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:
American baseball players
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) Stella Lefty (born 2002), American singer-songwriter
Fictional characters Lefty, main character in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Lefty, character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. Levsha (disambiguation), the Russian title usually translated as "Lefty" or "the Left-Hander")
See also Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a brave Roman, possibly mythical, youth who earned the cognomen Scaevola, meaning left-handed