# One eye, two different colors... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 28, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320 "2005-02-28T18:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Megly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Megly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megly)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/1 "2005-02-28T18:01:01Z")
My right eye is roughly 75% blue and the other quarter is brown. Its very obvious, I get many comments on it. I’m just trying to find out if theres a name for it or how its caused. If anyone knows and can give me any infor or websites that would be nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/2 "2005-02-28T18:54:07Z")
I think it’s called **Heterochromia iridis** , a classmate of mine had this she was blue and fifty:fifty blue brown. There was a thread about eye colour where I think this came up sometime back (with a rather attractive photo of a doper’s boyfriend’s eye IIRC) but I’m having trouble finding it - if I do I’ll post you a link. For a factual explanation [read this](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A734933) ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/3 "2005-03-01T00:46:12Z")
My wife has one eye that’s about 2/3 brown and 1/3 green. I’ve always called it the “David Bowie eye”. (David Bowie had some kind of similar condition). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/4 "2005-03-01T06:03:46Z")
IIRC Bowie’s “jasonh300’s wife’s eye” was a result of a blow to the head during a fight - the pupil doesn’t function properly either, I think it’s always dilated. (We had a cat like that once, his pupils were always big black circles - never a slit to be seen.) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/5 "2005-03-01T13:55:18Z")
\ Hey megly, I had a college roommate who had an eye like that. Were you by any chance in college about 25 years ago? Can never remember if she had 1 3/4 blue eyes, or 1 3/4 brown eyes… \ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/6 "2005-03-01T15:18:32Z")
I’ve got a coworker like this, one eye is blue, the other eye is half blue half brown. It’s quite striking. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/7 "2005-03-01T15:37:04Z")
Is this the same thing that causes, say, one eye to be blue and the other eye to be green? I knew a couple of girls in college like that. ---
**Author:** ![Megly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Megly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/8 "2005-03-01T16:23:44Z")
[SIZE=3]I’m starting to think that its from when I was younger and was hit in the eye with a jump rope. I think I was about 7 or else its genetics. Thank you![SIZE=3] ---
**Author:** ![Megly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Megly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/9 "2005-03-01T16:25:12Z")
[SIZE=3]I’m starting to think that its from when I was younger and was hit in the eye with a jump rope. I think I was about 7 or else its genetics. Thank you![/SIZE=3] ---
**Author:** ![Megly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Megly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/10 "2005-03-01T16:27:06Z")
I’m starting to think that its from when I was younger and was hit in the eye with a jump rope. I think I was about 7 or else its genetics. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/11 "2005-03-01T19:47:37Z")
Saw an Australian Shephard (dog) with both eyes half and half, once. They were light blue and brown. I don’t remember which side which color was, but it was the same for each eye. I had just gotten used to the idea of Aussies frequently having one blue and one brown eye, too, and this dog just had to go one step beyond. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/12 "2005-03-01T21:18:22Z")
If it’s any consolation, my pupils aren’t perfectly in the middle, but rather, offset slightly to the inside. Though both of my eyes are a pretty blue/green. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/13 "2005-03-01T21:33:06Z")
I knew someone who had one eye two colors… You gotta really pay attention to notice it. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/14 "2005-03-01T22:42:09Z")
**Megly** Or maybe it was in 1960 … in the Marianas Trench … for 20 minutes. Sorry, I did not mean to make fun of your affliction, but I just couldn’t resist the chance to make (what is by now) an almost mandatory posting. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-eye-two-different-colors/292320/15 "2005-03-02T01:32:44Z")
One of my exs had this; left eye brown right one blue. She got really, really tired of people telling her, “I had a dog like that once.” Best guess about why she had it was a mutation in one of the genes controlling eye color. The rest of her family had only brown eyes.