Every type has its good and bad representatives, but after googling for some famous ISTPs, I decided to comprise a list of the best ones I could find. After seeing all these names, I'd like to see similar lists in the forums of other types as well. I don't think I'll be making any lists for any other types myself, but if anyone else wants to, I encourage you to!
Most of the lists I found online were very short. This is a compilation of those lists. Enjoy, and please feel free to share any I missed!
Here they are, in no particular order...
Mel Gibson
Wolverine
Clint Eastwood
Han Solo
James Dean
Q
Michael Jordan
The Punisher
Bruce Lee
Boba Fett
Christian Bale
The Fonz
Russell Crowe
Jack Bauer
Burt Reynolds
Iron Man
Tom Cruize
Daniel Craig
Legolas
Kevin Spacey
DISCLAIMER: Some of these people, particularly the fictional ones, can be argued for other types. At the very least, the general consensus for these people is that they are ISTPs.
Because of a 20 picture limit for posts, the three video game ISTPs are in the next post.
are you sure about Jean Gray?? When I saw those X Men movies i always thought Wolverine struck me as the ISTP... Jean seemed way too brainy. (And I say that as an engineer who barely got through school.) ha
Perhaps just Famke Janssen herself (actress). She played a role as Oromov's bodyguard in goldeneye, and pretty much had orgasm everytime she fired the ak47... haha. Just the actress herself, and I'm basing this primarily off of her constant stoic appearance and half smiles that characterize ISTP's.
Yeah, to be honest, I did look specifically for female ISTPs, but the ones I found were never people I recognized. In all honesty, the ISTP category is male-dominated (rawr). Does anyone have any other good female ISTPs that I missed? (Or males, for that matter).
I would be careful to propose knowing the actor's true type. Characters may be observed in the movies, but knowing that Sylvester Stallone, Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood, etc are ISTPs in real life is a bit presumptious unless you know them intimately. Granted the rags like the "Enquirer" can give us some indication, but maybe I just don't follow anyone's career enough to be that engrossed in their personal life.
Actually I don't believe Matt Damon is an ISTP IRL, but the Jason Bourne character definitely is, as are most of the characters Clint Eastwood plays. And I've seen some people type (like Jonathan Niednagel) Stallone as an ESTP.
I could see Stallone as an ESTP instead. Still, I think we can make a claim to him.
What do you think of Liam Neeson's character in "Taken"? I've never thought of Neeson as a real-life ISTP, but in this movie the main character seemed to be one, IMO.
Badass enough to be one of the most famous people in Japan (not just animation!) for the last thirty years... (they built a 1/1 replica of the Gundam from 1979 there for the show's anniversary this summer!)
He does a little more than I do. But I still feel P) very strongly with him on the I and the P, I guess.
Even if I actually like his non-ISTP gf a little better. :crazy:
(is it common for ISTPs to have the tech-nerd/badass balance?)
Im not sure about the actess who plays her DJ Arendee could have point, but the charater Jean Grey I think is an INFJ not saying that because I am. It just adds up with the empath powers and all. she was a lot like Xavier. I have to add she is totaly stunning and I yed my hair red because of her. Sadly the likness stopped with the hair. Have you had Indiana Jones yet?
Most characters that Michelle Rodriquez plays seem to be some pretty bad ass ISTP females.
Here's a quote from her that sums up ISTP females in movies pretty nicely.
"Anytime you’ve got a wild, independent, free-spirited woman, she has to die at the end of the movie, unless it’s a movie that’s so sci-fi that it can’t be real, like Tomb Raider. Me? I die in every film that I’m in this year. They’re just gonna have to keep on killing me. I’ll keep coming back, until they realize what’s hot and make flicks for bitches like me."
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