In this work we study the history and development of the concept “personality”. It is shown that the components of the idea “personality” were based on one another historically: at first there was individuality, then-personality, after I. Kant there was personalization. Only after the European Reformation does the notion “personality” establish itself with its complete features. There is an independent existence of a person in it. A particular area is formed in anthropology – it’s called personology.