Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/INTJ
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Famous INTJs
Entertainment
- Dan Aykroyd, actor (Blues Brothers)
- Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
- Chevy Chase, actor (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
- Phil Donahue, television talk show host
- Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
- Veronica Hamel, actress (Hill Street Blues)
- Peter Jennings, television newscaster
- Joan Lunden, television talk show host
- Trent Reznor, founder of Nine Inch Nails
- Pernell Roberts, actor (Bonanza)
- Elyse Sewell, fashion model
- Maria Owens Shriver, television newscaster
Politicians and Leaders
- Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), Emperor of Rome
- William F. Buckley, Jr., conservative political advocate
- Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
- Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
- Charles Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general
- Susan B. Anthony, suffragist
- Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
- Chester A. Arthur, US President
- Calvin Coolidge, US President
- Thomas Jefferson, US President
- James K. Polk, US President
- Woodrow Wilson, US President
- John F. Kennedy, US President
- Hillary Clinton, NY Senator
- Christopher Hitchens, polemicist
- Ulysses Grant, general, US President
- Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolution leader
Athletes
- Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
- Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV, major league baseball pitcher
- Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
- Martina Navratilova, tennis champion
- Ivan Lendl, tennis champion
Literature
- Isaac Asimov, sci-fi writer (I, Robot)
- Jane Austen, author (Pride and Prejudice)
- Philip K. Dick, sci-fi writer (The Man in the High Castle)
- C. S. Lewis, author (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
- Anton Chekhov, Russian writer, dramatist
Fictional Characters
- Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
- Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
- Elphaba Thropp (Gregory Maguire's Wicked)
- Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth books)
- Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
- Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes' nemesis)
- Paul von Oberstein (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
- Ensign Ro (Star Trek--the Next Generation)
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
- George Smiley, John le Carre's master spy
- Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
- Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
- Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
- Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
- some versions of the Doctor (Doctor Who)
- Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)
- Raistlin Majere (Dragonlance Legends)
- Number Six (The Prisoner)
Others
- William J. Bennett, 'drug czar'
- Ben Bernanke, Chairman of US Federal Reserve
- Niels Bohr, physicist
- Fischer Black, economist
- Alan Greenspan, Former Chairman of US Federal Reserve
- Stephen Hawking, physicist
- John Maynard Keynes, economist
- Lise Meitner, physicist
- Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician
- Richard Stallman; founder of the FSF and the GNU project, activist, programmer
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, engineer