List of Famous People With ESTJ Personality

ESTJ (extroverted sensing thinking judging) is one of the sixteen personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. ESTJs make up about seven percent of the population.

ESTJs are confident, decisive, and well-organized. They take command of any situation naturally and gravitate toward positions of authority.

ESTJs also like tradition and orderliness. As far as they are concerned, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things, and people who are doing it the wrong way need to be corrected.

More free-spirited and creative personalities may find ESTJs bossy, closed-minded, or even bullying. But ESTJs can also bring clarity and direction to confused situations, and help others focus on what needs to be done to achieve solutions.

Here are 75+ famous people who fit the ESTJ types.

POLITICIANS & WORLD LEADERS

Since ESTJs like to be in charge, politics can be a natural outlet for them.

• Theresa May, British Prime Minister. source
• James Monroe, U.S. President. source
• Andrew Jackson, U.S. President. source
• Benjamin Harrison, U.S. President. source
• Franklin Pierce, U.S. President. source
• Grover Cleveland, U.S. President. source
• Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. President. source
• Michelle Obama, U.S. First Lady. source
• Sandra Day O’Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. source
• Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. source
• Rose Kennedy, U.S. matriarch of the Kennedy family. source
• Douglas MacArthur, U.S. general. source
• Bernard Law Montgomery, British general. source
• Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator. source
• Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator. source
• Carrie Nation, U.S. temperance activist. source
• Eliot Ness, U.S. law enforcement agent. source

BUSINESS

ESTJs are also comfortable in the structured organization of a corporation, and make excellent CEOs.

• Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. source
• Alan Sugar, English entrepreneur. source
• Ivanka Trump, U.S. fashion designer. source

JOURNALISTS

ESTJs tend to be outspoken about their opinions, so they’re more likely to be political pundits rather than traditional journalists.

• Megyn Kelly, U.S. news anchor. source
• Bill O’Reilly, U.S. television host. source
• Alan Dershowitz, U.S. lawyer and pundit. source
• Nancy Grace, U.S. television host. source
• Mike Wallace, U.S. interviewer. source
• Laura Schlessinger, U.S. radio host and pundit. source

RELIGIOUS FIGURES

ESTJs are often also a good fit in an organized religious structure.

• Paul the Apostle, apostle of Christianity. source
• Billy Graham, U.S. evangelical minister. source
• Jerry Falwell, U.S. evangelical minister. source

ACTORS & ENTERTAINERS

ESTJs might not seem natural actors, but their organization and decisiveness can be useful in any career.

• Daisy Ridley, English actress. source
• Uma Thurman, U.S. actress. source
• Jackie Gleason, U.S. actor. source
• Raymond Burr, U.S. actor. source
• Alec Baldwin, U.S. actor. source
• Laura Linney, U.S. actress. source
• Lucy Liu, U.S. actress. source
• Drew Carey, U.S. actor and game show host. source
• Joan Rivers, U.S. comedian and talk show host. source
• John de Lancie, U.S. actor. source
• Courteney Cox, U.S. actress. source
• Jeri Ryan, U.S. actress. source
• Mickey Rourke, U.S. boxer and actor. source
• Bette Davis, U.S. actress. source
• Roger Ebert, U.S. movie reviewer. source
• Dr. Phil McGraw, U.S. television psychologist. source
• Vinnie Jones, English footballer and actor. source
• Jenny McCarthy, U.S. actress and activist. source
• Kelsey Grammer, U.S. actor. source
• Judith “Judge Judy” Sheindlin, U.S. television judge. source
• Marla Maples, U.S. actress. source

MUSIC

In the music business, ESTJs are more often found on the business side than the creative side.

• Trisha Yearwood, U.S. country musician. source
• Celine Dion, Canadian singer. source

AUTHORS

As organized thinkers, ESTJs are naturals at the discipline necessary to write regularly.

• Tom Clancy, U.S. author. source
• Ann Coulter, U.S. author and pundit. source
• Amy Chua, U.S. “tiger mother” and author. source
• E. L. James, U.S. author. source

ATHLETES

ESTJs are not always great team players, but they can be excellent coaches.

• Nolan Ryan, U.S. pitcher. source
• Josh Beckett, U.S. pitcher. source
• Pat Summitt, U.S. basketball coach. source
• John Smoltz, U.S. pitcher. source

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

And here are some people from the worlds of fiction who qualify as ESTJs!

• Donna Noble from Doctor Who. source
• The Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey. source
• Mrs. Patmore from Downton Abbey. source
• Robb Stark from Game of Thrones. source
• Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones. source
• Dwight Schrute from The Office. source
• Minerva McGonagall from the Harry Potter books. source
• Effie from The Hunger Games. source
• Admiral Bill Adama from Battlestar Galactica. source
• Boromir from The Lord of the Rings. source
• Bryan Mills from the Taken movies. source
• Statler and Waldofr from The Muppets. source
• Claire Dealing from Jurassic World. source
• Darth Vader from Star Wars. source
• Carl Grimes from The Walking Dead. source
• Georg von Trapp from The Sound of Music. source