The Most Famous
PSYCHOLOGISTS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Psychologists. The pantheon dataset contains 235 Psychologists, 2 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 17th most number of Psychologists behind Romania, and Estonia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Psychologists of all time. This list of famous Indian Psychologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Wilfred Bion (1897 - 1979)
With an HPI of 54.01, Wilfred Bion is the most famous Indian Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.
2. V. S. Ramachandran (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 48.14, V. S. Ramachandran is the 2nd most famous Indian Psychologist. His biography has been translated into 28 different languages.
Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is an Indian-American neuroscientist. He is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. Ramachandran is a distinguished professor in UCSD's Department of Psychology, where he is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. After earning a medical degree in India, Ramachandran studied experimental neuroscience at Cambridge, obtaining his PhD there in 1978. Most of his research has been in the fields of behavioral neurology and visual psychophysics. After early work on human vision, Ramachandran turned to work on wider aspects of neurology including phantom limbs and phantom pain. Ramachandran also performed the world's first "phantom limb amputation" surgeries by inventing the mirror therapy, which is now widely used for reducing phantom pains (and eliminating phantom sensations altogether in long term), and also for helping to restore motor control in stroke victims with weakened limbs. Ramachandran's popular books Phantoms in the Brain (1998), The Tell-Tale Brain (2010), and others describe neurological and clinical studies of people with synesthesia, Capgras syndrome, and a wide range of other unusual conditions. Ramachandran has also described his work in many public lectures, including lectures for the BBC, and two official TED talks. Both his scientific research and his popularization of science have been recognized with multiple awards.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indian psychologists born between 1897 and 1951. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indian psychologists include V. S. Ramachandran. The most famous deceased Indian psychologists include Wilfred Bion.
