Lefty

Lefty is a nickname for a person who is left-handed. Lefty may refer to:

• Lefty Bates (1920–2007), American Chicago blues guitarist
• Lefty Bertrand (1909–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
• Steve Carlton (born 1944), American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
• Cliff Chambers (1922–2012), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lefty Clarke (1896–1975), Major League Baseball pitcher for one game
• Lefty Driesell (born 1931), American college basketball coach
• Lefty Frizzell (1928–1975), American country music singer and songwriter
• Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), Mexican-American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lefty Grove (1900–1975), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
• Lefty Leifield (1883–1970), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lefty Marr (1862–1912), American Major League Baseball player
• Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), American Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
• Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer
• Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), American Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive
• Frank Rosenthal (1929–2008), sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate whose career is the basis of the Martin Scorsese film Casino
• Benjamin Ruggiero (1926–1994), American mobster
• Lefty Stewart (1900–1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lew Tendler, American Hall of Fame boxer
• Lefty Tyler (1889–1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lefty Weinert (1900–1973), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
• Lefty Wilkie (1914–1992), Canadian Major League Baseball pitcher
• Lefty Williams (1893–1959), American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher involved in the Black Sox scandal
• an on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)

See also

• Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed