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.
INFP = Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling Perceiver
Nickname of INFP: “The Dreamer or Healer”
Main Qualites of INFPs:
- Curious
- Malluable
- Values-oriented
- Ideas-Oriented
- Helpful
Good INFP Careers (Click here for Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests):
Healers or People Development
- Psychologist or Psychiatrist
- Massage Therapist or Physical Therapist
- Trainer
- Counselors
- Nutritionist or Holistic Health Practitioner or Nurse
- Speech Pathologist
- Social Worker or Social Scientist
- Mediator
- Alternative Medicine Practioner
- Human Resources
- Employee Development Specialist
Creative Arts
- Artist
- Writers
- Actor
- Web or Graphic Designer
- Art Director
- Musician
- Photographer
- Filmmaker
- Fashion Designer
- Video Editor
- Architecht
- Scientist
- Poet
Knowledge & Research
- Teacher/Professor or Lecturer
- Journalist or Editor
- Librarian
- Educational Consultant
- Interpreter or Translater
- Book Reviewer
- Consultant
- Project Manager
Clergy / Religious Workers
- Missionary
- Minister or Priest
And here’s a list of famous INFPs:
- Homer
- Princess Diana
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- John F. Kennedy, Jr.
- William Shakespeare
- Virgil
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- St. John, the beloved disciple
- St. Luke; physician, disciple, author
- George Orwell, Author & Journalist
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Evangeline)
- Helen Keller, deaf and blind author
- Fred “Mister” Rogers
- Dick Clark (American Bandstand)
- Donna Reed, actor (It’s a Wonderful Life)
- Neil Diamond, vocalist
- Tom Brokaw, news anchor
- James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small)
- Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
- James Taylor, Singer
- Julia Roberts, actor (Conspiracy Theory, Pretty Woman)
- Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap)
- Terri Gross (PBS’s “Fresh Air”)
- Amy Tan (author of The Joy-Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife)
- Lisa Kudrow (”Phoebe” of Friends)
- Fred Savage (”The Wonder Years”)
- Isabelle Briggs-Myers
- Bastian (The Neverending Story)
…and fictional INFPs:
- Winnie the Pooh
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
- E.T.: the ExtraTerrestrial
- Anne (Anne of Green Gables)
- Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
- Sleeping Beauty, Disney Princess
- Deanna Troi (Star Trek – The Next Generation)
- Wesley Crusher (Star Trek – The Next Generation)
- Doctor Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)
- Doug Funny, Doug cartoons
- Tommy, Rug Rats cartoons
- Rocko, Rocko’s Modern Life cartoons
- Jean Grey, X Men
These Web site were helpful for this article:
KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds
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