Movies

• The most famous fictional character in the history of movies -- the character who symbolizes movies -- is left-handed: the Little Tramp, played by Charlie Chaplin in nearly all of his films, ending with Modern Times. All the later roles played by Chaplin are also left-handed, including Monsieur Verdoux and Adenoid Hynkel, the Great Dictator. In several of his films, Chaplin plays a left-handed violin: the chin rest and the sounding post are reversed, and the strings are in reverse order.
• Neo from The Matrix
• Keyser Soze from The Usual Suspects
• Scar Predator (Alien vs. Predator)
• "The Italian Stallion" Rocky Balboa (Rocky series of movies)
• King Théoden from The Lord of the Rings
• Rafiki from The Lion King
• A large number of characters from Advent Children: Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo as original characters to the movie, as well as Sephiroth, Reno, Cid,and Tifa,who return from the game, where they were also left-handed. The connection that Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo all share with Sephiroth gives them all Sephiroth-esque appearances, so it is only natural that they all share his sword-arm as well.
• John McClane (Bruce Willis) from the action film Die Hard is left-handed.
• Jimmy Smith Jr. (Eminem) from the film 8 Mile is left handed.
• Barry Pepper the sniper in Saving Private Ryan is left handed, as can be seen in the closeup scenes of him shooting with his Springfield rifle on his left shoulder, and occasionally having difficulty operating the right handed bolt action.
• Liu Ti Lung, the boxer in the The One Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine, fights using only his left-arm (and both legs) considering his right-arm has been removed.

TV shows

• The android Data in The Next Generation is allegedly ambidextrous, and Brent Spiner (the actor who portrayed Data) has claimed that he intentionally depicts Data using both hands interchangeably. However, Spiner is himself left-handed, and his scenes as Data almost invariably depict Data favoring his left hand.
• In The Next Generation episode "Ship in a Bottle", the fictional character Professor Moriarty (from the Sherlock Holmes stories) is established as left-handed. There is no information in the original Sherlock Holmes canon either to confirm or to refute this.
• Gin, part of the Black Organization from the Detective Conan (Case Closed) anime series.
• Tuvok, the Vulcan security officer in Voyager, was portrayed by left-handed actor Tim Russ, who played Tuvok with left-handed traits.
• Rob Petrie, played by left-handed actor Dick Van Dyke in The Dick Van Dyke Show. In the epsode "The Impractical Joke", Rob mentions that he is left-handed.
• Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart and Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses are both left-handed ... as are all other roles performed by left-handed actor Nicholas Lyndhurst.
• Sha Gojyo, from Gensomaden Saiyuki.
• Some characters from The Simpsons: Bart Simpson, Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders, Moe Szyslak, Martin Prince, Nelson Muntz, including Lisa Simpson and Krusty the Clown. In fact, Ned Flanders opened a store designed for left-handed people known as the Leftorium. Homer Simpson was shown holding a pencil with his left hand but switched to his right in the next scene.
• Haruhara Haruko, from FLCL.
• Echizen Ryoma and Tezuka Kunimitsu, from Prince of Tennis.
• Peter Griffin, Chris Griffin, and Stewie Griffin from Family Guy. In fact, most of the characters have a tendency to switch from right-handed to left-handed between episodes.
• Eric Cartman, from South Park.
• Chuckie Finster, from Rugrats.
• Dave Starsky, from Starsky and Hutch.
• SpongeBob, from SpongeBob SquarePants (In one episode, as part of a joke, he is shown to have two left hands).
• Arnold, from Hey Arnold! (sometimes right-handed).
• Dilbert, from the show Dilbert.
• The comic strip character Andy Capp, who is notoriously work-shy, once turned down a job offer for "a good right-hand man" by claiming to be left-handed. It is not clear whether Andy is indeed left-handed, or whether he merely said this as an excuse.
• Number Six, the title character in The Prisoner, is right-handed (played by right-handed actor Patrick McGoohan). In the episode "The Schizoid Man", Number Six was subjected to aversion therapy which made him perform actions left-handed.
• Doug Funnie, from the show Doug.
• Ginger Foutley, from As Told By Ginger.
• Lisa Cuddy and Eric Foreman, from House
• Gromit, from Wallace and Gromit
• Reggie Rocket, from Rocket Power.
• Lex Luthor, from Smallville. (This is only due to the fact that Michael Rosenbaum is left-handed. the incarnations of Luthor in the comics and Superman movies appear to be, for the most part, right-handed)
• Both Petes, from The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
• Wheezie, from Dragon Tales. (Doesn't have a right hand.)
• Armon, from Mummies Alive!. (Might've been forced to switch to his left arm at one point, as he lost his right arm prior to the series.)
• Michael Vaughn, (actor Michael Vartan is left-handed) from Alias.
• Brain Powers, from Arthur.
• Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza from Seinfeld.
• Zim from Invader Zim
• Gekkou Hayate and Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto
• Zartan from G.I. Joe
• Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Dale, from Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
• Mambo from Duckman (Doesn't have a right hand.)

• Most of the Muppets, including Big Bird.
• Pidge from Voltron.
• Xandir from Drawn Together. (This is possibly in reference to the fact that Xandir is based on Link from The Legend of Zelda, who is also left-handed.).
• Detective Goren from Criminal Intent.
• Roronoa Zoro and Shanks from One Piece. Shanks lost his left-arm saving the life of a young Luffy and yet, even as a former left-handed swordsman, retains almost all his prowess in combat.
• Ash Williams from "Evil Dead" series.In Evil Dead 2 he gives a left punch to his car,even if his right punch was closer to the car.In some screenshots you can see him holding the shotgun with his left hand.He cuts his right hand,therefore is holding the shotgun in his left hand.He shoots very well with his left hand.

Video games

• Link from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series He is one of the main creations of Shigeru Miyamoto, who is left-handed himself, and has intentionally created many of his characters to be.
• Bowser Jr. from various Mario games. Additionally, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 has portrayed Ludwig, Lemmy and Wendy Koopa as left-handers.
• Although Mario plays sports games right-handed by default, these games also usually have the option to choose to switch to left-handed, a rare detail in video games. Additionally; Waluigi, Bowser Jr., Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Boo, and Petey Piranha from Mario Superstar Baseball all throw lefty as their default setting. However, in the opening movie from Mario Power Tennis, Waluigi scribbles with his right hand.
• Kain Highwind and Palom from Final Fantasy IV
• Raphael Sorel, Aeon Calcos (The original Lizardman) and Siegfried Schtauffen/Nightmare, from the Soul series. Additionally, Cervantes de Leon is questionable, as he uses his much larger and heavier sword in his left hand, while the sword in his right doubles as a gun, which covers both common ways of determining laterality. He may simply be ambidexterous.
• Sephiroth, Reno, Cid and Tifa from Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII are left handed, as seen also in Advent Children. In Cid's case, he may have taken this trait from the character Kain Highwind of Final Fantasy IV (see above), from whom he takes many other traits as well. Additionally, Barret only has a left hand, as his right was destroyed and replaced with a gun-arm.
• Shion Uzuki from the Xenosaga series.
• Angelo from the Square Enix game Dragon Quest VIII
• Yoshimitsu from the Tekken series (but not Yoshimitsu from the Soul Calibur series)
• Johnny, Sol Badguy and Baiken from the Guilty Gear series.
• The Space Marine, the player's character, in Doom
• Lefto Or (Aka. Leftor), Horst Hiemelman, and Wendy Lachesis from Princess Maker 2
• Shadow the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Strangely enough, he appears to be right-handed in Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Heroes, but is left-handed in the Shadow the Hedgehog game (however, he only used his left hand to hold guns and use Chaos Control. He uses his right hand for everything else, such as throwing, picking up boxes, hanging onto bars, etc.).
• Some units and heroes from Warcraft 3, such as: Peasant, Footman, Knight,Priest(?) Grunt, Wind Rider, Troll Batrider, Shaman, Dryad, Abomination(?), Priestess of the Moon, Death Knight, Far Seer, Crypt Lord, Beastmaster, Pandaren Brewmaster, Tinker

Books

• Ojo the Lucky (née Unlucky) from L. Frank Baum's Oz books.
• Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell, from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
• Levsha/Lefty from The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea
• Sergeant Raymond Shaw from The Manchurian Candidate
• Gottfried Plattner, in The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells (1896) is a right-handed man who is accidentally rotated through the fourth dimension of space. When he returns to our world, he is mirror-reversed and left-handed.
• Ted Dolliver, in the novel The Land of No Shadow by Carl H. Claudy (1933) is a right-handed man who is rotated through the fourth dimension of space. When he returns, he is left-handed. His entire body has become mirror-reversed: his heart is now on the wrong side of his body, and his wristwatch runs counter-clockwise with all of its components reversed.
• Mitch Rapp from Separation of Power
• Konrad from All Tomorrow's Parties
• Allie Caulfied from The Catcher in the Rye. His brother Holden is suspected of being left-handed as well.
• Beverly Marsh and Michael Hanlon from Stephen King's novel It
• Roland Deschain, a gunslinger from Stephen King's The Dark Tower books was forced to become left handed in The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three after a monster known as a lobstrosity bit off most of his fingers on his right hand. Throughout the rest of the series Roland was forced to use his left hand on most things he did regularly with his right.
• Lord Voldemort (Tom Riddle) from the Harry Potter series. Additionally, he marks all of his followers with a special tattoo (the Dark Mark) on their left arm, possibly related to the fact that this is his wand arm.
• Secheb, one of the murder suspects in The Weighing of the Heart by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (2002), a murder mystery set in ancient Egypt. The murder weapon is a longbow with a leather grip that is well-worn on its left side but only slightly worn on its right side. When an investigator flings the longbow at Secheb, he instinctively catches it with his left hand. He explains this by stating "Enuk smehi", Egyptian for "I am left-handed."
• Erik from Phantom by Susan Kay.
• Richard MacDuff, from Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
• One of the coal miners in How Green Was My Valley was left-handed. After crippling his left hand in an accident, he must contend with well-meaning strangers who (not knowing he was left-handed) tell him he's lucky the injury was to his left hand.
• In Justice League comics of the 1960's, Wonder Woman's lasso is usually on her left hip, and used by her left hand.
• Teen Detectives Nancy Drew, and Joe Hardy (of the Hardy Boys) are shown by some illustrators with their watch on their right wrist, which is more common among left-handed people.
• Hobbes from Bill Watterson's "Calvin And Hobbes" is often shown to be left handed. Calvin though primarily right handed, is sometimes portrayed as a left hander.
• Kay Scarpetta, main character in Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series.
• Following the Zero Hour reboot of the Legion of Super Heroes, Cosmic Boy was fairly consistantly shown as having his flight ring on his left-hand. This has not been maintained in the more recent incarnation of the team.
• Ichi from Koroshiya Ichi is shown to use a Southpaw stance when using a kicking machine.
• Johnny Tremain was forced to become left handed after an accident left his right hand severely crippled.

Others

• A large percentage of characters from The Wotch
• Bonnie and Leddinger, characters of Dean Dodrill and from his potential future movie, the Elysian Tail.
• Tux, the penguin mascot for Linux, who is occasionally shown with weaponry to "protect" the computer user.
• Ziggy Stardust, from the David Bowie (Left handed himself) album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, is said to play the guitar "left hand(ed)."
• A reasonable and realistic number of the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures, including some unique characters: Alusair Obarskyr, Rhek, Ulmo Lightbringer, and Ghaele Eladrin. None of these characters have been featured outside of minis.
• Homestar Runner has been shown playing the bass as well as other instruments left handed (though technically he has no hands at all)
• Luann DeGroot, from the comic strip Luann.
• The Blue Cat from the flash movie Nightmare City and it's sequel, Nightmare City: Catastrophe
• Near from Death Note is seen cutting paper using his left hand.

See also

• Handedness
• Left-handedness
• List of famous left-handed people

Lists of fictional characters by distinguishing feature