Psychologists
500 people
Medieval 5
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'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi
10th century Persian physician and psychologist
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Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
Persian scholar and physician
Nicole Oresme
14th century French philosopher and bishop
The Buddha
Indian philosopher and the founder of Buddhism (623 or 563 BCE – 543 or 483 BCE)
Vitello
Polish-German scholar
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Carl Gustav Carus
German philosopher, physician, painter (1789–1869)
David Hartley
British philosopher
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German psychologist (1795–1878)
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
German psychologist & scholar (1798–1854)
Johann Friedrich Herbart
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline (1776-1841)
Johannes Nikolaus Tetens
German-Danish philosopher (1736-1807)
Maine de Biran
French philosopher (1766-1824)
Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist (1745–1826)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French academic
19th Century 172
A. S. Neill
Scottish educator and theorist (1883-1973)
Abraham Brill
American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948)
Abram Kardiner
American anthropologist (1891-1981)
Adolf Bastian
German anthropologist (1826–1905)
Alexander Bain
Scottish philosopher and educationalist (1818–1903)
Alexius Meinong
Austrian philosopher (1853–1920)
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
Alfred Binet
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
Alfred Kinsey
American sexologist (1894–1956)
Anathon Aall
Norwegian academic (1867–1943)
André Frédéric Cournand
French physiologist (1895–1988)
Anna Tumarkin
Swiss professor (1875-1951)
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Arnold Gesell
psychologist and pediatrician (1880–1961)
Arnold Zweig
German writer (1887-1968)
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August Dvorak
American scientist (1894–1975)
Benedict Friedlaender
German writer and sexuologist (1866–1908)
Boris Sidis
American psychiatrist (1867-1923)
C. Lloyd Morgan
British psychologist, originator of Morgan's canon (1852-1936)
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Carl Lange
Danish physician who made significants contributions to the fields of neurology,...
Carl Stumpf
German philosopher (1848–1936)
Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
Charles Richet
French physiologist and parapsychologist (1850-1935)
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Charles Spearman
English psychologist (1863-1945)
Charlotte Bühler
German American psychologist (1893–1974)
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Christian von Ehrenfels
Austrian philosopher (1859-1932)
Christine Ladd-Franklin
Psychologist and logician (1847-1930)
Clark L. Hull
American psychologist (1884–1952)
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
Cyril Burt
discredited English educational psychologist (1883–1971)
D. T. Suzuki
Japanese Buddhist scholar, Doctor of Letters (1870–1966)
Dale Carnegie
American writer and lecturer (1888-1955)
David Ferrier
British neurologist and psychologist (1843–1928)
David Wechsler
American psychologist and academic (1896–1981)
Dimitri Uznadze
Georgian philosopher
Dion Fortune
British occultist, ceremonial magician, and writer (1890-1946)
Dorothea Dix
American author and social reformer (1802–1887)
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Edgar Rubin
Danish psychologist (1886–1951)
Edmund Jacobson
American physiologist (1888–1983)
Eduard Spranger
German psychologist (1882-1963)
Edward Abramowski
Polish philosopher, libertarian socialist, anarchist, psychologist and ethician (1868-1918)
Edward B. Titchener
American psychologist (1867–1927)
Edward Bernays
American propaganda and marketing pioneer (1891-1995)
Edward C. Tolman
American psychologist (1886–1959)
Edward Thorndike
American psychologist
Eino Kaila
Finnish philosopher and psychologist (1890-1958)
Elizabeth Holloway Marston
psychologist (1893–1993)
Elton Mayo
Australian psychologist and sociologist
Emma Jung
psychoanalyst and writer (1882-1955)
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Erich Rothacker
German philosopher (1888–1965)
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Erich von Hornbostel
Austrian ethnomusicologist (1877–1935)
Ernst Kretschmer
German psychiatrist (1888–1964)
Ernst Meumann
German psychologist, educationist and philosopher (1862–1915)
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
German physiologist (1819–1892)
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Eugène Minkowski
French psychiatrist (1885–1972)
Ferdinand Karsch
German biologist and anthropologist (1853–1936)
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
Franz Brentano
German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of...
Frederic Bartlett
British psychologist and academic (1886–1969)
Frederic William Henry Myers
English poet and essayist (1843–1901)
Frederik van Eeden
Dutch writer and psychiatrist (1860-1932)
Fredric Wertham
German-American psychiatrist (1895-1981)
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Fritz Heider
German psychologist (1896-1988)
Fritz Perls
German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1893-1970)
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist and educator (1844–1924)
Georg Elias Müller
German experimental psychologist (1850–1934)
George Herbert Mead
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
George John Romanes
British evolutionary biologist (1848–1894)
George Williams
founder of the YMCA (1821–1905)
Georges Dumas
French psychologist (1866-1946)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Gordon Allport
American psychologist (1897–1967)
Gustav Fechner
German scientist (1801-1887)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
Hanns Sachs
Austrian psychoanalyst (1881-1947)
Hans Blüher
German journalist, writer and philosopher (1888-1955)
Harald Høffding
Danish philosopher and theologian (1843–1931)
Havelock Ellis
British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
Heinz Hartmann
American Austrian-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1894-1970)
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Helene Deutsch
American psychoanalyst (1884–1982)
Henri Piéron
French psychologist (1881–1964)
Henri Wallon
French psychologist, philosopher, pedagogist, and politician (1879–1962)
Henry Murray
American psychologist and academic (1893–1988)
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist (1888-1963)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
German psychologist (1850-1909)
Hermann Lotze
German philosopher (1817-1881)
Hermann Schwarz
German mathematician (1843-1921)
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
Heymann Steinthal
German linguist (1823–1899)
Hugo Münsterberg
German-American psychologist (1863-1916)
Isabel Briggs Myers
American writer (1897–1980)
Ivan Sechenov
Russian physiologist (1829–1905)
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J. P. Guilford
American psychologist (1897–1987)
Jacques Loeb
German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924)
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James Bedford
American psychologist (1893-1967)
James Mark Baldwin
American philosopher and psychologist (1861–1934)
James McKeen Cattell
American psychologist (1860–1944)
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist (1825–1893)
John B. Watson
American psychologist (1878
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
Joseph Banks Rhine
American parapsychologist (1895-1980)
Joseph Maréchal
Belgian Jesuit priest and philosopher (1878–1944)
Karl Abraham
German psychoanalyst (1877–1925)
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Karl Bühler
German psychologist (1879–1963)
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Karl Groos
German psychologist and philosopher (1861-1946)
Karl Jaspers
German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (1883–1969)
Karl Lashley
American psychologist (1890–1958)
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857–1936)
Katherine Cook Briggs
American psychologist
Kazimierz Twardowski
Polish philosopher, psychologist and logician (1866–1938)
Kurt Goldstein
German neurologist (1878-1965)
Kurt Huber
German folk song researcher, professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in...
Kurt Koffka
German psychologist (1886–1941)
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Kurt Schneider
German psychologist (1887–1967)
Kurt Zadek Lewin
German-American psychologist (1890-1947)
Lev Vygotsky
Soviet psychologist (1896-1934)
Lewis Fry Richardson
UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)
Lewis Terman
American educational psychologist and academic (1877–1956)
Lightner Witmer
American psychologist (1867-1957)
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
Louis Leon Thurstone
American psychologist & scholar (1887–1955)
Ludwig Klages
German psychologist and philosopher (1872–1956)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
Margaret Floy Washburn
American psychologist and scholar (1871-1939)
Maria Grzegorzewska
Polish educator (1888–1967)
Marie Bonaparte
French author and psychoanalyst (1882-1962)
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
Maurice Halbwachs
French sociologist (1877-1945), died in Buchenwald concentration camp
Max Dessoir
German philosopher (1867–1947)
Max Wertheimer
Austro-Hungarian psychologist (1880–1943)
Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni
Moroccan rebel (1871-1925)
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Nathaniel Kleitman
American sleep researcher (1895–1999)
Norbert Elias
German sociologist (1897–1990)
Norman Vincent Peale
American writer and minister (1898-1993)
Oskar Vogt
German neurologist, entomologist (1870-1959)
Oswald Külpe
German philosopher (1862-1915)
Otto Binswanger
Swiss psychiatrist (1852-1929)
Otto Rank
Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
Ovide Decroly
Belgian psychologist (1871–1932)
Pavel Blonsky
Ukrainian psychologist (1884–1941)
Petr Uspensky
Russian esotericist (1878–1947)
Pierre Janet
French psychologist (1859–1947)
Richard Huelsenbeck
German poet, dadaist and psychoanalyst (1892-1974)
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)
Robert S. Woodworth
American psychologist & scholar (1869–1962)
Robert Yerkes
American psychologist (1876–1956)
Roberto Assagioli
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
Ronald Fairbairn
Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1889–1964)
Rudolf Wagner
German scientist (1805–1864)
Semyon Frank
Russian philosopher (1877–1950)
Sergei Korsakoff
Russian psychiatrist (1854-1900)
Theodor Lipps
German philosopher (1851-1914)
Théodore Flournoy
Swiss psychologist and parapsychologist (1853–1920)
Théodore Simon
French intelligence researcher (1873–1961)
Théodule-Armand Ribot
French psychologist (1839-1916)
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian neurologist
Wilhelm Dilthey
German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher...
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
Wilhelm Wundt
German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)
William Halse Rivers Rivers
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist (1864-1922)
William Isaac Thomas
American sociologist (1863-1947)
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
William McDougall
British psychologist (1871–1938)
William Moulton Marston
American psychologist, lawyer, inventor, and comic book writer (1893–1947)
William Stern
German psychologist (1871-1938)
Wolfgang Köhler
German-American psychologist and phenomenologist (1887-1967)
Édouard Claparède
Swiss neurologist & pedagogue (1873-1940)
Émile Boirac
French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer (1851–1917)
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
Modern 313
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Adam Grant
American organizational psychologist (b. 1981)
Agnès Martin-Lugand
French novelist
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Alan Baddeley
British psychologist
Albert Bandura
Canadian psychologist (1925–2021)
Albert Ellis
American psychologist (1913–2007)
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Albert Mehrabian
American psychologist
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Aleksei N. Leontiev
Russian psychologist (1903–1979)
Alexander Luria
Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)
Alice Bradley Sheldon
American science fiction writer (1915–1987)
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Alice Miller
Swiss psychologist (1923-2010)
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Allen Newell
American cognitive scientist (1927–1992)
Amy Cuddy
American psychologist
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Ana Lilian de la Macorra
Mexican actress
Anatol Rapoport
Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911–2007)
Andrea Eskau
German sportwoman
Angela Duckworth
American psychologist awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Anna Enquist
Dutch writer (born 1945)
Anne Anastasi
American psychologist (1908-2001)
Anne Treisman
English psychologist (1935–2018)
Annie Duke
American poker player (b. 1965)
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Anthony de Mello
Indian writer (1931-1987)
Antoni Kępiński
Polish psychiatrist (1918-1972)
António Damásio
neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California (born 1944)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
American sociologist (1940-)
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Arthur Janov
American psychologist (1924–2017)
Arthur R. Jensen
American professor of educational psychology (1923-2012)
Ashis Nandy
Indian academic
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
Lithuanian academic (1927–2005)
B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist (1904–1990)
Barbara Engelking
Polish psychologist and sociologist
Batszewa Dagan
Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator, author, and speaker (1925-2024)
Becky Albertalli
American author of young adult fiction
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Benjamin Bloom
American psychologist (1913–1999)
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Benjamin Libet
American academic (1916–2007)
Betty Friedan
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Bill Mollison
Australian permaculturist (1928–2016)
Birgit Prinz
German association football player
Bluma Zeigarnik
Soviet psychologist
Boris Parygin
Russian academic (1930–2012)
Brenda Milner
Canada-based British neuroscientist and neuropsychologist
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Bruno Bettelheim
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)
C. George Boeree
American psychologist (1952-2021)
Carl Rogers
American psychologist (1902–1987)
Carol Gilligan
American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
Carol S. Dweck
American psychologist
Catherine Clément
French writer and philosopher (born 1939)
Celestino Aós Braco
Roman Catholic cardinal
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Charles E. Osgood
American psychologist (1916–1991)
Charles J. Chaput
American Catholic prelate
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Chris Argyris
American business theorist (1923-2013)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Christina Maslach
American psychologist
Christine Blasey Ford
American research psychologist
Christof Koch
American neuroscientist
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés
American psychoanalyst and writer
Claude Piron
Swiss translator and Esperantist (1931-2008)
Claudio Naranjo
Chilean psychiatrist and author (1932-2019)
Cordelia Fine
Canadian-born British psychologist and writer
Cordwainer Smith
American author (1913–1966)
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
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Dan Olweus
Swedish-Norwegian psychologist (1931–2020)
Daniel Gilbert
American psychologist and writer
Daniel Goleman
American psychologist & journalist
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
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Daniel Stern
American psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist (1934-2012)
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Daria Halprin
American author, dancer, and former actress
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David A. Kolb
American psychologist and philosopher (b. 12 December 1939)
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David Ausubel
American psychologist (1918–2008)
David Buss
American evolutionary psychologist
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David Marr
British neuroscientist and psychologist (1945–1980)
David McClelland
American psychologist (1917–1998)
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David Rosenhan
American psychologist and university teacher (1929–2012)
David Rumelhart
American psychologist (1942-2011)
David Servan-Schreiber
French physician (1961–2011)
Diana Baumrind
Clinical and developmental psychologist (1927–2018)
Donald Norman
American academic
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Donald O. Hebb
Canadian neuroscientist (1904–1985)
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Donald T. Campbell
American social scientist (1916–1996)
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Douglas Kelley
U.S. Army officer, psychiatrist, criminoligist, professor, author (1912–1958)
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Douglas McGregor
American professor of management
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Edgar Schein
Swiss-American psychologist
Edith Eger
Hungarian-American clinical psychologist and Holocaust survivor (1927–2026)
Edvard Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
Edward de Bono
Maltese physician (1933–2021)
Eileen O'Shaughnessy
British psychologist and writer (1905–1945)
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Elda Grin
Armenian writer and psychologist (1928-2016)
Eleanor J. Gibson
American psychologist and academic (1910–2002)
Eleanor Rosch
American psychologist & academic
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and...
Elizabeth Loftus
American cognitive psychologist
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Endel Tulving
Estonian-Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist (1927-2023)
Eric Berne
Canadian psychiatrist (1910-1970)
Eric Hoffer
American philosopher
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
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Eric Lenneberg
German American linguist and neurologist (1921–1975)
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Erich Neumann
German writer, psychologist and philosopher (1905-1960)
Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
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Erika Villaécija
Spanish swimmer
Ernest Becker
American cultural anthropologist (1924–1974)
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Ernest Hilgard
American psychologist (1904–2001)
Ernst von Glasersfeld
German philosopher (1917–2010)
Esther Vilar
Argentine writer
Eugen Drewermann
German psychologist and theologian (born 1940)
Eva Justin
German anthropologist (1909–1966)
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Evald Ilyenkov
Russian philosopher (1924–1979)
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Evelyn Hooker
American psychologist (1907-1996)
Farahnaz Pahlavi
Iranian noble
Federico Andahazi
Argentine writer
France Nuyen
French actress
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Francine Shapiro
American psychologist (1948–2019)
Frank Rosenblatt
American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence
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Frederick Irving Herzberg
American psychologist (1923-2000)
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Frits Bernard
Dutch psychologist and sex law reformer
Félix Guattari
French psychoanalyst (1930–1992)
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Gaby Bußmann
German athlete
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Geert Hofstede
Dutch psychologist (1928-2020)
Geoffrey F. Miller
American psychologist
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George Armitage Miller
American psychologist (1920–2012)
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George Kelly
American psychologist and therapist (1905–1967)
George Kingsley Zipf
American statistician (1902–1950)
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Georges Politzer
French philosopher, Marxist theoretician and resistance member (1903-1942)
Georgi Lozanov
Bulgarian psychologist and educator (1926-2012)
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Italian neuroscientist (born 1937)
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Gilbert Simondon
20th century French philosopher (1924–1989)
Gordon Neufeld
Canadian psychologist
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
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Gustave Gilbert
American psychologist (1911–1977)
Hadiqa Kiani
Pakistani singer
Hans Eysenck
British psychologist (1916–1997)
Hans Selye
Austro-Hungarian Canadian endocrinologist
Harold Lasswell
American political scientist (1902-1978)
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Harry Harlow
American psychologist (1905–1981)
Heinz Kohut
Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (1913-1981)
Helena Suková
Czech tennis player and psychologist
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Henri Ey
French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher (1900–1977)
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest and writer (1932-1996)
Henri Tajfel
British social psychologist and university teacher of Polish-Jewish origin
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Henry Bauchau
Belgium psychoanalyst, writer (1913–2012)
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Herbert Blumer
American sociologist, player of American football (1900–1987)
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Herbert Freudenberger
psychologist (1926-1999)
Howard Gardner
American developmental psychologist & academic
Hédi Fried
Swedish writer; survivor of the Holocaust
Ian Stevenson
Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher (1918–2007)
Igor Panarin
political scientist
Inija Trinkūnienė
Lithuanian Romuva priest & psychologist (1951-)
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Irene Pepperberg
scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition
Irvin Yalom
American psychotherapist and writer
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Israel Regardie
author and occultist (1907–1985)
Ivan Shapovalov
Russian record producer
J. C. R. Licklider
American psychologist and computer scientist (1915–1990)
Jaak Panksepp
American-Estonian neuroscientist (1943-2017)
Jack Kornfield
American writer
Jacqueline Harpman
Belgian psychologist (1929–2012)
James Hillman
American psychologist (1926–2011)
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James J. Gibson
American psychologist (1904-1979)
James Turrell
American sculptor (born 1943)
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James W. Fowler
American psychologist (1940–2015)
Jan Křesadlo
Czech poet, composer, painter, mathematician, translator, bookwriter and writer (1926-1995)
Jed Graef
American swimmer
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist and scholar
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Jerome Kagan
American psychologist (1929–2021)
John B. Calhoun
American ethologist and behavioral researcher (1917–1995)
John Bowlby
British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1907–1990)
John C. Lilly
American physician (1915-2001)
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John Edward Mack
American psychiatrist (1929–2004)
John Grinder
American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming
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John Henry Holland
US university professor ,American scientist (1929–2015)
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
John Money
New Zealand psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
John O'Keefe
American British neuroscientist, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
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John Tooby
American anthropologist
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John Wisdom
British philosopher (1904–1993)
Jon Kabat-Zinn
American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic...
Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist (1963-)
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Jonathan Kellerman
American novelist and psychologist
Jordan Peterson
Canadian clinical psychologist, author, and political commentator and manosphere...
Jorge Bucay
Argentine writer
Josephine Siao
Hong Kong actress
Joshua Fishman
American linguist (1926–2015)
João W. Nery
Brazilian transgender writer
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
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Judith Rich Harris
American psychology researcher (1938-2018)
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Julian B. Rotter
American psychologist (1916–2014)
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Julian Jaynes
American psychologist (1920–1997)
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Juliet Mitchell
Feminist psychologist
Karl H. Pribram
Austrian neuroscientist (1919–2015)
Ken Wilber
American writer and public speaker
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Ladislav Fuks
Czech novelist and writer (1923–1994)
Laleh Bakhtiar
Iranian academic (1938-2020)
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Laura Perls
German psychologist (1905-1990)
Laurence J. Peter
Canadian educator (1919–1990)
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Lawrence Kohlberg
American psychologist
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Leda Cosmides
American psychologist
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Leon Festinger
American psychologist
Leyla Hussein
British psychotherapist and social activist
Lisa Ryzih
German pole vaulter
Liz Murray
American psychologist and writer
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Lucien Sève
French philosopher and political activist (1926–2020)
László Mérő
Hungarian psychologist, mathematician, video game developer
László Polgár
Hungarian chess teacher
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M. Scott Peck
American psychiatrist (1936–2005)
Manès Sperber
Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist (1905–1984)
Margaret Boden
British academic (1936–2025)
Margaret Gardiner
South African beauty pageant contestant and journalist
Marie Jahoda
British Austrian-born psychologist
Marie-Louise von Franz
Swiss psychologist and scholar (1915-1998)
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Marsha M. Linehan
American psychologist
Marshall Rosenberg
American psychologist (1934-2015)
Marta Harnecker
Chilean academic
Martin Seligman
American psychologist and writer
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Mary Ainsworth
American-Canadian psychologist & scholar
Mary L. Trump
American psychologist and writer (born 1965)
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
Meir Shalev
Israeli writer (1948–2023)
Melanie Joy
American psychologist
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Melissa Farley
American psychologist
Meredith Eaton
American actress
Michael S. Gazzaniga
American neuroscientist
Michael Shermer
American science writer
Michael Tomasello
American developmental psychologist
Michel Jouvet
French neurobiologist (1925-2017)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist (1934–2021)
Milton H. Erickson
American psychiatrist (1901–1980)
Monica Lewinsky
American activist and writer (born 1973)
Muzaffer Şerif
Turkish psychologist (1906–1988)
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Nancy J. Chodorow
American feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst
Nathaniel Branden
Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930–2014)
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Neal E. Miller
American psychologist and academic (1909-2002)
Ned Block
American philosopher and academic
Nise da Silveira
Brazilian psychiatrist (1905-1999)
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish writer and activist (born 1962)
Parinoush Saniee
Iranian novelist and writer
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Pascal Boyer
French anthropologist
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Patrick Spencer Johnson
American writer
Paul Ekman
American evolutionary and social psychologist (1934-2025)
Paul Lazarsfeld
Austrian-American sociologist
Paul Watzlawick
Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921-2007)
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Peter Gay
German-American historian and author (1923–2015)
Philip Zimbardo
American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment (1933–2024)
R. D. Laing
unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
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Ralph Greenson
American psychiatrist (1911-1979)
Ralph Metzner
German psychologist (1936–2019)
Ram Dass
American spiritual teacher, author and psychologist
Ray Blanchard
American-Canadian sexologist (born 1945)
Raymond Cattell
British-American psychologist (1905–1998)
Raymond Moody
American psychologist
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Reem Farani
Palestinian Women's Rights activist
Rensis Likert
American statistician (1903–1981)
Reuben Fine
American chess player and psychologist (1914–1993)
Reuven Feuerstein
Israeli educator (1921-2014)
Richard Bandler
American author and trainer in the field of self-help
Richard D. Ryder
British psychologist and animal rights advocate
Richard Lynn
British psychologist (1930–2023)
Richard Wiseman
British psychologist
Robert Anton Wilson
American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
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Robert D. Hare
Canadian psychologist
Robert Plutchik
American emotion psychologist (1927–2006)
Robert Ritter
German psychologist (1901–1951)
Robert Sternberg
American psychologist & scholar
Robert Taylor
American computer scientist (1932–2017)
Robert Trivers
American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist
Robin Dunbar
British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist
Roger Sperry
American neuroscientist
Rollo May
American psychologist (1909–1994)
Rosa Montero
Spanish writer
Rudolf Arnheim
German psychologist (1904-2007)
Sabina Berman Goldberg
Mexican poet, playwright and film director
Samael Aun Weor
Colombian writer (1917–1977)
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Sandra Bem
American psychologist
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Sara García Gross
human rights activist and feminist from El Salvador
Sara Netanyahu
wife of the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
Serge Moscovici
Romenian social psychologist (1925-2014)
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
Sherry Turkle
American social scientist and psychologist
Shoshana Zuboff
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
Simon Baron-Cohen
British psychologist and author
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Solomon Asch
Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996)
Stanislas Dehaene
French neuroscientist
Stanislav Grof
Czech pychiatrist
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Stanley Schachter
American psychologist
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Stanley Smith Stevens
American psychologist & scholar (1906-1973)
Starhawk
American author, activist and Neopagan
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Stephen Krashen
American linguist
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of...
Susan Blackmore
British writer and academic
Susana Chávez
Mexican activist (1974-2011)
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
Thomas Gordon
American psychologist (1918-2002)
Timothy Leary
American psychologist (1920–1996)
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Tom Henning Øvrebø
Norwegian football referee
Tomas Tranströmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
Tomáš Halík
Czech Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian
Tony Buzan
English author and educational consultant (1942–2019)
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Tuomas Grönman
Finnish ice hockey player
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Ulric Neisser
American psychologist (1928–2012)
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Urie Bronfenbrenner
Russian American developmental psychologist (1917–2005)
Uta Frith
German developmental psychologist
Victor Skumin
Russian scientist, writer, philosopher
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Indian-American neuroscientist
Violetta Oblinger-Peters
Austrian canoeist
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Virginia E. Johnson
American sexologist and writer (1925-2013)
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W. D. Hamilton
British evolutionary biologist (1936–2000)
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Walter Mischel
Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist
Walter Pitts
American logician and computational neuroscientist (1923-1969)
Wanda Półtawska
Polish psychiatrist (1921–2023)
Wayne Dyer
American writer (1940-2015)
Wendy Doniger
American Indologist (born 1940)
William Wharton
American author and painter (1925-2008)