In the following article, we will get in-depth information about one of Myers-Briggs’ Personality Test personalities. The personality explored in the article is termed ‘INTJ’. INTJ is an acronym for Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging aspects of the personality.
A Brief About INTJ Personality
People who have an INTJ personality are usually labelled as ‘The Masterminds’ because INTJs are the problem-solvers, and they have a highly functioning analytical mind. These qualities make INTJ people always eager to solve the problems around them with a pinch of creativity. INTJ people are also known as ‘Architect’ because they like to build an empire of their accurate and analytical ideas to solve problems.
People who have an INTJ personality are very logical in their way of thinking and acting processes. On the other hand, other people might perceive an INTJ as a cold or unsympathetic person, as they put logic over emotions. Another negative perception of INTJ is that they rarely have the patience to hear and react because they are always in a hurry to put their point of view forward and explain themselves.
Apart from the strong and a few of the weak areas, an INTJ is a person who is always on their toes to help the world and be an influence. INTJs have a never-ending thirst for knowledge, and whenever they can, they always try to pass the knowledge to other people. This is one of the reasons why many political leaders and celebrities have INTJ personality.
INTJ People
The INTJs comprise of a mere 2% of the people in the world. Many of these famous people who have an INTJ personality are Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk, Michelle Obama, Friedrich Nietzsche, John F. Kennedy, Jay Z, and many more. In this article, we will get to know more about INTJ people, and how their personality is embodied in their field of work. For the ease of readers, the article is sub-categorized as per the field of professional INTJ people.
A list of INTJ people
Politicians
At least 7 of the US presidents have an INTJ personality. The sheer dedication to working towards the betterment of the people and the country has been a fundamental priority of an INTJ politician. Few of such INTJ politicians and their key personality element of being an INTJ is provided as follows.
John F. Kennedy
Being an INTJ, John F. Kennedy had reached the highest position in US politics. He is often perceived as an optimist, a problem-solver, and a ‘fixer’ of issues – a few of the significant INTJ personality dimensions.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was considered the founding father who served as the third president of the United States. Thomas Jefferson was a politician and an architect, a lawyer, and a diplomat. The multitude of skills in various professions shows the thirst for knowledge he had as an INTJ. As a prominent feature of an INTJ, Jefferson was also fond of books and always tried to hustle and serve the people at the very best.
Colin Powell
As a former secretary of the State and retired four-star general of the US Army, Colin Powell is considered one of the most sorted and thought-induced political figures in world history. From an army background, Powell had a strictness in the behavior and habit of adhering to the rules, which is also an inevitable INTJ personality trait.
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is a Russian politician and a former intelligence officer who has been serving the people of Russia since the year 2012. Putin has a very off-beat personality as a political leader, as opposed to many former US presidents.
Putin is highly ambitious and an aesthete who fully trusts his taste and prefers moderation and harmony in private life and professional. Putin often comes out as a manipulator and inclined towards skepticism, just like an INTJ. He doesn’t now show his emotions in public much and is a bit moody compared to other political idols.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a politician, a diplomat, and a writer as well. Hillary has a flare of clear communication, which is a key to succeeding as a political leader. Hillary is often considered an INTJ, as we can see in her interviews. Hillary is also a visionary and likes to see the big picture, just like the INTJ personality’s intuitive factor.
Businessmen/ Entrepreneurs
Some many inventors and entrepreneurs belong to the INTJ personality type. Some of the most famous and successful businessmen with an INTJ personality are listed below.
Mark Zuckerberg
A college dropout student who made it big in social media and changed how we see the world through the internet is Mark Zuckerberg – a quiet, industrious, creative, and business-savvy individual. Not only is Mark a social media magnate, but also a humble and hardworking person who aspires to change the world. Mark is a true INTJ type, as he said in one of the interviews, “I think that the next five years are going to be characterized by widespread acknowledgement by [others] … that [my way] is the way that stuff should be and will be better”.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors and co-founder of PayPal. If there’s one word to describe Elon Musk, that is ‘reinventing’. Like an INTJ, Elon Musk loves to create solutions for real-world problems, not by preaching but by getting the things done. Elon’s brother Kimbal Musk says about him: “Elon’s psyche is tied up in the idea of changing the world”.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is an American business mogul and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates is a well-known INTJ with an assertive personality type. He is an archetypal introverted genius who thrives on complexity, as mentioned by his business partner and wife, Melinda Gates.
Scientists
The INTJ scientists are a boon to society. With their extraordinarily creative and analytical minds, an INTJ scientist has given the world what they truly need – an innovation with practicality and precision. Some of the famous INTJ scientists are listed below.
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author. He is widely famous for being the most influential scientist of all time, as he is the vital figure of the scientific revolution. Newton was an introvert who was always in his world and gazed upon the mysteries of the universe. As an INTJ, he had been curious about the world’s deep fundamental secrets and tried to give it an expression of words everyone could understand and relate to. He was a thinker, a rebel, and a revolutionist.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous INTJ scientists. As an INTJ, Hawking tends to be an ambitious and confident individual. Stephen Hawking was a problem solver whose goal was to understand the universe altogether. Hawking had a reputation for zoning out of the physical world while he used to solve the problem, very INTJ-like.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was an engineer and an inventor. He is the father of the current electricity supply system in the world. He is an INTJ, as his dominant personality traits are visionary, creativity, and shyness.
Philosophers
Karl Marx
Karl Marx was a German philosopher and an economist. He was also a historian and a sociologist. Marx’s INTJ personality reflects in his writing style. His articles and books on Economics has a sarcastic tone, accompanied by a good amount of assertiveness and strong will to change the world system. Marx’s ideas were backed by logic and had originality, just like an INTJ thinker.
Fredrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was a philosopher and a cultural critic. As a pioneer in the Education field, he had been a very well-known figure for profoundly influencing modern intellectualism. Carl Jung, a famous psychologist, and father of the MBTI test identifies Nietzsche as an INTJ due to his sheer determination and devotion to his work, rationality, and clarity with the art of putting information into words.
Entertainment Field
The entertainment field usually has fewer INTJs than other fields, as the INTJs has the typical personality traits of being a shy and introverted individual. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any INTJ people in the entertainment field. A few of the most influential INTJs in the entertainment field are mentioned below.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is one of the most renowned film directors and screenwriters. He has a knack for writing the most thought-provoking and intriguing movie scripts. His movies have both an appeal for entertainment and a moral embodiment as well. Nolan’s INTJ personality is seen everywhere in his movies, from his complex characters to the plot’s unexpectedness. Some of the most famous movies by Nolan consist of Inception, Batman Trilogy, Interstellar, etc.
James Cameron
James Cameron is also a very famous film director. His most dominant INTJ trait is creativity and is clearly seen in the depiction of his movies. From a sombre movie like Titanic to a visual treat like Avatar, Cameron has shown his wide range of imagination and creativity.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, businessman, retired bodybuilder, and a former politician. He is one of the most famous INTJ celebrities of popular culture, as he identifies himself as a cautious and calculative person. As a former bodybuilder, he is extremely disciplined and a driven individual, as his friends and family told in the documentary ‘Pumping Iron’. These traits symbolize him as an INTJ.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven, known as Beethoven, was a German composer and pianist. He is famous for his music and stage awareness. He is a very headstrong and creative composer of all time. Just as the two different sides of an INTJ, Beethoven had plenty of admirers but also many critics as well, but he did not bother about what the world had to say about him – a classic INTJ isn’t he!?
Jane Austen
Jane Austin, the flag bearer of women representation in novels, is also an INTJ. Jane Austen’s personality type being INTJ, the readers of her novel can easily connect with the novels’ primary character. Jane was a futuristic and logical novelist, and many of her characters in various novels are INTJ.
Athletes
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong is a professional road racing cyclist. He is known for winning the Tour De France competition consecutively seven times. He has a scientific and strategic outlook for life, just like an INTJ personality dominant. In many of his interviews, it is evident that he is a no-nonsense person and likes to be very up-to-date and to the point with his answers.
Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer is a very popular chess champion; needless to say; he is an INTJ. Just like the game of chess, Bobby has always been a very sharp and observant individual. One of his quotes, “Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others,” shows his true INTJ side. Unusually for an INTJ, Bobby has a few antisocial traits. He had an undying spirit and a habit of never compromising in his life.
Fictional Characters
The popular culture of the world has so many characters which the people associate with strongly and closely. The characters in any movie or a sitcom are written by a writer and might not completely be categorized into one personality type. But all these characters have one personality trait dominant over than other. Considering that, below given is the list of fictional characters who are INTJ personality type.
Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne, famously known as Batman, is one of the aptest INTJ characters in the fictional world. He is a visionary and a determined individual who is extremely proactive and neat-picky. The character of Bruce Wayne’s movie adaption is written and directed by Christopher Nolan, another fellow INTJ. As a typical INTJ, Bruce struggles hard to break any rules to save people. Bruce does precisely what he feels is correct; he also doesn’t get overwhelmed by the setbacks. He always stays aligned with what he believes is right. Like Batman, INTJs also like to spend time in the background observing, connecting the dots, and making plans before they take any action.
Petyr Baelish
Petyr Baelish is a character from the popular TV show Game of Thrones. Baelish’s character is put in a gray area. He is logical and systematic like an INTJ but also a liar and master manipulator to get his benefits from the rivals. Baelish’s character displays the extreme negative side of an INTJ, where they are pushed to the darkness. He is a long-term and patient thinker and takes decisions in the same fashion, but when put in danger, he forgets who has stood by him and gets irrational and impulsive.
Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty are the characters from the detective show Sherlock Holmes. Both these characters are protagonist and antagonist, respectively. Surprisingly, both two characters are INTJ in nature with a different aspect of the dominant personality. While Sherlock is wired for problem-solving and objective in nature, who is always in pursuit of pattern and connections, Moriarty is rather a mastermind with the singular goal to bring Sherlock down. Sherlock is more of a thinker, an extraordinary genius with a good heart underneath the sarcasm. Moriarty, on the other hand, is an evil genius who uses resources and networks to defeat his enemy without thinking much.
V
V’s character from the movie V for Vendetta is a mirror of an exhausted and rebellious INTJ. A great rule follower, a leader, a rebel, a systematic thinker, and a doer – these are the words to describe the character V, same as a typical INTJ! V has a powerful INTJ personality, with unshakable principles and moral code to serve the people.
Lisbeth Salander
There are not many women fictional characters who are INTJ, but Lisabeth Salander is one such firm and complex woman character from the movie ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.’ The movie’s fans and the characters relate to Lisabeth being an INTJ because she is blunt, factual, intelligent, and very straightforward while conversing. Lisabeth also thinks and takes decisions in a very INTJ way – logically sound and always accurate!
Amy Dunne
Like Petyr Baelish’s character, Amy Dunne is one of the best female versions of dark INTJ fictional characters. Amy likes to live in her world, by her own rules and regulations and having the upper hand in any situation. When the situations didn’t go to her favour, she decided to go to the extremes, and that trait of hers shows how vicious an INTJ can get – if not met their goals. She predicts her actions and future and carefully observes and plans her husband’s actions as well.
Doctor Strange
The character of Doctor Strange is written in the most INTJ way possible. He is shown as a visionary with the thirst for knowledge and absorbing information from the universe. Like an INTJ, Doctor Strange is intensely private, enabling him to avoid giving up secrets that could leave the world less secure. Doctor Strange loves to give commands, re-structures, re-organize things around him, and create a strategy to deal with the ever-changing events.
Light Yagami
Light Yagami is a character from a highly critically acclaimed anime series Death Note. He is often identified as an INTJ by the show’s fans as his dominant personality traits are – shy, likes to be alone, rule maker, closed-off, logical, guarded, and a risk-taker. Light Yagami’s character is shown as both an INTJ extremes, as a rule lover and obedient student and a compulsive liar and a mass murderer, when his ego is not satisfied.
INTJ people are some of the most intelligent and logical people who love to do better for the people and get energized by solving puzzles! The article, as mentioned above, dives deep into the personality of various famous people and celebrities who have an INTJ personality. The article mentions the list of people who can closely associate with an INTJ personality as per their overall behavior and dominant personality trait.
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