Famous People by Enneagram Type According to Don Richard Riso

While these people have never taken an enneagram test as far as we know, we can only make educated guesses about their personalities by their biographies and character analyzations. The conclusions are based on observation, logic, and intuition. What is in parantheses is my addition.

More discussion about the enneagram types of celebrities can be found at Jan's Movies, Literature, and Public Life Forum.

One - Two - Three - Four - Five - Six - Seven - Eight - Nine

One with Nine Wing (1w9) - The Idealist
Dr. Joyce Brothers
William F. Buckley
Noam Chomsky
Michael Dukakis
Al Gore
George Harrison
Katherine Hepburn
St. Ignatius
Thomas Jefferson
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
C.S. Lewis
Cotton Mather
Sandra Day O'Conner
Carl Sagan
Eric Severeid
"Mr. Spock"
George F. Will

One with Two Wing (1w2) - The Advocate
Joan of Arc
Joan Baez
John Bradshaw
Jerry Brown
Anita Bryant
Tom Brokaw
Alistair Cooke
Mario Cuomo
Jane Fonda
Mohandas Gandhi
St. Thomas More
Bill Moyers
Ralph Nader
Pope John Paul II
Vanessa Redgrave
Albert Schweitzer
Gene Siskel
Leslie Stahl
Margaret Thatcher

 

Two with One Wing (2w1) - The Servant
Alan Alda
"Jean Brodie"
Lewis Carroll (debatable)
Ann Landers
Florence Nightengale
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother Teresa
Danny Thomas
Archibishop Desmond Tutu
"Melanie Hamilton Wilkes"

Two with Three Wing (2w3) - The Host/Hostess
Kathy Bates
Pat Boone
Leo Buscaglia
Barbara Bush
Lillian Carter
Sammy Davis, Jr.
John Denver
Doug Henning
Barry Manilow
Luciano Pavarotti
Richard Simmons
Tommy Tune

 

Three with Two Wing (3w2) - The Star
Prince Andrew
Dick Clark
Bill Clinton
"Hedda Gabler"
Kathie Lee Gifford
Whitney Houston
Jack Kemp
"Lady MacBeth"
Shirley MacLaine
Paul McCartney
Joe Montana
Jane Pauley
Elvis Presley
Tony Robbins
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Brooke Shields
O.J. Simpson (Threes ARE sneaky!)
Sylvester Stallone
Denzel Washington
Vanna White

Three with Four Wing (3w4) - The Professional
Truman Capote
Jimmy Carter
Dick Cavett
Tom Cruise
Richard Gere
Bryant Gumbel
"Iago"
W. Somerset Maugham
George Stephanopoulos
Sting
Meryl Streep
Barbra Streisand
Michael Tilson Thomas
Andy Warhol

 

Four with Three Wing (4w3) - The Aristocrat
Maria Callas
Albert Camus
Frederick Chopin
"Blanche DuBois"
Judy Garland
Martha Graham
Jeremy Irons
E.M. Forster
Michael Jackson
Gustav Mahler
Rudolf Nureyev
Edith Piaf
The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Marcel Proust
Don Richard Riso (creator of this list)
Paul Simon
Peter Tchaikovsky
Walt Whitman
Tennessee Williams

Four with Five Wing (4w5) - The Bohemian
Ingmar Bergman
William Blake
Cory Caplinger (me, of course!)
Johnny Depp
Bob Dylan
Hermann Hesse
Soren Kierkegaard
D.H. Lawrence
Yukio Mishima
Joni Mitchell
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rice
J.D. Salinger
Saul Steinberg
"Laura Wingfield"
Virginia Woolf

 

Five with Four Wing (5w4) - The Iconoclast
Laurie Anderson
Hannah Arendt
Clive Barker
Tim Burton
John Cage
Kurt Cobain
Umberto Eco
Albert Einstein
Glenn Gould
Werner Heisenburg
Franz Kafka (likely a 4w5)
Buster Keaton
Stephen King
Stanley Kubrick
k.d. lang
Gary Larson
John Lennon (debatable)
David Lynch
Freidrich Nietzsche
Georgia O'Keefe
Peter Serkin
Vincent Van Gogh (likely a 4w5)

Five with Six Wing (5w6) - The Problem Solver
Isaac Asimov
Jacob Brownowski
Charles Darwin
Bobby Fischer
Sigmund Freud
Bill Gates (ironically creates more problems than solves them)
Stephen Hawking
Alfred Hitchcock (likely a 6w5)
Howard Hughes
Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber"
Doris Lessing
Karl Marx
Cynthia Ozick
Ezra Pound
B.F. Skinner
Simone Weil
Edward O. Wilson

 

Six with Five Wing (6w5) - The Defender
George Bush
Bob Dole
Phil Donahue
Billy Graham
Alexander Haig
John Hinckley, Jr.
J. Edgar Hoover
Rock Hudson
Meir Kahane
Diane Keaton
Robert F. Kennedy
Jessica Lange
Joseph McCarthy
Walter Mondale
Malcolm X
Richard Nixon
Oliver North
Michelle Pfeiffer
Robert Redford
Bruce Springsteen

Six with Seven Wing (6w7) - The Buddy
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Candice Bergen
"Archie Bunker"
Johnny Carson
"Cowardly Lion"
Princess Diana
Sally Field
Tom Hanks
Reggie Jackson
Ted Kennedy
Jay Leno
Rush Limbaugh (could be a 1w2)
Marilyn Monroe
Gilda Radner
Julia Roberts
Andy Rooney
Tom Selleck
Patrick Swayze

 

Seven with Six Wing (7w6) - The Entertainer
John Belushi
Leonard Bernstein
Mel Brooks
Carol Burnett
Sid Caesar
Jim Carrey
Dr. Richard Feynman
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob Hope
Elton John
Timothy Leary
Liberace
Bette Midler
Liza Minnelli
Zero Mostel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Regis Philbin
"Miss Piggy"
Mickey Rooney
Arthur Rubenstein
Steven Spielberg
Elizabeth Taylor
Peter Ustinov
Robin Williams
Marianne Williamson
Shelley Winters

Seven with Eight Wing (7w8) - The Realist
Lauren Bacall
Helen Gurley Brown
George Carlin (my addition)
Joan Collins
Noel Coward
Marlene Dietrich
Phyllis Diller
Frederico Fellini
Malcolm Forbes
Cary Grant
John F. Kennedy
Larry King
Judith Krantz
Susan Lucci
"Martha" from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Niven
George Plimpton
Cole Porter
Geraldo Rivera
Joan Rivers
Howard Stern
Jacqueline Susann
Duchess of Windsor

 

Eight with Seven Wing (8w7) - The Maverick
Bella Abzug
Muhammed Ali
Idi Amin
Richard Burton
Al Capone
Sean Connery
Bette Davis
John DeLorean
Mikhail Gorbachev
G.I. Gurdjieff
Leona Helmsley
Ernest Hemingway
Lee Iacocca
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jim Jones
Harvey Keitel
Henry Kissinger
Norman Mailer
Ferdinand Marcos
Aristotle Onassis
Muammar Qaddifi
Ann Richards
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roseanne
Frank Sinatra
Joseph Stalin
Donald Trump
Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Richard Wagner
Mike Wallace
Barbara Walters

Eight with Nine Wing (8w9) - The Bear
Robert Altman
Marlon Brando
Leonid Brezhnev
Johnny Cash
Fidel Castro
"Don Vito Corleone"
Indira Gandhi
Charles de Gaulle
Charlton Heston
John Huston
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"King Lear"
Golda Meir
Paul Newman
Pablo Picasso
Janet Reno
Barbara Stanwyck
"Darth Vader"
John Wayne

 

Nine with Eight Wing (9w8) - The Comfort Seeker
Ingrid Bergman
Marc Chagall
Gary Cooper
Perry Como
Kevin Costner
Walter Cronkite
Bing Crosby
Geena Davis
Hugh Downs
Dwight Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
Whoopi Goldberg
Janet Jackson
Lady Bird Johnson
Sophia Loren
Ronald Reagan
Keanu Reeves
Ringo Starr

Nine with One Wing (9w1) - The Dreamer
"Edith Bunker"
Joseph Campbell
Rosalynn Carter
"Desdemona"
Walt Disney
Queen Elizabeth II
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Fonda
Jim Henson
Carl Jung (could be a 5w4)
Garrison Keiller
Grace Kelly, "Princess Grace of Monaco"
Rose Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Norman Rockwell
"Marge Simpson"
Jimmy Stewart
Dame Joan Sutherland


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