Note: If you want to read about all personality types, please go to The 16 Personality Types. If you want to learn your personality type, please go to take the Personality Type Test or one of these more sophisticated Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests.
ENFP = Extroverted, Intuitive Feeling Perceiver
Nickname of ENFP: “The Visionary” or “Inspirer”
Main Qualites of ENFP:
- Improvisational
- Optimistic
- Insecure
- Supportive
- Quick-Thining
- Imaginative
Good ENFP Careers:
Business & Politics
- Entrepreneur
- Inventor
- Strategic Planner
- Restaurateur
- Recruiter
- Politician
- Diplomat
Computers
- Programmer
- Systems Analyst
- Engineer
- Computer Specialist
Knowledge & Research
- Consultant
- Teacher
- Scientist
- Journalist
- Television Reporter
- Trainer
Creative/Arts
- TV Producer
- Artist
- Actor
- Designer
- Writer
- Playwright
- Interior Decorator
- Documentary Filmaker
- Composer
- Cartoonist or Animation
Marketing & Advertising
- Publicist
- Creative Director
- Copywriter
Financial Services
- Accountant
- AuditorB
- Banker
- Economist
Healers & Other People-Persons
- Psychologist
- Counselor
- Human Resources
- Special Education Teacher
- Nurse
- Clergy
- Welfare Counselor
- Chiropractor
- Massage Therapist
Famous ENFPs
- Dave Thomas, owner of Wendy’s hamburger chain
- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Will Rogers
- Buster Keaton
- Mickey Rooney
- James Dobson (“Focus on the Family”)
- Andy Rooney
- Carol Burnett
- Paul Harvey
- Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched)
- Bill Cosby (Ghost Dad)
- Dom Delouise, actor
- Martin Short, actor-comedian
- Meg Ryan, actor (When Harry Met Sally)
- Robin Williams, actor, comedian (Dead Poet’s Society, Mrs. Doubtfire)
- Sandra Bullock, actor (Speed, While You Were Sleeping)
- Robert Downey (Heart and Souls)
- Alicia Silverstone (Clueless)
- Sinbad
- Andy Kaufman
- Regis Philbin
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Theodor “Dr.” Seuss Geisel (The Cat in the Hat)
- Lewis Grizzard, newspaper columnist
- I. King Jordan, president of Gallaudet University
- Upton Sinclair
Fictional ENFPs
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Dr. Doug Ross (ER)
- Balkie (Perfect Strangers)
- Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
- Kitty Pryde, X Men
- Steve Irkle
These Web site were helpful for this article:
KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds
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