Left-Handed Musicians

A

Alex Arcari of Never Too Soon (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Tim Armstrong (Rancid) (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

B

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
Perry Bamonte ex-The Cure (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Justin Bieber (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Eric Bogle (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

David Byrne of Talking Heads

C

Jo Callis of The Rezillos/The Human League (left-handed guitarist with the strings

correct)

Calogero (left-handed guitarist and bassist with the strings correct)

Ali Campbell ex-UB40 (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Glen Campbell
Vicki Carr
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Natale Cole
Phil Collins of Genesis
David Cook (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Ray Cyrus (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

D

Dick Dale (guitarist)
Willie Duncan of Spider Murphy Gang  (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

E

Elliot Easton of The Cars (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Klaus Eichstadt of Ugly Kid Joe (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)

F

Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk of The Aquabats  (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Bela Fleck, jazz musician
Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
Paulo Furtado of Wraygunn/The Legendary Tigerman (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

G

Eric Gale, guitarist
Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Judy Garland
Crysal Gayle
Jimmy Gough of Rare Gems Odyssey (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Paul Gray of Slipknot (a left-hander who started out on a right-handed guitar/bass but now plays left-handed with the strings correct)

Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)

H

Isaac Hayes

Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
Jimi Hendrix (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Imai Hisashi of Buck-Tick (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Steve Howe of Tomorrow, Yes and Asia

I

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

J

Paskal Jakobsen of BLØF (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

George Johnson of the Brothers Johnson (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

K
Albert King, guitarist
Dave King of Flogging Molly  (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Dave Kilminster (originally played guitar left-handed, with the strings correct, until injury and now exclusively plays right-handed)

L

Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors

John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols/ Public Image Ltd.

M

Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione, trumpet
Martina McBride, country music singer
Paul McCartney of The Beatles and Wings (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Al McKay of Earth, Wind & Fire (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Mike "Gunface" McKenzie of The Red Chord (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
George Michael (Wham!)
Paul Mullen of The Automatic/Young Legionnaire/Yourcodenameis:milo (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

N

Peter Nero, conductor

O

P

Joe Perry of Aerosmith
Robert Plant of Led Zepplin
Cole Porter, song-writer
Mac Powell of Third Day (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Q

R

Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer
Maurice Ravel, composer
Lou Rawls
Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Omar Rodríguez-López of At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Verónica Romeo (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Lukas Rossi (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct but can play the guitar with either hand)

S

Seal
Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel
Ringo Starr of The Beatles
Jeffrey Steele formerly of Boy Howdy (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Rich Szabo, trumpeter

T
Tiny Tim
Sylvia Tyson (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

U

V

Rudy Valee
Zacky Vengeance of Avenged Sevenfold (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Douglas Verhoeven of In-Quest (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Kaizer Von Loopy of Hanzel Und Gretyl (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

W

Ryan Waste of Municipal Waste (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Lenny White, drummer
Andrew White of Kaiser Chiefs (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Slim Whitman (left-handed guitarist with the strings correct)

Paul Williams, song-writer

XYZ

Originally posted on Tuesday, 08 March 2011