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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.

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• Patent

• See also

• References

• Further reading

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• Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist.cite-ref-1[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.

• 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-ref-2[2]

• Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeriacite-ref-3[3]

• Julius Caesar – combed his hair on the side.

• Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner.cite-ref-4[4]

• Constantine I – combed his hair forward.cite-ref-5[5]

• Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States.

• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of Francecite-ref-6[6]

• Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City.cite-ref-7[7]

• Carl Levin – American attorney and former US Senator for Michigan.

• Gene Keady – Purdue University basketball coach.cite-ref-doyel-8-0[8]

• Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s.cite-ref-9[9]

• Neil Kinnock – former leader of The Labour Party.

• John McCain – former U.S. Senator of Arizona and 2008 U.S. presidential nominee.

• Vladimir Putin – current President of Russia.

• Heng Samrin – President of the National Assembly of Cambodia.cite-ref-10[10]

• Robert Robinson – former game show host.cite-ref-11[11]cite-ref-12[12]

• Gene Siskel – American film critic.

• Donald Trump – 45th and 47th President of the United States.cite-ref-13[13]

• Dick Van Patten - American actor

• Joko Widodo – former President of Indonesia.

• Wilhelm I - King of Germany from 1871-89

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.

• List of hairstyles

• Pattern hair loss § Society and culture

cite-note-11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

cite-note-22. ↑ citerefallen1990Allen, Henry (14 September 1990). "SOUTER VS. THE SENATORS THE YANKEE TAKES THE LEAD". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 28 June 2022.

cite-note-33. ↑ "الرئيس". El-mouradia.dz. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

cite-note-44. ↑ citereflewisLewis, Rob. "Oxford Student – TT2005 Week 7 – Features – Charlton". Oxfordstudent.com. Archived from the original on 18 November 2005.

cite-note-55. ↑ citerefstephenson-paul2010Stephenson, Paul (2010). Constantine, Roman Emperor, Christian Victor. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-4683-0300-1.

cite-note-66. ↑ citerefdepardon-raymond2005Depardon, Raymond (2005). Raymond Depardon: fotograaf en filmer. Episode Publishers. ISBN 978-9059730403.

cite-note-77. ↑ "Giuliani combs over new look". Chicago Tribune. 16 September 2002.

cite-note-doyel-88. ↑ citerefdoyel2014Doyel, Gregg (12 November 2014). "Gene Keady spent how much on that combover". Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015.

cite-note-99. ↑ Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore Deputy speaker of parliament, Tan Soo Khoon, taking his oath of allegiance as Member of Parliament (Alexandra) at the opening of parliament Archived 11 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine National Archives of Singapore, 25 February 1985, retrieved 9 February 2017

cite-note-1010. ↑ 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

cite-note-1111. ↑ citerefdugdale2002Dugdale, John (9 March 2002). "Volume control". Books.guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

cite-note-1212. ↑ "Ask the Family, BBC2, Monday". thecustard.tv. 9 May 2012. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2012.

cite-note-1313. ↑ "Donald Trump's Comb-Over Came Undone, and It Was All Caught on Video". Glamour. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2021.

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• citerefwalker2010Walker, W. H. (2010). "Is the "Comb Over" Dying? A Mouse Model for Male Pattern Baldness (Androgenic Alopecia)". Endocrinology. 151 (5): 1981–1983. doi:10.1210/en.2010-0217. PMID 20410210.

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