With 183 biographies, Psychologists are the 50th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Pornographic Actors, Sculptors, and Gymnasts.
Pantheon has 207 people classified as psychologists born between 1795 and 1967. Of these 207, 37 (17.87%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living psychologists include Daniel Kahneman, Irvin D. Yalom, and Paul Ekman. The most famous deceased psychologists include Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Jean Piaget. As of April 2022, 23 new psychologists have been added to Pantheon including Robert Plutchik, Arnold Gesell, and Benjamin Libet.
1934 - Present
HPI: 70.55
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.83
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.08
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.99
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.94
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.12
1936 - Present
HPI: 57.50
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.88
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.68
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.38
1856 - 1939
HPI: 89.62
1875 - 1961
HPI: 81.22
1896 - 1980
HPI: 80.95
1908 - 1970
HPI: 79.14
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
1896 - 1934
HPI: 77.29
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
1859 - 1952
HPI: 77.23
1901 - 1981
HPI: 76.13
1842 - 1910
HPI: 75.72
1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
1880 - 1961
HPI: 54.52
1916 - 2007
HPI: 54.05
1916 - 2014
HPI: 53.51
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.09
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.01
1911 - 1977
HPI: 52.99
1926 - 2011
HPI: 52.76
1889 - 1957
HPI: 52.63
1937 - Present
HPI: 50.89
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.10
1919 - 2015
HPI: 49.77
Most psychologists were born in United States (75), Germany (20), and United Kingdom (18). By city, the most common birth places were New York City (13), Vienna (12), and Berlin (6).The most common death places of psychologists were United States (96), United Kingdom (16), and France (16). By city, these were New York City (12), London (7), and Paris (6).
The earliest biographies classified as psychologists in Pantheon are Alexander Bain, Gustav Fechner, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. The concentration of psychologists was largest during the Radio & Film Era, which lasted from 1900 to 1949. Some birth or death locations for earlier psychologists are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Psychologists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Psychologists since 1700.
Psychologists are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Mathematicians, Physicists, Astronomers, and Chemists.