The Official Merkw Typemporium

[MerkW]

The official Merkw list of famous individuals listed by type. These will not necessarily correspond with types listed on websites. These are based solely off my own typing:

NF:

INFJ
Goethe - poet
Carl Gustav Jung - psychologist
Martin Van Buren - American President
Ralph Nader - Activist, attorney, Green Party member
Abraham Lincoln - American President
Mohandas Gandhi - Rights activist, lawyer
Emily Bronte - writer
Nathan - prophet
Ludwig Wittgenstein - philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher
Agatha Christie - mystery novelist
Samuel Johnson - essayist, poet, lexicographer, biographer

ENFP
Andy Kaufman - entertainer
Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) - writer, cartoonist
Felix Mendelssohn - conductor, composer
Franz Joseph Haydn - composer
Thomas Huxley - evolutionary biologist
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) - writer
Martin Short - comedian
Upton Sinclair - author, journalist
Charles Dickens - writer
Joseph Campbell - writer, orator
Robin Williams - actor

ENFJ
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - minister, civil rights activist
Oprah Winfrey - show host
Mikhail Gorbachev - last Soviet premier
Ronald Reagan - American President
Michael Jackson - performer
Saddam Hussein - dictator ) )
Adolf Hitler - dictator yes: )
Pol Pot - dictator D )
Muammar al-Qaddafi - dictator rofl1
Salvador Dali - artist
Freddie Mercury - performer
Paul Hewson (Bono) - performer
Steve Jobs - entrepreneur
John Paul II - pope
Katharine Hepburn - actress
Danny Elfman - film score composer

INFP
Audrey Hepburn - actress
George Orwell - author, journalist
Helen Keller - deaf/blind author, activist, lecturer
Isabel Myers - psychological theorist
J. R. R. Tolkien - writer (Lord of the Rings), linguist
John F. Kennedy, Jr. - lawyer, journalist, publisher
Peter Jackson - filmmaker
Tim Burton -filmmaker
Fyodor Dostoevsky - humanist, writer, psychologist
Hans Christian Andersen - children's author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - writer/philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard - philosopher
Stephen King - author
Homer - ancient Greek storyteller
Virgil - ancient Roman poet
William Shakespeare - English poet and playwright
Clara Schumann - piano player, composer
David Helfgott - musician
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - composer
Neil Diamond - musician

 

[JustDave]

And???

 

[JustDave]

There is no way Stephen King is an INFP. He is the quintessential enneagram type 5, and 5 and INFP just don't jive so well.

What if he were a 4w5?

 

[MerkW]

The rest shall be coming soon.

 

[JustDave]

May I make a nomination? If so, please add George Carlin to your ENTPs list. My reason for this nomination is a friend of mine took a real MBTI type test administered by a professional and he is a "verified" ENTP. His personality appears to be very similar to George Carlin's. Thus Carlin must be an ENTP.

 

[MerkW]

ST:

ISTJ
Catherine Zeta-Jones - actress
Sean Connery - actor
Theodore Roosevelt - American President
Joseph Stalin - dictator
Andrew Johnson - American President
George H. W. Bush - American President
Harry Truman - American President
Herbert Hoover - American President
Warren Buffet - investor, businessman
Queen Victoria - British monarch
James K. Polk - American president
J.D. Rockefeller - entrepreneur
Darth Vader

ESTP
Napoleon Bonaparte - French general and emperor
Peter the Great - Russian Tsar
Vladimir Lenin - revolutionary
Winston Churchill - British prime minister
Marlon Brando - actor
Donald Trump - YOU ARE FIRED.
Boris Yeltsin - Russian president
Bruce Willis - actor
Chuck Norris - (no comment)
Ernest Hemingway - novelist
Madonna - singer
Michael J. Fox - actor
George C. Patton - general

ESTJ
Thomas Edison - inventor, marketer
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Governor of California, actor
Ann Coulter - author, columnist, political commentator
George W. Bush - current President
George Washington - First President of the USA
Lyndon B. Johnson - American President
Johannes Brahms - composer
Rev. Billy Graham - evangelist, writer
Robert A. Taft - Governor of Ohio
William Henry Harrison - American President

ISTP
Frank Zappa - guitarist
Zachary Taylor - American President
Alan Turing - mathematician
Bruce Lee - martial artist, actor
Rowan Atkinson - actor
Tiger Woods - golf player
Robin Cook - British politician
Tom Cruise - actor
Woody Allen - comedian
Leonardo DaVinci - artist, inventor, polymath

 

[Athenian200]

May I make a nomination? If so, please add George Carlin to your ENTPs list. My reason for this nomination is a friend of mine took a real MBTI type test administered by a professional and he is a "verified" ENTP. His personality appears to be very similar to George Carlin's. Thus Carlin must be an ENTP.

That's quite a broad leap. A personality can be shaped by environment. Exhibiting similar traits is superficial at best.

Anyway, I think this is supposed Merkw's list based on his opinion, and if he takes your suggestion, then it would kind of be a joint list rather than his opinion.

 

[JustDave]

That's quite a broad leap. A personality can be shaped by environment. Exhibiting similar traits is superficial at best.

Anyway, I think this is supposed Merkw's list based on his opinion, and if he takes your suggestion, then it would kind of be a joint list rather than his opinion.

You are correct but I am only trying to nudge him into the right direction (mine).

 

[MerkW]

SF:

ISFJ
Mother Teresa - Nobel Peace prize winner
Nicholas II - Russian Tsar
Jimmy Stewart - actor
Robert E. Lee - Confederate Army Officer
(Bloody) Mary - Queen of England
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - poet
Richard Nixon - American President
Jimmy Carter - American President

ESFP
Bill Clinton - American President, politician
Elvis Presley - singer/musician, actor
Marilyn Monroe - actor, singer, model
Sylvester Stallone - actor
Scarlett Johansson - actress

ESFJ
Bill Cosby - comedian
John Connally - politician
Mary Tyler Moore - actress, comedian
Nancy Kerrigan - Olympic figure skater
Sally Field - actress
Sally Struthers - actress
William McKinley - American President

ISFP
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - First Lady
John Travolta - actor
Marie Antoinette - Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France
Millard Fillmore - American President
Paul Gauguin - artist
Steven Spielberg - filmmaker
Ulysses S. Grant - American President, Union general
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - composer
George Lucas - director
John Candy - actor
Johnny Depp - actor
Vincent Van Gough - artist
Frederic Chopin - composer
Antonio Vivaldi - composer

 

[heart]

And???

And the gauntlet is thrown down to those who disagree with his typing of these individuals.

 

[heart]

Soren Kierkegaard - philosopher INFP

Thank you for getting that one right!

 

[Camassia]

I may be going against the tide here, but I think Darth Vader is an ISTP. Anakin Skywalker is a nearly archetypal ISTP -- loves action, genius with machines and gadgets, insubordinate to authority etc. He becomes more self-disciplined as Vader, but I think he's still the same underneath. What makes him a scary villain is that he uses power at whim rather than by rules or even good sense (did he really need to strangle all those senior officers?). And he obviously loves charging into battle, while the Emperor sits back and strategizes.

On a completely different subject, I always thought Bono was an ENFP, because he has a wild streak and his performance style is very freewheeling and improvisational. I could buy ENFJ though, since he does seem really committed to things he cares about.

 

[quietgirl]

I always thought of Gandhi as an INFP. He seemed to be focused more on "being" whereas an INFJ is more focused on what's next. Then again, this could've been a result of his spirituality so I'm not entirely sure.

 

[JustDave]

I always thought of Gandhi as an INFP. He seemed to be focused more on "being" whereas an INFJ is more focused on what's next. Then again, this could've been a result of his spirituality so I'm not entirely sure.

To my knowledge the consesus on Ghandi's type is split. Some believe he was an INFJ, others and INFP. So your assement might be correct.

 

[heart]

What is your opinion on William Blake? INFJ or INFP?

Nathaniel Hawthorne? INFJ?

Poe INFJ? or INFP?

I say Novalis INFP.

 

[heart]

I always thought of Gandhi as an INFP. He seemed to be focused more on "being" whereas an INFJ is more focused on what's next. Then again, this could've been a result of his spirituality so I'm not entirely sure.

I always think INFP would have focused more on their personal development and then put a focus on improving the lives of those closest to them, but INFJ would want to move things outwards to the general population more, as Gandhi did.

 

[JustDave]

What is your opinion on William Blake? INFJ or INFP?

Nathaniel Hawthorne? INFJ?

Poe INFJ? or INFP?

I say Novalis INFP.

My opinion. I am only asking because mine was the last post before yours and would rather not be accused of "stealing someone's thunder". If so then:

- Blake might have been and INFJ. This is soley based on the fact that he authored Dante's Inferno. Those that promote religion tend to be NFJ thus he, IMO, was probaly an INFJ.

- Hawthorne's type I do not know. I couldn't even venture a guess.

- Poe was definitely some sort of INxP. He was a major alcoholic. Alcholism seems to be more common among Rationals then the other type, but I can't prove it. So perhaps he was an INTP.

- I'm afraid I don't know who Novalis is.

 

[Jae Rae]

Hi Heart, I read about this on the INFJ/INFP (A Closer Look) site earlier today. According to them, INFJs are invested in certain individuals and seek to help them develop, whereas INFPs try to control the environment and try to ensure the atmosphere is harmonious and conducive to growth of all individuals. So Gandhi sounds more like an INFP.

Jae Rae

 

[JustDave]

Hi Heart, I read about this on the INFJ/INFP (A Closer Look) site earlier today. According to them, INFJs are invested in certain individuals and seek to help them develop, whereas INFPs try to control the environment and try to ensure the atmosphere is harmonious and conducive to growth of all individuals. So Gandhi sounds more like an INFP.

Jae Rae

That's funny, I thought it was the exact opposite. If you get a chance please post a link to the site you mentioned. I'd like to visit it.

 

[Jae Rae]

OK, here's the link:

INFJ or INFP? a closer look


Check near the bottom of the article.

Jae Rae