• Neil Kinnock – former leader of The Labour Party
• René Lévesque – former Premier of Quebec^{[citation needed]}
• Carl Levin – American attorney^{[citation needed]}
• Alexander Lukashenko – President of Belarus^{[citation needed]}
• Douglas MacArthur – American general^{[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]}
• Wang Qishan – Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China^{[citation needed]}
• Heng Samrin – President of the National Assembly of Cambodia^[9]
• Robert Robinson – former game show host^[10][11]
• Gene Siskel – American film critic
• Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States^[12]

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.