The INTJ Personality Type

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.

INTJ = Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking Judger

Nickname of INTJ: “The Free-Thinker or Strategist or Mastermind”

Mastermind Hat hat

Main Qualites of the INTJ

  • Skeptical
  • Independent
  • Demanding
  • Original
  • Goal-Oriented
  • Long-Term Thinking

Short List of  Good INTJ Careers: (click here for The Top 100 INTJ Careers and here for the Myers Briggs Career Personality Tests)

  • Strategic Planner
  • Treasurer
  • Analyst
  • Systems or Network or Database Administrator
  • Software Developer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Editor

FAMOUS INTJs & Fictional INTJs

  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Lance Armstrong
  • Arthur Ashe, tennis champion
  • Augustus Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus)
  • Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers)
  • William J. Bennett, “drug czar”
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Ironsides)
  • Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane) (Fletch)
  • Katie Couric
  • Phil Donahue
  • Michael Dukakis, governor of Mass., 1988 U.S. Dem. pres. candidate
  • Richard Gere (Pretty Woman)
  • Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor
  • Greg Gumbel, television sportscaster
  • Hannibal, Carthaginian military leader
  • Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues)
  • Angela Lansbury (Murder, She Wrote)
  • Orel Leonard Hershiser, IV
  • Peter Jennings
  • Charles Everett Koop
  • Ivan Lendl
  • C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
  • Joan Lunden
  • Edwin Moses, U.S. olympian (hurdles)
  • Martina Navratilova
  • Michelle Obama
  • General Colin Powell, US Secretary of State
  • Charles Rangel, U. S. Representative, D-N.Y.
  • Pernell Roberts (Bonanza)
  • Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
  • Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh), mystery writer (Brat Farrar)
  • U.S. Presidents:  Chester A. Arthur,   Calvin Coolidge,   Thomas Jefferson,   John F. Kennedy,   James K. Polk,
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Cassius (Julius Caesar)
  • Mr. Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Gandalf the Grey (J. R. R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth books)
  • Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
  • Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis
  • Ensign Ro (Star Trek–the Next Generation)
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Hamlet)
  • George Smiley, John le Carre’s master spy
  • Clarice Starling (Silence of the Lambs)
  • Stevie Griffin- Family Guy
  • Tom Hagen- Godfather
  • Ernst Stavro Blofield- james Bond
  • James Hartfield
  • Jerry O’Connell
  • Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Maria Bello
  • George Lucas
  • Jill Hennessy
  • Carrie-Ann Moss

These Web site were helpful for this article:

KnowYourType, TypeLogic, MyPersonality and SimilarMinds

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If you are enjoying the 16 Myers-Briggs Personality Types, you may also enjoy The 9 Enneagram Personality Types.

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  • Jessie
    Michelle Obama INTJ? She seems extraverted to me...
  • mtRoamer
    INTJ's aren't "antisocial" we just work better by ourselves because other people can't follow us down and through all the rabbit holes we cruise back and forth in. but when it comes down to it we are fully capable of orating our plans and ideas..
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