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This list includes famous psychologists and contributors to psychology; some of them may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because their important contributions to the discipline.
Lists of psychologists in particular specialisms:
At present, psychologists included in the above lists are also listed here
- Alfred Adler
- Michael Argyle
- Aristotle
- Solomon Asch
- Roberto Assagioli
- Aushra Augustinavichute
- Albert Bandura
- Sir Frederic Bartlett
- Aaron Beck
- Ernest Becker
- Daryl Bem
- Alfred Binet
- Nathaniel Branden
- Donald Broadbent
- Jerome S. Bruner
- Sir Cyril Burt
- Jean-Martin Charcot
- Albert Ellis (founder of "Rational Emotive Therapy")
- Havelock Ellis
- Erik H. Erikson
- Hans Eysenck
- Leon Festinger
- Viktor Frankl
- Anna Freud
- Sigmund Freud
- J. J. Gibson
- Erich Fromm
- Harry Harlow
- Donald O. Hebb
- Richard Herrnstein
- Karen Horney
- Clark L. Hull
- William James
- Kay Redfield Jamison
- Arthur Janov (invented Primal therapy)
- Ernest Jones
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Daniel Kahneman (Nobel laureate)
- George Kelly
- Alfred Kinsey
- Melanie Klein
- Kurt Koffka
- Wolfgang Köhler
- Lawrence Kohlberg
- Heinz Kohut
- Emil Kraepelin
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
- Jacques Lacan
- Karl Lashley
- Rollo May
- Abraham Maslow
- William Masters and Virginia Johnson
- Rollo May
- Lloyd deMause
- William McDougall
- Ronald Melzack
- Stanley Milgram
- Alice Miller
- George A. Miller
- Neal E. Miller
- Brenda Milner
- Raymond Moody
- C. Lloyd Morgan (noted for his canon)
- O. H. Mowrer
- Ulrich Neisser
- Ivan Pavlov
- Fritz Perls
- Jean Piaget
- Steven Pinker
- James W. Prescott
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Otto Rank
- Wilhelm Reich
- Samuel Renshaw
- Carl Rogers
- Hermann Rorschach
- Virginia Satir
- Martin Seligman
- Morita Shoma
- Burrhus F. Skinner
- Herbert Simon (Nobel laureate)
- Robert Sternberg
- Herbert Stack Sullivan
- Edward L. Thorndike
- L. L. Thurstone
- Edward Titchener
- Edward C. Tolman
- Amos Tversky
- Liev S. Vygotski
- Hans-Juergen Walter
- John B. Watson
- Max Wertheimer
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Irvin Yalom
- Robert Yerkes
- Oliver L. Zangwill
