Lefty

Lefty is a nickname for a person who is left-handed. The nickname is commonly given to baseball players, particularly pitchers who throw left. Lefty may refer to:

Pitchers

 * Lefty Bell (fl. 1948)
 * Lefty Bertrand (1909–2002)
 * Lefty Boone (1920–1976)
 * Randolph "Lefty" Bowe (1918–2016)
 * Lefty Bowers (1909–1978)
 * Farmer "Lefty" Brady (1893–1957)
 * Walter "Lefty" Calhoun (1911–1976)
 * Lefty Capers (1906–1961)
 * Steve Carlton (born 1944)
 * Cliff Chambers (1922–2012)
 * Lefty Clarke (1896–1975), pitched for one game
 * Frank "Lefty" Fanovich (1923–2011)
 * Lefty George (1886–1955)
 * Lefty Gervais (1890–1950)
 * Lefty Gomez (1908–1989), Mexican-American
 * Lefty Grove (1900–1975)
 * Lefty Harvey (1890–unknown)
 * Lefty Herring (1880–1965)
 * Lefty Hoerst (1917–2000)
 * Lefty Holmes (1907–1987)
 * Lefty Hopper (1874–1959)
 * Frank Killen (1870–1939)
 * Lefty Leifield (1883–1970)
 * Lefty Mellix (1896–1985)
 * Lefty Moses (1914–1989)
 * Lefty Pangburn (1886–1973)
 * Lefty Phillips (born 1918)
 * Lefty Robinson (1891–1974)
 * Lefty Stewart (1900–1974)
 * Lefty Tyler (1889–1953)
 * Lefty Weinert (1900–1973)
 * Lefty Wilkie (1914–1992), Canadian
 * Lefty Williams (1893–1959), involved in the Black Sox scandal
 * Lefty York (1892–1961)

Other baseball players

 * Lefty Atkinson (1904–1961)
 * Lefty Davis (1875–1919), outfielder
 * Lefty Guise (1908–1968)
 * Lefty Houtz (1875–1959), outfielder
 * Lefty Marr (1862–1912)
 * Lefty Mills (1912–1982)
 * Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), Major League Baseball player and minor league manager
 * Lefty Phillips (1919–1972), Major League Baseball coach, manager, scout and executive

Other people

 * Lefty Bates (1920–2007), American Chicago blues guitarist
 * Lefty Byers (1905–2000), American basketball coach and player
 * Paul "Lefty" Courty (1925–2008), American basketball player
 * Lefty Dizz (1937–1993), American guitarist and singer
 * Lefty Driesell (1931–2024), American college basketball coach
 * Lefty Frizzell (1928–1975), American country music singer and songwriter
 * Maurice Bennett "Lefty" Flynn (1892–1959), American football player and actor
 * Lefty Hendrickson (born 1943), Canadian football player
 * Lefty Kreh (1925–2018), American fly fisherman and photographer
 * Lefty McFadden, namesake of the Lefty McFadden Invitational college ice hockey tournament
 * Phil Mickelson (born 1970), American professional golfer
 * Lefty Reid (1927–2020), Canadian curator
 * Frank Rosenthal (1929–2008), American sports handicapper, Las Vegas casino executive, bookmaker and organized crime associate
 * Lefty Ruggiero (1926–1994), American mobster
 * Lew Tendler (1898–1970), American Hall-of-Fame boxer
 * "Lefty", an on-air name for American disc jockey Captain Mikey, born Marion Elbridge Herrington (1935–1997)


 * Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
 * Lefty, character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.