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My compilation of famous INFJs with photos!

These are some ENFJs that I have found. Similar types think in similar ways about the world, so I think it would benefit any INFJ to get better acquainted with works of some of the famous xNFJ thinkers, philosophers, and political leaders. You might find that you have been thinking the very same things that these people have written about.


George Gurdjieff - biography - quotes
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff - a Greek-Armenian mystic and a spiritual teacher of what came to be called "the Work" or "The Fourth Way", in which he taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy through various awareness exercises. According to his teachings, such inner development is the beginning of a possible further process of change, and spiritual evolution.

Robert Anton Wilson (RAW) - biography - quotes
Robert Anton Wilson was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized as an episkopos, pope, and saint of Discordianism, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings, interviews, and strolls. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth". His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything".

Oscar Wilde - biography - quotes
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death.

Voltaire - biography - quotes
François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, freedom of expression, free trade and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws with harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

Benjamin Franklin - biography - quotes
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university.

Richard Feynman - biography - quotes
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

Salvador Dali - biography - quotes
Salvador Domingo Felipe was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Malcolm X - biography - quotes
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

Nelson Mandela - biography - quotes
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African politician who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before being elected president, Mandela was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela went on to serve 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island. Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to the establishment of democracy in 1994. As president, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, while introducing policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa.

Adolf Hitler - biography - quotes
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who lead the Nazi party from 1921 to 1945. He served as Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and as dictatorial leader of the Third Reich from 1934 to 1945.
 
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Kurt Cobain was NOT INFJ.

You can add: Abraham Lincoln; Edward Norton; Thom Yorke; Adrian Brody.
 
You also forgot Chiang Kai-Shek and Trotsky.
When I collect another "batch" of INFJs I will make a 4th compilation.
Gandhi and Thom Yorke will definitely be on it.

You also forgot Chiang Kai-Shek and Trotsky.
I only post people whom I have spent some time investigating and whom I believe to have reasonably high likelihood of being INFJ.
 
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Dali was not enfj... What is your reasoning there?
The thing that catches attention first about Dali is his extreme extroversion - if you read through his writing his thinking is very surface-based - and well as excessive energy, ambition, and drive illustrated for example by these quotes "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí — and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?" "At seven I wanted to be Napoleon." -Dali) as well as highly unstable psyche given to extremes. This is common for EJ types. This is in combination with interest in the course of development of society to which by all accounts he responded very sensitively to (dominant Fe) the point that some of his works were even called "prophetic" ("Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation." - Dali). And so on and so forth. If you read through the man's biography and quotes it becomes very clear that he was an extraverted Fe-type.
 
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Pretty sure Feynman was an ENTP.

And anyone want to discuss the Fiona Apple thing a little further? I'm tossing back and forth between INFJ and INFP, but I'm thinking INFP. I feel she's a little more inwardly directed than the average INFJ, but I could be wrong. Anyone else have any opinions on this?
 
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While Tori Amos and Fiona Apple may be Enneagram 4's and have both been victims of rape, I would not necessarily classify them as INFJs. Also, "Across the Universe" was a BEATLES creation.
 
Pretty sure Feynman was an ENTP.
Is it because Feynman was a theoretical physicist and all scientists have to be NTs, preferably ENTP or INTJ? :p

Also, "Across the Universe" was a BEATLES creation.
I was not referring to the song lyrics but to the video composition and her acting. Neither of these was a Beatles creation.
 
Okay, just checkin'. :)
 
[MENTION=5673]Lexika[/MENTION] Chopin was an INFJ?? You have just made my life! Any other classic musicians of the INFJ type? And p.s. is it true that Osama bin Laden was an INFJ? That makes me weep. OH, and what is your opinion on Jesus being an INFJ? I've heard that statement made, but no good evidence was provided.
 
[MENTION=5673]Lexika[/MENTION] Chopin was an INFJ?? You have just made my life! Any other classic musicians of the INFJ type? And p.s. is it true that Osama bin Laden was an INFJ? That makes me weep. OH, and what is your opinion on Jesus being an INFJ? I've heard that statement made, but no good evidence was provided.
Chopin is very often typed as one of the Fe types. Another likely INFJ was Mozart. If you want to contrast them with a Ne composer, see how they compare to Tchaikovsky.

I think it's true that OBL was an INFJ. At least by visual identification he fits the bill. Ethical subtype.

I don't believe in existence of Jesus as an actual historical figure. Even if he existed, I think he would most likely be INFP. INFJs usually aren't as forgiving against the trespasses made against them as he was. INFJ's mission is more that of a fighter, a militant moralist (same as for ISFPs) rather than a forgiving moralist who attempts to teach by personal example. But an intuitive type such as INFP with dominant introverted feeling could do such mission. In socionics the Fi-Ne type is even called "the humanist".
 
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INFJs for the most part seem to be more comfortable roles of being a power behind the throne rather than power on the throne. The later kind of roles often go to EJ types, ENFJs and ENTJs, as well as ESTJs and ESFJs many of whom occupy managerial positions. Introverts just don't have that kind of energy needed to pull through a world war. So I consider him ENFJ.
This is incorrect in my opinion. Introverts have the same amount of energy as extroverts at least. The difference is that introverts have their energy turned inward, thinking and pondering and contemplating, while extroverts have their energy turned outward, which is doing all kind of stuffs.
This, the nature of energy given to each type, DOES NOT mean that one kind of energy can not be changed to the opposite pole. In fact, an ideal energy would be a "balanced energy", whereas one would have both kinds of energy and/or would skillfuly swith between the two of them.
Another think which I don't agree with in your post is that INFJs are not comfortable "on the throne". Yes, naturally that might be true, but only to some extend. Allow me to explain:
It is said that ENFJs are natural leaders, which is true. But why are they natural leaders? Because they usually hold a group closely tied due to their flexible personality. But this works only and only from a purely sociological point. Their natural "domain" is people. This is to say the most fundamental value of them are people. They are leaders because they can "blend and bend" with almost any people. The question is this: This works for all areas? I think the answer is clearly not. An ENFJ is not naturally suited to drive a group of marines soldiers for example, or a group of scientists, or a group of artists. Yes' they have people skills, but in those areas and many others they need something else.

Now, with regard to INFJs, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Meaning. Or values. They are "meaning givers", or "meaning finders". This is also appying to INFPs and INTJs also. So, in the area of meaning, on the battle of ideas, INFJs are natural leaders. They'll "create" an idea, and then will fight for it, because they ussualy believe in their ideas. Think at Martin Luther King. He was an INFJ, a leader, with an ideal - "I have a dream" - he was full of energy for this ideal, outwardly and inwardly.
Given this, I think Hittler was possibly an INFJ. We don't like it, but eventually we must accept it.
 
Liudmila Putina - INFJ of the Ni subtype (Putin is ISTP by some estimates)

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I don't know everyone that was listed, but not all of these people are INFJ. INFJs are rare and they aren't due for success, more than any other type. Thus, famous INFJs is probably a much smaller list, while famous ESTJs, for example, will be very large.

Kurt Cobain & Edgar Allen Poe, for example, I believe are INFP.

Another dude said Thomas Jefferson?? More like INTP
 
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Was he really an INFJ??

I believe he was. He is a prime example of an INFJ whose ideals led him to the attempted eradication of a people. I believe he truly believed he was doing the best thing for the world. Of course, I also believe he was highly narcissistic and couldn't separate his ideals for his own self. It saddens me that he couldn't overcome his own traumas and use his abilities to make the world a better place (obviously had potential to lead people). Every person (including INFJ's) have an animalistic nature that is juxtaposed. They want to love and want to hate and hurt at the same time. Most INFJ's don't want to accept this nature in their self and that's what leads to destructive behaviors for them and those around them. He's a good example of what we (INFJ's) should be aware of if our abilities are to be honed and used in a positive way for the world and ourselves.
 
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Why do you think Kate Beckinsale is an INFJ? To anyone who knows about her, I'm interested in hearing your views.
 
Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosopher
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Laura Nyro, songwriter
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Matthew Barney, sculptor/artist
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Ken Wilber, author
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Marriane Williamson, author/former presidential candidate
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