Famous Intps

[Joz_helloworld]

I have seen Karl Marx credited as in INTP. Love to know what others think.

 

[zerocrossing]

I think that J.R.R. Tolkien - despite being pegged INFP on the basis of his final product - is INTP.

The evidence:

The man was a Philology professor. His linguistic scholarship was highly technical and authoritative. It is still authoritative today.

His creative process was seemingly an NT process. He was a language geek who invented a couple of a languages (Quenya and Sindarin). Then he needed a world where those languages could live, so he built a world. THEN he told stories to inhabit that world.

The final product looks like it could be the work of an INFP, but the foundation for that product is not (to my mind, at least) an NF foundation. It seems like a highly NT foundation, and more specifically an INTP/Architect foundation.

Thoughts?

 

[Tod]

I want to suggest someone I've never seen on an INTP list: George Carlin.

He was proud to be a soloist, not a team player. Didn't hang out with other comedians. Despaired of humanity, any kind of group, but treasured individuals. Interested in everything.

So many of my favorite people are on this list! Thomas Jefferson, Einstein, Calvin and Hobbes.

 

[Tungsten]

L's character in Death Note anime seems to be an INTP. And so does N.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

I think that J.R.R. Tolkien - despite being pegged INFP on the basis of his final product - is INTP.

The evidence:

The man was a Philology professor. His linguistic scholarship was highly technical and authoritative. It is still authoritative today.

His creative process was seemingly an NT process. He was a language geek who invented a couple of a languages (Quenya and Sindarin). Then he needed a world where those languages could live, so he built a world. THEN he told stories to inhabit that world.

The final product looks like it could be the work of an INFP, but the foundation for that product is not (to my mind, at least) an NF foundation. It seems like a highly NT foundation, and more specifically an INTP/Architect foundation.

Thoughts?

Yeah he was definitely an INTP. The planning and infrastructure he put into the world of Middle-Earth is ridiculous. The Silmarilion and the Red Book stories (The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) aren't even all of his Middle-Earth related things. Whatachamp.

 

[humblecheesecake]

I agree, 'L' is the epitome of INTP.

How about Demetri Martin? Mitch Hedberg? Steven Wright?

 

[Jordan~]

I'm also a language geek, may have aspirations to write fantasy and would want to write full languages for them, but an INFP nonetheless. I think Tolkien could easily have been an INFP and done what he did - we do still think, you know. :P Seems to me like it was a labour of love - he made the languages, started thinking about who would speak them, and fell in love with the world he conceived of for them to inhabit.
Also, the reason for writing the books - they were an effort, apparently, to imagine a folkloric tradition for England such as exists in the Norse world and Finland - could be an NF or NT thing.