Notable psychologists

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 of their important contributions to the discipline.

Specialised lists of psychologists can be found at the articles comparative psychology, list of social psychologists and list of cognitive scientists. Psychologists included in those lists are also listed below:

100 most notable psychologist of 20th century Further list of prominent psychologists

A

 * Alfred Adler
 * Jüri Allik
 * Gordon Allport
 * Michael Argyle
 * Solomon Asch
 * Roberto Assagioli
 * John William Atkinson
 * Aushra Augustinavichute

B

 * Alan Baddeley
 * Michael Balint
 * Albert Bandura
 * Gregory Bateson
 * Vladimir Bekhterev
 * Sir Frederic Bartlett
 * Aaron T. Beck (A psychiatrist, not a psychologist; founder of cognitive therapy)
 * Ernest Becker
 * Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
 * Richard Bentall
 * Daryl Bem
 * Michael Billig
 * Alfred Binet
 * Wilfred Bion
 * David Birch
 * Benjamin Bloom
 * John Bowlby
 * Nathaniel Branden
 * Donald Broadbent
 * Urie Bronfenbrenner (founder of "Human Ecology" / theory of the ecology of human development)
 * Jerome S. Bruner
 * Sir Cyril Burt

C

 * Mary Calkins
 * James Cattell
 * Raymond Cattell
 * Laura Carstensen
 * Jean-Martin Charcot
 * Nancy Chodorow
 * Lee Cronbach
 * Ronald L. Cohen
 * Leda Cosmides
 * Clyde Coombs

D

 * Lloyd deMause
 * John Dewey
 * Dietrich Doerner

E

 * Derek Edwards
 * Paul Ekman
 * Albert Ellis (founder of "Rational Emotive Behavorial Therapy")
 * Havelock Ellis
 * Erik H. Erikson
 * Milton H. Erickson
 * Hans Eysenck

F

 * Gustav Fechner
 * Leon Festinger
 * Ronald Fisher (Statistician}
 * Viktor Frankl
 * Anna Freud
 * Sigmund Freud (founder of Psychoanalysis)
 * Erich Fromm

G

 * John Gabrieli
 * Francis Galton
 * J. J. Gibson
 * William Glasser
 * Daniel Goleman
 * William Sealy Gosset- inventor of the T-test
 * Elizabeth Gould
 * Robert Grosseteste
 * J. P. Guilford

H

 * G. Stanley Hall
 * Harry Harlow
 * Friedrich Hayek
 * Donald O. Hebb
 * Fritz Heider
 * Hermann von Helmholtz
 * Richard Herrnstein
 * Leta Hollingworth
 * Edwin Holt
 * Karen Horney
 * David Hume
 * Clark L. Hull
 * Edwin Hutchins

J

 * William James
 * Kay Redfield Jamison
 * Arthur Janov (invented Primal therapy)
 * Julian Jaynes
 * Marcia K. Johnson
 * Phlip Johnson-Laird
 * Ernest Jones
 * Mary Cover Jones
 * Carl Gustav Jung

K

 * Daniel Kahneman (Nobel laureate)
 * George Kelly
 * Otto F. Kernberg (psychiatrist)
 * Alfred Kinsey
 * Melanie Klein
 * Friedhart Klix
 * Kurt Koffka (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Wolfgang Köhler (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Lawrence Kohlberg
 * Heinz Kohut
 * Emil Kraepelin
 * Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

L

 * Jacques Lacan
 * Ellen Langer
 * Michael Langone
 * Karl Lashley
 * Timothy Leary
 * Kurt Lewin
 * Elizabeth Loftus
 * Konrad Lorenz

M

 * Sam Maniar (sport psychologist)
 * Margaret Mahler
 * Abraham Maslow
 * William Masters and Virginia Johnson (Physicians, not psychologists)
 * Rollo May
 * David McClelland
 * James McClelland
 * William McDougall
 * Jacques Mehler
 * Ronald Melzack
 * Wolfgang Metzger (main representative of Gestalt psychology in Germany)
 * Stanley Milgram
 * Alice Miller
 * George A. Miller
 * Neal E. Miller
 * Brenda Milner
 * Arnold Mindell (founder of Process Oriented Psychology)
 * Stephen A. Mitchell
 * Raymond Moody
 * C. Lloyd Morgan (noted for his canon)
 * O. H. Mowrer
 * Hugo Munsterberg
 * John F. Murray (sport psychologist)

N

 * Ulric Neisser
 * Alexander Sutherland Neill
 * Erich Neumann
 * Craig Newnes
 * Donald Norman
 * Kent Norman

O

 * James "Jim" Olds
 * Thomas Ogden

P

 * Ivan Pavlov
 * Karl Pearson- Statistician
 * Fritz Perls
 * Jean Piaget
 * Steven Pinker
 * Jonathan Potter
 * James W. Prescott
 * Zenon Pylyshyn

R

 * Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
 * Otto Rank
 * Wilhelm Reich
 * Ulf-Dietrich Reips
 * Samuel Renshaw
 * Carl Rogers
 * Hermann Rorschach
 * Eleanor Rosch
 * Julian Rotter
 * Dorothy Rowe
 * Theodore Roszak(eco thinker)
 * David Rumelhart

S

 * Virginia Satir (A social worker, not a psychologist)
 * Daniel Schacter
 * Stanley Schachter
 * Roy Schafer
 * Walter Dill Scott
 * Margaret Singer
 * Martin Seligman
 * Morita Shoma
 * Burrhus F. Skinner
 * Herbert Simon (Nobel laureate)
 * William Sheldon
 * Paul Slovic
 * Charles Spearman
 * David Smail
 * Stanley Smith Stevens
 * Robert Sternberg
 * Harry Stack Sullivan
 * José Szapocznik

T

 * Lewis Terman
 * Edward L. Thorndike
 * L. L. Thurstone
 * Edward Titchener
 * Endel Tulving
 * Edward C. Tolman
 * John Tooby
 * Anne Treisman
 * Amos Tversky

U

 * Dimitri Uznadze

V

 * Lev S. Vygotsky

W

 * Hans-Juergen Walter (founder of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy)
 * Margaret Floy Washburn (First female PhD in psychology)
 * John B. Watson
 * Paul Watzlawick
 * David Wechsler
 * Max Wertheimer (co-founder of Gestalt psychology)
 * Ken Wilber
 * Donald Woods Winnicott
 * Robert S. Woodworth
 * Wilhelm Wundt  (father of Experimental psychology)

Y

 * Irvin Yalom (A psychiatrist, not a psychologist)
 * Robert Yerkes

Z

 * Robert J. Zajonc
 * Oliver L. Zangwill
 * Philip Zimbardo
 * Manas K Mandal

Prescientific theorists

 * Aristotle
 * Buddhaghosa
 * René Descartes