A comb over or combover is a hairstyle commonly worn by balding men in which the hair is grown long and combed over the bald area to minimize the appearance of baldness. Sometimes the parting is lowered so that more hair can be used to cover the balding area. Examples Iñaki Anasagasti – Basque nationalist Zero Mostel – actor, left-to-right and back-to-front Doug Anthony – former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Rainer Barzel – former Christian Democratic Union of Germany chairman 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 Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz – Chilean Senator Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – President of France Rudy Giuliani – former Mayor of New York City 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 René Lévesque – former Premier of Quebec Carl Levin – American attorney Alexander Lukashenko – President of Belarus Douglas MacArthur – American general John McCain – former U.S. Senator of Arizona and 2008 U.S. presidential nominee Vladimir Putin – current President of Russia Wang Qishan – Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China 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. See also List of hairstyles References Further reading External links Hairstyles Human appearance