Comb over

A comb over or combover is a hairstyle 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.

Examples

 * Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist.
 * Zero Mostel – actor, left-to-right and back-to-front.
 * 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.
 * Abdelaziz Bouteflika – President of Algeria
 * Julius Caesar – combed his hair on the side.
 * Bobby Charlton – English World Cup winner.
 * Constantine I – combed his hair forward.
 * Charles W. Fairbanks – 26th vice president of the United States.
 * Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of France
 * Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City.
 * Carl Levin – American attorney and former US Senator for Michigan.
 * Gene Keady – Purdue University basketball coach.
 * Tan Soo Khoon – former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore – had a combover in the 1980s.
 * 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.
 * Robert Robinson – former game show host.
 * Gene Siskel – American film critic.
 * Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States.

Patent
On 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.