Sideburns
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Sideburns are patches of facial hair on the sides of one's face, in front of the ears. They were originally called burnsides, possibly after General Ambrose Burnside. His hairstyle, commonly known as mutton-chops or "chops", connected thick sideburns via the moustache but left the chin clean-shaven.
Sideburns may end at mid-ear level; they may end at the earlobe; or they may extend downward and follow the jawline, nearly meeting at the chin. They can be slender or wide, clipped closely or allowed to grow bushy. They can end in points, or bluntly, and be either cut squarely or flared wide, following the hairline on the upper cheek. They can be worn alone, or in combination with a moustache or a goatee. However, when they extend from ear to ear via the chin, the sideburns are merely part of the beard, and thus are not known as such.
Indigenous men of Mexico, who shave their heads and wear their sideburns long, as well as Colombians, who wear their sideburns long and typically do not have any other facial hair, are said to be wearing balcarrotas.
After the clean-shaven period of the eighteenth century, sideburns, like beards, became greatly popular in the nineteenth century throughout the Western world, a trend later adopted in Japan. Nineteenth-century sideburns were often much more extravagant than those seen today - very bushy and extending much further down, almost to the chin. As with beards, sideburns went widely out of fashion in the early twentieth century, but made a comeback in the 1960s and 1970s among the younger generation. Thus, depending on one's perspective, growing sideburns may be seen as stuffily Victorian and ultra-conservative or a sign of 1970s-style rebelliousness. Today sideburns enjoy an intermediate level of popularity.
Men known for their sideburns
- John Quincy Adams, American President
- Brady Anderson, Baltimore Orioles player
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Queen Victoria's husband
- Duane Allman, Lead guitarist of The Allman Brothers Band
- Chester A. Arthur, American President
- Isaac Asimov, Russian-American author
- The Beatles
- Claude Bernard, French physiologist
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer
- Simon Bolivar, South American revolutionary
- Martin Van Buren, American President
- General Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War general
- Anthony Comstock, American reformer
- Charles Darwin, British naturalist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
- Emerson Fittipaldi, F1 driver
- César Franck, French composer
- Graeme Garden, British Comedian, member of The Goodies
- W. S. Gilbert, British playwright and librettist
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and scientist
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
- Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
- Hugh Jackman, Australian actor best known as Wolverine in the X-Men movie series.
- Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
- Sheridan Le Fanu, writer
- Lupin III, anime character
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, English novelist, playwright, and politician
- F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Scottish-born writer
- Joe Mauer, baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
- Justin Pierre, Lead singer/guitarist of Motion City Soundtrack
- Patrick Stump, Lead Singer/guitarist of Fall Out Boy
- Elvis Presley, American singer
- Alexandr Pushkin, Russian writer
- James Reavis, American criminal
- Burt Rutan, American aircraft designer
- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
- James Young Simpson, physician to Queen Victoria
- Herbert Spencer, English philospopher
- Arthur Sullivan, British composer
- Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian Prime Minister
- Richard Wagner, German composer
- William Walker, American mercenary
- Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany, German emperor
- Neil Young, Canadian rock star
- Fernando Poe Jr., Philippine actor
- Ray Manzarek Organist for The Doors.
- Lemmy Kilmister, Lead vocals and bassist for Motorhead.
- Triple H, WWE wrestler, performing on the RAW brand.
- Justin Miller, Brokeback mountaineer
- Steven Hudec, American philosopher