| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Alfred Adler |
Psychologist |
7-Feb-1870 |
28-May-1937 |
Founder of Individual Psychology |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| Alois Alzheimer |
Doctor |
14-Jun-1864 |
19-Dec-1915 |
Alzheimer's Disease |
| Dan Ariely |
Economist |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
The Upside of Irrationality |
| Albert Bandura |
Psychologist |
4-Dec-1925 |
|
Bobo doll experiments |
| Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist |
28-Aug-1903 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Fraudulent child psychologist |
| Alfred Binet |
Psychologist |
11-Jul-1857 |
8-Oct-1911 |
Binet-Simon intelligence test |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Joyce Brothers |
Psychologist |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
Pop psychologist |
| James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
| Kenneth B. Clark |
Psychologist |
14-Jul-1914 |
1-May-2005 |
Studied the effects of prejudice on children |
| Ram Dass |
Religion |
5-Apr-1931 |
|
Be Here Now |
| Paul Ekman |
Psychologist |
15-Feb-1934 |
|
Facial Action Coding System |
| Albert Ellis |
Psychologist |
27-Sep-1913 |
24-Jul-2007 |
Rational emotive behavior therapy |
| Erik Erikson |
Psychologist |
15-Jun-1902 |
12-May-1994 |
Eight Stages of Development |
| Hans Eysenck |
Psychologist |
4-Mar-1916 |
4-Sep-1997 |
Intelligence and personality |
| Martha J. Farah |
Psychologist |
c. 1955 |
|
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn |
| Robert A. Fein |
Psychologist |
? |
|
National Threat Assessment Center |
| Anna Freud |
Relative |
3-Dec-1895 |
9-Oct-1982 |
Daughter of Sigmund Freud |
| Erich Fromm |
Psychologist |
23-Mar-1900 |
18-Mar-1980 |
Psychoanalyst, Humanist |
| Carol Gilligan |
Psychologist |
28-Nov-1936 |
|
In a Different Voice |
| Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
17-May-2010 |
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
| David Hartley |
Philosopher |
8-Aug-1705 |
28-Aug-1757 |
Theory of associationism |
| Karen Horney |
Psychologist |
16-Sep-1885 |
4-Dec-1952 |
Disputed Freud's concept of "penis envy" |
| Clark L. Hull |
Psychologist |
24-May-1884 |
10-May-1952 |
Principles of Behavior |
| William James |
Philosopher |
11-Jan-1842 |
26-Aug-1910 |
The Principles of Psychology |
| Pierre Janet |
Psychologist |
30-May-1859 |
24-Feb-1947 |
Founder of Automatic Psychology |
| Daniel Kahneman |
Psychologist |
5-Mar-1934 |
|
The psychology of economics |
| George Kelly |
Psychologist |
28-Apr-1905 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Personal Construct Theory of personality |
| Melanie Klein |
Psychologist |
30-Mar-1882 |
22-Sep-1960 |
The Psychoanalysis of Children |
| Lawrence Kohlberg |
Psychologist |
25-Oct-1927 |
17-Jan-1987 |
Stages of moral development |
| Kurt Lewin |
Psychologist |
9-Sep-1890 |
12-Feb-1947 |
Field theorist, group dynamicist |
| Alexander Luria |
Psychologist |
16-Jul-1902 |
14-Aug-1977 |
Pioneer of neuropsychology |
| Abraham Maslow |
Psychologist |
1-Apr-1908 |
8-Jun-1970 |
Hierarchy of Needs |
| Rollo May |
Psychologist |
21-Apr-1909 |
22-Oct-1994 |
Love and Will |
| Elton Mayo |
Psychologist |
26-Dec-1880 |
7-Sep-1949 |
Student of Industrial Civilization |
| William McDougall |
Psychologist |
22-Jun-1871 |
28-Nov-1938 |
An Introduction to Social Psychology |
| Stanley Milgram |
Psychologist |
15-Aug-1933 |
20-Dec-1984 |
Milgram Experiment |
| Jean Piaget |
Psychologist |
9-Aug-1896 |
17-Sep-1980 |
Elaborated the stages of childhood |
| Steven Pinker |
Linguist |
18-Sep-1954 |
|
The Language Instinct |
| Walter B. Pitkin |
Psychologist |
6-Feb-1878 |
25-Jan-1953 |
Life Begins at Forty |
| Carl Rogers |
Psychologist |
8-Jan-1902 |
4-Feb-1987 |
Non-directive theory of psychology |
| Roxanne Shante |
Rapper |
9-Nov-1969 |
|
Roxanne's Revenge |
| Alexander Shulgin |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1925 |
|
Rediscovered MDMA |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| Lewis Terman |
Psychologist |
15-Jan-1877 |
21-Dec-1956 |
Intelligence tests |
| Edward Titchener |
Psychologist |
11-Jan-1867 |
3-Aug-1927 |
Structural psychology |
| Tomas Tranströmer |
Poet |
15-Apr-1931 |
|
Scandinavian poet |
| Amos Tversky |
Psychologist |
16-Mar-1937 |
2-Jun-1996 |
Cognitive psychologist, studied risks |
| Neil Clark Warren |
Business |
18-Sep-1934 |
|
Founder, eHarmony |
| Margaret Floy Washburn |
Psychologist |
25-Jul-1871 |
29-Oct-1939 |
First female American psychologist |
| John Watson |
Psychologist |
9-Jan-1878 |
25-Sep-1958 |
Founder of Behaviorism |
| Terry Winograd |
Scientist |
24-Feb-1946 |
|
Understanding Natural Language |
| Wilhelm Wundt |
Psychologist |
16-Aug-1832 |
31-Aug-1920 |
Father of Experimental Psychology |
| Philip Zimbardo |
Psychologist |
23-Mar-1933 |
|
1971 Stanford Prison Experiment |
| Slavoj iek |
Philosopher |
21-Mar-1949 |
|
Lacan theorist, intellectual rockstar |