[INTP] The Ultimate INTP List

[skycloud86]

I can't think of any INTPs from 24. Can you?

No.

 

[Gewitter27]

I think Leonardo da Vinci was an INTP. Some people say he was INTJ, but I learned that he often stopped working on projects once he knew how it would look or turn out. INTJs would not do that, by any stretch.

 

[blue mu]

howard roark is the most completely intj character i have yet to come across. although he is an architect, so i see where one might become confused.

 

[dimane]

INTP wesley snipes Greg house Paul walker

 

[freeeekyyy]

INTP wesley snipes Greg house Paul walker

Don't know about the other two, but House is definitely an ENTP...

 

[Craft]

Adam Smith's writing of "The Wealth of Nations" definitely resounds with my own way of thinking. I've been reading and rereading the book and he always likes to "cover" his footprints and make sure that they're well-founded. Every possibility of criticism is well answered and entertained. Even at the earlier chapters, he mentions the crucial distinction between the inquiry into nature of man and the inquiry into man's economics. The way he constructs the sentences makes it intuitively much easier for me to understand where he's coming from, unlike other authors who has the same distance of social and language context. It is wholesome and realistic, much like a complete equation, and it is unlike the writings of INTJ's, which I generally find directed and idea-centric.

 

[Xyk]

Has anyone mentioned Franz Kafka or Albert Camus? Both of their writing styles resonated at the same frequency as my mind. I'm really only speaking from knowledge of Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Camus' The Stranger, but I think I'm right here.

 

[Thinkist]

I think Leonardo da Vinci was an INTP. Some people say he was INTJ, but I learned that he often stopped working on projects once he knew how it would look or turn out. INTJs would not do that, by any stretch.

I saw Leonardo listed under an ISTP profile in one of Keirsey's books. He could even have been an IXTP.

Also, how could Pythagoras not be listed?

EDIT: Martin Gardner could be INTP as well, as could Douglas Hofstader (ENTP also seems possible).

 

[entropie]

Has anyone mentioned Franz Kafka or Albert Camus? Both of their writing styles resonated at the same frequency as my mind. I'm really only speaking from knowledge of Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Camus' The Stranger, but I think I'm right here.

I read both books too, what a coincidence you did as well, since I have only read about 5 books in all my life (porn magazines excluded ).

I agree with you on Kafka, could be possible. Camus I dunno, didnt know what to make out of existenzialism

Franz Kafka was born on 3.Juli 1883, I was born on 30.Juli 1983. There's definitly a link ! xD

 

[Nic]

* Dr. Gregory House – House

Disagree with Gregory House. He doesn't have many friends, but he has to have an audience to think. He needs to bounce ideas off of people. ENTP.

 

[entropie]

The main entp difference to intp: needs to have an audience and needs to bounce of ideas of them.

Really and you people call yourself thinkers...

 

[Nic]

I'll go ahead and cast a vote for Sherlock Holmes as an INTP. Possibly Kurt Vonnegut, too.

 

[dimane]

ENTP focus is more generating possibilities for change and improvement
INTP focus is understanding and solving problems
house in my opinion is an INTP plus Si greater Fe

 

[Lottie]

Just as I have done with INTJs on another forum (track me down if you wish, but I am under a different name), I have suddenly had the urge to create an ultimate list of famous INTPs, real and fictional. Well, here it is. Some of the typings are not confirmed, so if you disagree with any, please create a presentable argument in favor of your opinion. Similarly, feel free to add anyone to the list.

Famous INTPs:


* Abraham Lincoln - American President (possibly any NF, though)
* Adam Smith – Scottish moral philosopher, political economist
* Albert Einstein - German physicist
* André-Marie Ampère – French physicist
* Aristotle – Greek philosopher (possibly ENTP)
* Ashley Olsen - actress (Full House)
* Baruch Spinoza – Jewish-Portuguese philosopher
* Béla Bartók – Hungarian composer, pianist (a complete guess, probably an INxx)
* Blaise Pascal - French mathematician
* Bobby Fischer – grandmaster, chess expert (perhaps ISTP?)
* Bob Newhart - comedian, actor
* Brent Spiner - actor ("Data" on Star Trek)
* Carl Jung - Swiss psychiatrist
* Carl Sagan – astronomer, astrochemist, popularizer of natural science
* Charles Darwin - English naturalist
* Dr. David Keirsey – psychologist
* Erik Satie – French avant-garde musician (small chance of INFP)
* Fritz Lang – filmmaker (very likely INxJ)
* Galileo – Italian astronomer
* Gerald Ford - American President
* Geoffrey Pyke – British inventor (very likely ENTP, though)
* Georgia O'Keefe – painter (not entirely sure about this one)
* George Soros – Hungarian philanthropist
* Glenn Gould – Canadian pianist, Bach enthusiast, and composer (INTJ or ENTP?)
* Gottfried Leibniz – German mathematician, ‘natural philosopher,’ and polymath
* Gregory Peck - actor
* Henry Cavendish – British scientist
* Edward Witten – theoretical physicist, string theorist, founder of M-theory
* Isaac Newton – astrophysicist, ‘natural philosopher’, and alchemist
* Jack Kevorkian – notorious pathologist
* James Madison - American President
* Jeff Bingaman - U.S. Senator
* John F. Nash Jr. – mathematician, game theorist
* John Quincy Adams - American President
* John Tyler - American President
* Ludwig Boltzmann – Austrian physicist
* Marie Curie – Polish/French physicist, chemist
* Mary-Kate Olsen - actress (Full House)
* Meryl Streep - actress
* Midori Ito - Japanese figure skater
* Nicolaus Copernicus – Polish mathematician and astronomer
* Nikola Tesla – Serbian inventor, engineer, and physicist (INTJ and ENTP, perhaps?)
* Norbert Wiener – Russian/American mathematician
* Oliver Heaviside – British mathematician, engineer, and physicist (maybe INTJ)
* Parmenides – Greek philosopher
* Pierre De Fermat – mathematician (again, somewhat of a guess)
* Rene Descartes - French philosopher
* Rick Moranis - actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
* Robert Rosen – theoretical biologist
* Socrates - Greek philosopher
* Steve Allen – comedian, writer, musician (not so sure where this came from)
* Steve Wozniak – computer engineer, co-founder of Apple (ENTP?)
* Thales – Greek philosopher, “Father of Science”
* Thomas Jefferson – U.S. president
* Theodore Kaczynski (“The Unabomber”) – infamous criminal (Seems somewhat ‘J’)
* William Harvey - medical doctor
* William James - American psychologist

Fictional:

* Ash - Alien
* Avon - Blake's 7
* Bernard Marx – A Brave New World
* Brian Griffin - Family Guy
* Data - Start Trek: The Next Generation
* Dexter – Dexter’s Laboratory
* Dr. Gregory House – House
* Dr. Otto Octavius (‘Doc Ock’) – Marvel Comics
* Dr. Susan Lewis - E.R. TV show
* Filburt - Rocko's Modern Life
* Howard Roark – The Fountainhead (INTJ? ISTP?)
* John Galt – Atlas Shrugged
* Klaus and Violet Baudelaire – A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Linus van Pelt – Peanuts
* Luna Lovegood – Harry Potter
* Mycroft Holmes (and less likely his more famous brother Sherlock) (INTJ?)
* Peter Parker/Spiderman – Marvel Comics
* Phileas Fogg – Around the World in Eighty Days (both the novel and the film)
* Professor Calculus – Tintin
* Seven of Nine - Star Trek: Voyager
* Tails – Sonic the Hedgehog

I always thought of Luna Lovegood as more of an INFP, but most eccentrics are NTs, so INTP is a possibility too.
Although, Luna doesn't seem "logical" enough to be an NT.

 

[RaptorWizard]

Why was Nikola Tesla INTP, and I did not even see Leonardo da Vinci on the list!

What is an INTP/INTJ/ENTJ/ENTP?

 

[RaptorWizard]

The smartest INTP of the 20th Century was Walter Russell, and nobody even knows who he is!

 

[Oeufa]

I know this is an old thread, but I really must disagree with Glenn Gould. He's an ExxJ, possible ENTJ or ESTJ. No way do I see INTP at all!

 

[JLM]

Just as I have done with INTJs on another forum (track me down if you wish, but I am under a different name), I have suddenly had the urge to create an ultimate list of famous INTPs, real and fictional. Well, here it is. Some of the typings are not confirmed, so if you disagree with any, please create a presentable argument in favor of your opinion. Similarly, feel free to add anyone to the list.

Famous INTPs:


* Abraham Lincoln - American President (possibly any NF, though)

Nope INFJ

* Adam Smith – Scottish moral philosopher, political economist


* Albert Einstein - German physicist

Possible although ENTP is likely as well

* André-Marie Ampère – French physicist
* Aristotle – Greek philosopher (possibly ENTP)
* Ashley Olsen - actress (Full House)
* Baruch Spinoza – Jewish-Portuguese philosopher
* Béla Bartók – Hungarian composer, pianist (a complete guess, probably an INxx)
* Blaise Pascal - French mathematician
* Bobby Fischer – grandmaster, chess expert (perhaps ISTP?)
* Bob Newhart - comedian, actor
* Brent Spiner - actor ("Data" on Star Trek)
* Carl Jung - Swiss psychiatrist
* Carl Sagan – astronomer, astrochemist, popularizer of natural science
* Charles Darwin - English naturalist
* Dr. David Keirsey – psychologist
* Erik Satie – French avant-garde musician (small chance of INFP)
* Fritz Lang – filmmaker (very likely INxJ)
* Galileo – Italian astronomer
* Gerald Ford - American President
* Geoffrey Pyke – British inventor (very likely ENTP, though)
* Georgia O'Keefe – painter (not entirely sure about this one)
* George Soros – Hungarian philanthropist
* Glenn Gould – Canadian pianist, Bach enthusiast, and composer (INTJ or ENTP?)
* Gottfried Leibniz – German mathematician, ‘natural philosopher,’ and polymath
* Gregory Peck - actor
* Henry Cavendish – British scientist
* Edward Witten – theoretical physicist, string theorist, founder of M-theory
* Isaac Newton – astrophysicist, ‘natural philosopher’, and alchemist
* Jack Kevorkian – notorious pathologist
* James Madison - American President
* Jeff Bingaman - U.S. Senator
* John F. Nash Jr. – mathematician, game theorist
* John Quincy Adams - American President
* John Tyler - American President
* Ludwig Boltzmann – Austrian physicist
* Marie Curie – Polish/French physicist, chemist
* Mary-Kate Olsen - actress (Full House)
* Meryl Streep - actress
* Midori Ito - Japanese figure skater
* Nicolaus Copernicus – Polish mathematician and astronomer
* Nikola Tesla – Serbian inventor, engineer, and physicist (INTJ and ENTP, perhaps?)
* Norbert Wiener – Russian/American mathematician
* Oliver Heaviside – British mathematician, engineer, and physicist (maybe INTJ)
* Parmenides – Greek philosopher
* Pierre De Fermat – mathematician (again, somewhat of a guess)
* Rene Descartes - French philosopher
* Rick Moranis - actor (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
* Robert Rosen – theoretical biologist
* Socrates - Greek philosopher
* Steve Allen – comedian, writer, musician (not so sure where this came from)
* Steve Wozniak – computer engineer, co-founder of Apple (ENTP?)
* Thales – Greek philosopher, “Father of Science”
* Thomas Jefferson – U.S. president
* Theodore Kaczynski (“The Unabomber”) – infamous criminal (Seems somewhat ‘J’)
* William Harvey - medical doctor
* William James - American psychologist

Fictional:

* Ash - Alien
* Avon - Blake's 7
* Bernard Marx – A Brave New World
* Brian Griffin - Family Guy
* Data - Start Trek: The Next Generation
* Dexter – Dexter’s Laboratory
* Dr. Gregory House – House

Nope ENTJ

* Dr. Otto Octavius (‘Doc Ock’) – Marvel Comics

Nope INTJ

* Dr. Susan Lewis - E.R. TV show
* Filburt - Rocko's Modern Life
* Howard Roark – The Fountainhead (INTJ? ISTP?)
* John Galt – Atlas Shrugged
* Klaus and Violet Baudelaire – A Series of Unfortunate Events
* Linus van Pelt – Peanuts
* Luna Lovegood – Harry Potter
* Mycroft Holmes (and less likely his more famous brother Sherlock) (INTJ?)
* Peter Parker/Spiderman – Marvel Comics

Nope INFP is more probable, way too sensitive to be a T


* Phileas Fogg – Around the World in Eighty Days (both the novel and the film)
* Professor Calculus – Tintin
* Seven of Nine - Star Trek: Voyager
* Tails – Sonic the Hedgehog

 

[Speed Gavroche]

You forgot the funniest one:

Also Alain Resnais, Woody Allen, Tina Fey, Larry David, Lou Reed...

They are great INTPs and they are not on your list.

 

[lunalum]

I always thought of Luna Lovegood as more of an INFP, but most eccentrics are NTs, so INTP is a possibility too.
Although, Luna doesn't seem "logical" enough to be an NT.

Luna's a pretty hard one to type. If you look at her purely through functions though she actually seems like some sort of intuitive dominant with feeling secondary, so maybe INFJ or even a very atypical ENFP.

* Albert Einstein - German physicist
Possible although ENTP is likely as well

Eh, way too of an example of a Ti dom, despite some of his Ne flavored ways.

* Carl Sagan – astronomer, astrochemist, popularizer of natural science

Seems like more of an extraverted thinker maybe. ENTJ?

* Socrates - Greek philosopher

What we know of him really seems more ENTP to me, though admittedly that isn't very much...

* Peter Parker/Spiderman – Marvel Comics
Nope INFP is more probable

Agreed.

Some of the others are questionable too but I don't know enough of them to comment further.