Architects

• Andres Alver
  Andres Alver
  Andres Alver is an Estonian architect.Born in Tartu, from 1961 to 1972, Alver studied in the 2nd Secondary School of Tartu...
  
   (born 1953)
• Dmitri Bruns
  Dmitri Bruns
  Dmitri Bruns, , is an Estonian architect and architecture theorist. 1960–1980 Bruns was the main architect of Tallinn.-External links:**...
  
   (born 1929)
• Karl Burman
  Karl Burman
  Karl Burman sen. was an Estonian architect and painter.In 1900 he attended the Stroganovi Art School in Moscow, and then between 1901 - 1902 he attended the Stieglitzi Art School in St. Petersburg. Then he studied architecture at the St...
  
   (1882–1965)
• Madis Eek
  Madis Eek
  Madis Eek is an Estonian architect.From 1973 to 1979 Madis Eek studied in the Secondary School of Music and from 1979 to 1984 in the 43rd Secondary School...
  
   (born 1966)
• Eugen Habermann
  Eugen Habermann
  Eugen Habermann was an Estonian architect.-Gallery:...
  
   (1884–1944)
• Georg Hellat
  Georg Hellat
  Georg Hellat was an Estonian architect.His most known masterpiece is the building of the of Estonian Students' Society in Tartu ....
  
   (1870–1943)
• Otto Pius Hippius
  Otto Pius Hippius
  Otto Pius Hippius was a Baltic German architect, particularly noted for his Estonian masterpieces....
  
   (1826–1883)
• Erich Jacoby
  Erich Jacoby
  Erich Roman Ludvig Jacoby was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. From 1905 to 1907 he studied at the Leibniz University of Hannover, in 1913 he graduated from the Riga Technical University...
  
   (1885–1941)
• Herbert Johanson
  Herbert Johanson
  Herbert Voldemar Johanson was an Estonian architect.His notable works include:*Building of the Parliament of Estonia, Riigikogu in Toompea Castle; 1920 with Eugen Habermann...
  
   (1884–1964)
• Peep Jänes
  Peep Jänes
  Peep Jänes is an Estonian architect.Most active in the 1970s and 1980s, his style of architecture can be catecorised as modernism. Jänes was one of the designers of the Pirita yachting center in Tallinn, which was built for the sailing regatta 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.-External links:*...
  
   (born 1936)
• Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974), (USA)
• Raine Karp
  Raine Karp
  Raine Karp is an Estonian architect.Beyond doubt, Karp has created the most bold examples of 1960s–1980s modernism in Estonia. Characterised by monumentalism, his designs often have a distinct Soviet feel to them...
  
   (born 1939)
• Alar Kotli
  Alar Kotli
  Alar Kotli was an Estonian architect. He studied sculpture at the art school Pallas in Tartu during 1922-1923 and mathematics at the University of Tartu...
  
   (1904–1963)
• Edgar-Johan Kuusik
  Edgar-Johan Kuusik
  Edgar Johan Kuusik was an Estonian architect and furniture and interior designer. His 1920s style can be described as a mix of baroque, traditional art and expressionism, which was characteristic to almost all architects of the young Republic of Estonia at that time...
  
   (1888–1974)
• Ernst Gustav Kühnert
  Ernst Gustav Kühnert
  Ernst Gustav Kühnert was an Estonian architect and art historian of Baltic German origin. He studied at the Riga Technical University from 1902 to 1905 and at the Techniche Hochschule Dresden from 1906 to 1908...
  
   (1885–1961)
• Vilen Künnapu
  Vilen Künnapu
  Vilen Künnapu is one of the most important Estonian architects of the last three decades, among the first postmodernist theoreticians and architects in the 1970s.He has worked on various buildings in Estonia and abroad....
  
   (born 1948)
• Leonhard Lapin
  Leonhard Lapin
  Leonhard Lapin is a versatile Estonian artist who has been active in fine art, art theory and architecture as well as in literature. He is considered one of Estonia's leading artists.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1947)
• Elmar Lohk
  Elmar Lohk
  Elmar Lohk was an Estonian architect. After spending his childhood in his birthplace and in Shanghai, he moved to Darmstadt in 1921, where he graduated from the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1925. After graduation he worked in Tallinn until 1943...
  
   (1901–1963)
• Arnold Matteus (1897–1986)
• Margit Mutso
  Margit Mutso
  Margit Mutso is a notable Estonian architect.Margit Mutso studied in the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR in the department of architecture. She graduated from the institute in 1989.From 1989 to 1990 Margit Mutso worked in the state design bureau Eesti Kommunaalprojekt...
  
   (born 1966)
• Robert Natus
  Robert Natus
  Robert Natus was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent.Born in Viljandi, Estonia, Natus studied in Tallinn and Riga . In 1939, Natus moved to Germany. His best known work is the current City Hall of Tallinn, built in 1932...
  
   (1890–1950)
• Ain Padrik (born 1947)
• Artur Perna (1881–1940)
• Mart Port (born 1922)
• Uno Prii
  Uno Prii
  Uno Prii was an Estonian-born Canadian architect. He designed approximately 250 buildings, many in Toronto, but also around southern Ontario and the United States....
  
   (1924–2000)
• Raivo Puusepp
  Raivo Puusepp
  Raivo Puusepp is an Estonian architect.His notable works include:*Main building of SEB in Tallinn*Tartu Department Store , Tartu*Solaris Center, Tallinn*WW Passage , Tallinn*Sikupilli Shopping Centre, Tallinn...
  
   (born 1960)
• Irina Raud (born 1945)
• Paul Luukas
• Jacques Rosenbaum
  Jacques Rosenbaum
  Jacques Rosenbaum was an Estonian architect of Baltic German descent. From 1904 to 1907 Rosenbaum was the city architect of Tartu. After that he worked in Tallinn....
  
   (1878–1943)
• Eugen Sacharias
  Eugen Sacharias
  Eugen Sacharias was an Estonian architect. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague from 1925 to 1931, after which he came to Tallinn to become one of the most important local designers of modern dwellings.His early-1930s creation based on the simple rules of functionalistic...
  
   (1906–2002)
• Henno Sepmann (1925–1985)
• Olev Siinmaa
  Olev Siinmaa
  Olev Siinmaa , was an Estonian architect who is perhaps best recalled for his work in the style coined "Pärnu Resort Functionalism"....
  
   (1881–1948)
• Anton Soans (1885–1966)
• Elmar Tampõld
  Elmar Tampõld
  Elmar Tampõld is a Estonian and Canadian architect and founder of an academic base for Estonian studies in Toronto.-Education:...
  
   (born 1920)

Business and politics

• Hardo Aasmäe
  Hardo Aasmäe
  Hardo Aasmäe is an Estonian politician and geographer.He was active in the Estonian People's Front, and was the first post-Soviet mayor of Tallinn, from 1990 to 1992....
  
   (born 1951), geographer, politician, encyclopedist
• Andrus Ansip
  Andrus Ansip
  Andrus Ansip is the current Prime Minister of Estonia, and chairman of the market liberal Estonian Reform Party .-Early life and career:...
  
   (born 1956), politician
• Jaan Anvelt
  Jaan Anvelt
  Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt (in Russian Ян Анвельт, also known by the pseudonyms Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak or Н...
  
   (1884–1937), politician
• Ado Birk (1883–1942), politician
• Ivi Eenmaa
  Ivi Eenmaa
  Ivi Eenmaa is an Estonian politician.She was the head of the Estonian National Library from 1993 to 1997. After this, she entered politics, becoming a member of the now defunct Estonian Coalition Party. From 1997 to 1999, she was the mayor of Tallinn...
  
   (born 1943), librarian and politician
• Kaarel Eenpalu
  Kaarel Eenpalu
  Kaarel Eenpalu was an Estonian journalist, politician and head of state.- Education :...
  
   (Karl Einbund, 1888–1942), politician
• Ene Ergma
  Ene Ergma
  Ene Ergma is an Estonian politician, a member of the Riigikogu , and scientist. She is a member of the political party Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica...
  
   (born 1944), politician
• Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
  Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
  Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie was a Swedish statesman and military man. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1647 and came to be the holder of three of the five offices counted as the Great Officers of the Realm, namely Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Chancellor and Lord High...
  
   (1622–1686), politician (Sweden
  Sweden
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
  
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• Toomas Hendrik Ilves
  Toomas Hendrik Ilves
  Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the fourth and current President of Estonia. He is a former diplomat and journalist, was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in the 1990s and later a member of the European Parliament...
  
   (born 1953), journalist, politician, president
• Ernst Jaakson
  Ernst Jaakson
  Ernst Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose unique contribution was to keep Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years.-Education:...
  
   (1905–1998), diplomat
• Steve Jurvetson
  Steve Jurvetson
  Steven T. "Steve" Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson . He was a Venture Capitalist investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana...
  
   (born 1967), businessman (USA)
• Siim Kallas
  Siim Kallas
  Siim Kallas is an Estonian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Transport. He is also one of five vice-presidents of the 27-member Barroso Commission...
  
   (born 1948), politician
• Carmen Kass
  Carmen Kass
  -Early life:Kass was born in Tallinn, Estonia and grew up in Mäo village, near Paide, the capital of Järva County. Kass, her sister and brother were raised only by their mother Koidu Põder.-Modeling:...
  
   (born 1978), supermodel, actress, politician
• Tunne Kelam
  Tunne Kelam
  Tunne-Väldo Kelam MEP is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Pro Patria Union , part of the European People's Party....
  
   (born 1936), politician
• Tõnis Kint
  Tõnis Kint
  Tõnis Kint was an Estonian politician. He served as "Prime Minister in duties of the President" from December 23, 1970 to March 1, 1990.From April 7, 1938 member of the Chamber of Deputies...
  
   (1896–1991), politician
• Mihkel Klaassen
  Mihkel Klaassen
  Mihkel Klaassen was a justice of the Supreme Court of Estonia since 1924.Klaassen was a member of the Electoral Committee that decided the Soviet-era appointment of Johannes Vares as Prime Minister by Konstantin Päts had been illegal and stated, that Jüri Uluots is Prime Minister acting as...
  
   (1880–1952), State judge
• August Koern
  August Koern
  August Koern was an Estonian statesman and diplomat. He was Estonian foreign minister in exile from March 1, 1964 to June 3, 1982....
  
   (1900–1989), politician and diplomat
• Mart Laar
  Mart Laar
  Mart Laar is an Estonian statesman, historian and a founding member of the Foundation for the Investigation of Communist Crimes. He was the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002, and is the leader of the conservative party Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica...
  
   (born 1960), politician, historian
• Rein Lang
  Rein Lang
  Rein Lang is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Reform Party since 1995, and a diplomat. He is currently serving as the Minister of Culture.- Personal life :...
  
   (born 1957), journalist, businessman, politician
• Robert Lepikson
  Robert Lepikson
  Robert Lepikson was an Estonian politician, businessman and rally driver.As a rally driver, he was the Estonian champion three times, winner of the Baltic Cup and was the head of the Estonian motosport league....
  
   (1952–2006), businessman, politician
• Peeter Lepp
  Peeter Lepp
  Peeter Lepp is an Estonian politician. From 1993 to 2002, he was a member of the Estonian Coalition Party. After its dissolution, he joined the Estonian Reform Party....
  
   (born 1943), politician
• Jürgen Ligi
  Jürgen Ligi
  Jürgen Ligi is an Estonian politician, a member of the liberal Reform Party.He is a long-time member of the Estonian parliament Riigikogu . For the last two years in the Riigikogu he served as the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Budget Control.From 2005 to 2007 Jürgen Ligi was Minister...
  
   (born 1959), politician
• Elmar Lipping
  Elmar Lipping
  Elmar Lipping was an Estonian statesman and soldier. He was Estonian foreign minister in exile from June 3, 1982 to June 20, 1990....
  
   (1906–1994), politician
• Hjalmar Mäe
  Hjalmar Mäe
  Hjalmar-Johannes Mäe was an Estonian politician....
  
   (1901–1978), politician
• Linnart Mäll
  Linnart Mäll
  Linnart Mäll was an Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician.- Biography :Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Mäll graduated from the University of Tartu in 1962 with a major in general history...
  
   (born 1938), orientalist, politician
• Harry Männil
  Harry Männil
  Harry Männil was an Estonian businessman, art collector, and cultural benefactor in several countries. In 1946, he moved to Venezuela, where he lived for the rest of his life. He was a successful businessman and part owner of ACO Group, a large Venezuelan automotive concern...
  
   (1920–2010), businessman, art collector
• Heinrich Mark
  Heinrich Mark
  Heinrich Mark was born on October 1, 1911, in Krootuse, Kõlleste Parish, now in Põlva County, Estonia. He died on August 2, 2004, in Stockholm, Sweden....
  
   (1911–2004), politician
• Jaan Manitski
  Jaan Manitski
  Jaan Manitski is an Estonian former politician, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.-Biography:Manistki was born in Viinistu, leaving with his family for Sweden the following year...
  
   (born 1942), businessman, politician
• Maret Maripuu
  Maret Maripuu
  Maret Maripuu is an Estonian politician, a member of the libertarian Reform Party.From April 2007 until February 2009 she served as Minister of Social Affairs. Previously, she was a member of the Riigikogu from 1999 to 2007, and was Vice President of the Riigikogu from 2006 to 2007...
  
   (born 1974), politician
• Lennart Meri
  Lennart Meri
  Lennart Georg Meri was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement.-Early life:...
  
   (1929–2006), writer, filmmaker, president
• Jüri Mõis
  Jüri Mõis
  Jüri Mõis is an Estonian politician and businessman, who was mayor of Tallinn between 1999 and 2001, and who was the Minister of Internal Affairs between March 25 and November 5, 1999. He is one of the three founders of Hansapank.-References:...
  
   (born 1956), businessman, politician
• Aarni Neuvonen
  Aarni Neuvonen
  Aarni Neuvonen, properly Vadim Rozenberg, also known under the aliases of Aarni Rozenberg and Vadim Petrov, is the largest ever perpetrator of employment fraud in Estonia...
  
   (20th century), employment fraudster
• Kristiina Ojuland
  Kristiina Ojuland
  Kristiina Ojuland was the foreign minister of Estonia from 2002 through 2005. In June 2004 she ran for the post of secretary-general of the Council of Europe, but was defeated, receiving 51 of 299 votes...
  
   (born 1966), politician
• Lembit Öpik
  Lembit Öpik
  Lembit Öpik is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Montgomeryshire in Wales from 1997 until he lost his seat in the 2010 General Election...
  
   (born 1965), politician (United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
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• Rein Otsason
  Rein Otsason
  Rein Otsason was an Estonian banker.-Biography:Rein Otsason grew up in Southern-Estonia. After obtaining secondary education he came to study in Tallinn and graduated in 1954 from Tallinn Polytechnical Institute as an economist...
  
   (1931–2004), economist, businessman
• Siiri Oviir
  Siiri Oviir
  Siiri Oviir is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Estonian Centre Party, part of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.-External links:*...
  
   (born 1947), politician
• Ivari Padar
  Ivari Padar
  Ivari Padar is an Estonian politician, former Minister of Finance and former chairman of the Estonian Social Democratic Party. He was Deputy Mayor of Võru from 1993 to 1994, Executive Chairman of the Võru Farmers Union from 1994 to 1995, and Assistant to the Chancellor at the Finance Ministry from...
  
   (born 1965), politician
• Tõnis Palts
  Tõnis Palts
  Tõnis Palts is an Estonian politician and former mayor of Tallinn.- References :...
  
   (born 1953), politician, businessman
• Sir Arvi Parbo
  Arvi Parbo
  Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo AC is a business executive who was concurrently chairman of three of Australia's largest companies....
  
   (born 1926), businessman (Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
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• Juhan Parts
  Juhan Parts
  Juhan Parts is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia from 2003 to 2005. He was chairman of the Res Publica Party for a time. Since 5 April 2007 he is the Minister of Economy and Communication in Andrus Ansip's second government...
  
   (born 1966), politician
• Keit Pentus
  Keit Pentus
  Keit Pentus is an Estonian politician, vice-chairwoman of the biggest parliament party Reform Party and former chairwoman of its parliamentary faction...
  
   (born 1976), politician
• Hanno Pevkur
  Hanno Pevkur
  Hanno Pevkur is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Reform Party.He graduated in 2002 with a BA degree from the law faculty of the University of Tartu....
  
   (born 1977), politician
• Jüri Pihl
  Jüri Pihl
  Jüri Pihl is an Estonian politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party.From 1993 to 2003 he served as the General Director of Kaitsepolitsei, the central security institution in Estonia...
  
   (born 1954), politician
• Konstantin Päts
  Konstantin Päts
  Konstantin Päts VR I/1 and III/1 was the most influential politician of interwar Estonia. He was one of the first Estonians to become active in politics and started an almost 40-year political rivalry with Jaan Tõnisson, first through journalism with his newspaper Teataja, later through politics...
  
   (1874–1956), journalist, politician, former president
• Jaan Poska
  Jaan Poska
  Jaan Poska VR III/1 was an Estonian barrister and politician....
  
   (1866–1920), diplomat, politician
• Valdo Randpere
  Valdo Randpere
  Valdo Randpere is an Estonian musician and businessman.He graduated from University of Tartu with Law degree in 1982 ....
  
   (born 1958), businessman, musician
• August Rei
  August Rei
  August Rei VR III/1 was an Estonian Social Democratic politician. He was born in Pilistvere, Kõo Parish, Viljandi County.- Education :...
  
   (1886–1963), politician, diplomat
• Alfred Rosenberg
  Alfred Rosenberg
  ' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...
  
   (1893–1946), politician, ideologist (Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
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• Arnold Rüütel
  Arnold Rüütel
  Arnold Rüütel OIH was the third President of the Republic of Estonia from October 8, 2001 to October 9, 2006. He was the second President since Estonia regained its independence in 1991....
  
   (born 1928), agricultural manager, politician, president
• Edgar V. Saks
  Edgar V. Saks
  Edgar Valter Saks was an Estonian statesman, amateur historian and author. He was Estonian Minister of Public Education in exile from May 8, 1971 until his death...
  
   (1910–1984), statesman, historian and author
• Edgar Savisaar
  Edgar Savisaar
  Edgar Savisaar , is an Estonian politician, one of the founding members of Popular Front of Estonia and the leader of the Centre Party. He has served as the acting Prime Minister of Estonia, Minister of Internal affairs and Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications...
  
   (born 1950), politician
• Johannes Sikkar
  Johannes Sikkar
  Johannes Sikkar was first head of the Estonian government in exile as Acting Prime Minister.Sikkar served in the Estonian War of Independence against post-revolutionary Soviet Russia on armoured train as a voluntary and an officer, he was granted a farm, which he held until 1944. He finished...
  
   (1897–1960), politician
• Jaanus Silla
  Jaanus Silla
  Jaanus Silla is an Estonian film director.-Education:Silla, a native of Estonia, graduated from Brigham Young University in 1997 with a B.A. in Film Directing...
  
   (born 1969), motion picture industry promoter
• Artur Sirk
  Artur Sirk
  Artur Sirk was an Estonian political and military figure. A veteran of the country's struggle for independence Sirk later became a leading figure within the right-wing Vaps Movement and an outspoken opponent of the government-Early years:A native of rural Järvamaa, Sirk came from a humble...
  
   (1900–1937), officer, lawyer, politician
• Otto Strandman
  Otto Strandman
  Otto August Strandman VR III/1 was an Estonian politician, who served as Prime Minister and State Elder of Estonia . He was one of the leaders of the centre-left Estonian Labour Party, that saw its biggest support after the 1919 and 1920 elections...
  
   (1875–1941), politician
• Rein Taagepera
  Rein Taagepera
  Rein Taagepera is an Estonian political scientist and politician.- Education :Born in Tartu, Estonia, Taagepera fled from occupied Estonia in 1944. Taagepera graduated from high school in Marrakech, Morocco and then studied physics in Canada and the United States. He received a Ph.D. from the...
  
   (born 1933), political scientist, politician
• Jaak Tamm
  Jaak Tamm
  Jaak Tamm was an Estonian politician and business man.From 1990 to 1991, he was the minister of industry and energetics in Edgar Savisaar's government. He was a member of the Estonian Coalition Party....
  
   (1950–1999), politician
• Alexei Tammet-Romanov
  Alexei Tammet-Romanov
  Alexei Tammet-Romanov was the name assumed by Ernest Veermann , an Estonian immigrant to Canada, when he claimed to be the last heir to the throne of Russia, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia. For many years prior to this, Veerman had been known as Heino Tammet, a name he first used when in...
  
   (died 1977), Romanov impostor
• Andres Tarand
  Andres Tarand
  Andres Tarand , is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2009. Tarand also served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995.Born in Tallinn, Tarand graduated from the...
  
   (born 1940), politician
• Indrek Tarand
  Indrek Tarand
  Indrek Tarand MEP is an Estonian politician, reserve officer, civil servant, journalist and historian.Tarand has served as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Estonia and as the Secretary General of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.-Biography:Tarand is the eldest son of Andres Tarand...
  
   (born 1964), politician, historian, journalist
• Enn Tarto
  Enn Tarto
  Enn Tarto is an Estonian politician who was a leading dissident during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. He was imprisoned from 1956 to 1960, 1962 to 1967, and again from 1983 to 1988 for anti-Soviet activity....
  
   (born 1938), dissident, politician
• Otto Tief
  Otto Tief
  Otto Tief was a lawyer, an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and a politician. He was Acting Prime Minister of the last government of Estonia before Soviet troops occupied Estonia in 1944...
  
   (1889–1976), military officer, politician
• Jaan Tõnisson
  Jaan Tõnisson
  Jaan Tõnisson VR I/3, II/3 and III/1 was an Estonian statesman, serving as the Prime Minister of Estonia twice during 1919 to 1920 and as the Foreign Minister of Estonia from 1931 to 1932.-Early life:...
  
   (1868–1941?/unknown), journalist, politician
• Jüri Uluots
  Jüri Uluots
  Jüri Uluots was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu....
  
   (1890–1945), lawyer, politician
• Aleksander Warma
  Aleksander Warma
  Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer, diplomat and painter....
  
   (1890–1970), navy officer, politician
• Priit Vilba
  Priit Vilba
  Priit Vilba is an Estonian politician and businessman who was mayor of Tallinn for two weeks in 1996. In 2001, while deputy mayor of Tallinn, Vilba was accused of allocating city contracts to his son....
  
   (born 1953), businessman, politician
• Jüri Vilms
  Jüri Vilms
  Jüri Vilms was a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee and the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia. Empowered by Maapäev the Salvation Committee issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence on February 24, 1918 in the middle of a political power vacuum created by the...
  
   (1889–1918), lawyer, politician
• Toomas Vilosius
  Toomas Vilosius
  Toomas Vilosius is an Estonian politician and a former Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia. He is currently the communications manager of Silja Line.-References:...
  
   (born 1951), physucuan, politician
• Tiit Vähi
  Tiit Vähi
  Tiit Vähi is an Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia from 1995 to 1997, and acting Prime Minister for several months during 1992 under the transitional government....
  
   (born 1947), businessman, politician

Education and science

• Julius Aamisepp (1883–1950), agricultural scientist
• Johannes Aavik
  Johannes Aavik
  Johannes Aavik was an Estonian philologist and Fennophile who played a significant role in the modernization and development of the Estonian language.-Education and career:...
  
   (1880–1973), linguist
• Jüri Allik
  Jüri Allik
  Jüri Allik , is an Estonian psychologist.Allik holds Ph.D. degrees in psychology both from the University of Moscow, Russia and University of Tampere, Finland...
  
   (born 1949), psychologist
• Paul Ariste
  Paul Ariste
  Paul Ariste was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages , Yiddish and Baltic Romani language. He was born as Paul Berg, but in 1927 Estonized his name to Ariste. He graduated from the University of Tartu and subsequently worked with it...
  
   (1905–1990), linguist
• Karl Ernst von Baer
  Karl Ernst von Baer
  Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a...
  
   (1792–1876), biologist (ethnic German)
• Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist (ethnic German)
• Georg Dehio
  Georg Dehio
  Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio , was a Baltic German art historian ....
  
   (1850–1932), art historian (ethnic German)
• Jaan Einasto
  Jaan Einasto
  Jaan Einasto is an eminent Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the cellular structure of the Universe....
  
   (born 1929), astrophysicist
• Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz  (1793–1831), entomologist (ethnic German)
• Bengt Gottfried Forselius
  Bengt Gottfried Forselius
  Bengt Gottfried Forselius was a founder of public education in Estonia, author of the first ABC-book in the Estonian language , and creator of a spelling system which made the teaching and learning of Estonian easier...
  
   (c. 1660–1688), founder of public education
• Johannes Hint (1914–1985), physicist, inventor
• Karl Abraham Hunnius (1797–1851), medical doctor (ethnic German)
• Jakob Hurt
  Jakob Hurt
  Jakob Hurt was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologist, and linguist. With respect to the latter, he is perhaps best known for his dissertation on "pure" -ne stem nouns...
  
   (1839–1906), linguist, collector of folklore
• Edgar Kant (1902–1978), geographer
• Andres Kasekamp
  Andres Kasekamp
  Andres Ilmar Kasekamp is the director of Estonian Foreign Policy Institute and Professor of Baltic Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia ....
  
   (born 1966), historian
• Rainer Kattel
  Rainer Kattel
  Rainer Kattel is an Estonian academic and science administrator; he is an expert on innovation as well as political philosophy....
  
   (born 1974), innovation scholar, political philosopher
• Juri Kaude (born 1921), radiologist
• Paul Kogerman
  Paul Kogerman
  In 1938–1939 Kogerman was ex officio member of the National Council . From October 1939 until the Soviet occupation of Estonia on 21 June 1940 Kogerman served as Minister of Public Education....
  
   (1891–1951), chemist
• Wolfgang Köhler
  Wolfgang Köhler
  Wolfgang Köhler was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer, and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology.-Early life:...
  
   (1887–1967), psychologist (ethnic German)
• Ilmar Koppel (born 1940), chemist
• Nikolai Köstner (1889–1959), economist, politician
• Eerik Kumari
  Eerik Kumari
  Eerik Kumari was a doctor of biology, the founder of ornithology and nature conservation in Estonia, the learned director of the Institute of Zoology and Botany at the Estonian Academy of Sciences during 1952-1977...
  
   (1912–1984), ornithologist
• Heinrich Lenz
  Heinrich Lenz
  Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz was a Russian physicist of Baltic German ethnicity. He is most noted for formulating Lenz's law in electrodynamics in 1833....
  
   (1804–1865), physicist (ethnic German)
• Elmar Leppik (1898–1978), biologist
• Mihhail Lotman
  Mihhail Lotman
  Mihhail Lotman is an Estonian literature researcher and politician, son of Yuri Lotman and Zara Mints.Mihhail Lotman's research fields include general semiotics and semiotics of culture as well as text theory and history of Russian literature. Lotman was a member of the board of Russian Cultural...
  
   (born 1952), semiotician (Jewish)
• Yuri Lotman
  Yuri Lotman
  Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman – a prominent Soviet literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences...
  
   (1922–1993), semiotician (Jewish)
• Richard Karlovich Maack (1825–1886), geographer, botanist, Siberian explorer, educator
• Sulev Mäeltsemees
  Sulev Mäeltsemees
  Sulev Mäeltsemees is an eminent Estonian Public Administration and Local Government scholar and generally held to be the father of Municipal Autonomy in Estonia....
  
   (born 1947), public administration theorist
• Friedrich Martens
  Friedrich Martens
  Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, also known as Fyodor Fyodorovich Martens in Russian and Frédéric Frommhold Martens in French was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of international law...
  
   (1845–1909), diplomat, international lawyer
• Viktor Masing
  Viktor Masing
  Viktor Masing was an Estonian botanist and ecologist. He was born in Tartu. He became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1993.He was a specialist in telmatology, and an organizer of wetland protection....
  
   (1925–2001), ecologist
• Harri Moora
  Harri Moora
  Harri Moora was an Estonian archaeologist. He was a recipient of the national Cross of Liberty.In 1925, he graduated from the University of Tartu. Between 1930-1942, he was a museum director. He worked at Tartu University during World War II but was arrested in 1944; he resumed his post at the...
  
   (1900–1968), archaeologist
• Ragnar Nurkse
  Ragnar Nurkse
  Ragnar Nurkse was an Estonian international economist and policy maker mainly in the fields of international finance and economic development.-Life:...
  
   (1907–1959), economist
• Julia Nosov (born 1982), economist
• Pent Nurmekund (1905–1997), linguist
• Ernst Öpik
  Ernst Öpik
  Ernst Julius Öpik was a noted Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.-Education:...
  
   (1893–1985), astronomer
• Karl Orviku (1903–1981), geologist
• Jaak Panksepp
  Jaak Panksepp
  Jaak Panksepp is an Estonian-born American psychologist, a psychobiologist, a neuroscientist, the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine,...
  
   (born 1943), psychologist, ethologist, neuroscientist
• Erast Parmasto
  Erast Parmasto
  Erast Parmasto is a noted Estonian mycologist, bioscientist and botanist . He became a member of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany in 1950 and served as its director from 1985-1990...
  
   (born 1928), mycologist
• Georg Friedrich Parrot
  Georg Friedrich Parrot
  Georg Friedrich Parrot was an Livonian scientist. He was the first rector of the Imperial University of Dorpat founded in 1802.-Biography:Georges-Frédéric Parrot was born in Montbéliard, France...
  
   (1767–1852)
• Johann Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), physician, explorer
• Johannes Piiper (1882–1973), zoologist
• Jaan Puhvel
  Jaan Puhvel
  Jaan Puhvel is an Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist. As a student of Georges Dumezil, he also specializes in comparative mythology....
  
   (born 1932), linguist
• Ludvig Puusepp
  Ludvig Puusepp
  Ludvig Puusepp , was an Estonian surgeon and researcher and the world's first professor of neurosurgery.-Early life:...
  
   (1875–1942), medical scientist, neurosurgeon
• Gustav Ränk (1902–1998), ethnologist
• Anto Raukas (born 1935), geologist
• Georg Wilhelm Richmann
  Georg Wilhelm Richmann
  Georg Wilhelm Richmann was a German physicist who lived in Russia....
  
   (1711–1753), physicist
• Hillar M. Rootare
  Hillar Rootare
  Hillar M. Rootare , was a physical chemist and materials scientist best known for his work in the development of mercury porosimetry, high pressure liquid chromatography, and formulation of the Rootare-Prenzlow Equation.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1928), chemist
• Mart Saarma (born 1949), molecular biologist
• Thomas Seebeck (1770–1831), physicist
• Otto Wilhelm von Struve
  Otto Wilhelm von Struve
  Otto Wilhelm von Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve...
  
   (1819–1905), astronomer (ethnic German)
• Svante Pääbo
  Svante Pääbo
  Svante Pääbo is a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm to Sune Bergström, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, and his mother, Estonian Karin Pääbo.He earned his PhD from Uppsala...
  
   (born 1955), paleogeneticist (Sweden, Germany)
• Eduard von Toll  (1858–1902?/unknown), geologist, Arctic explorer
• Artur Tsobanjan (born 1982) physicist
• Endel Tulving
  Endel Tulving
  Endel Tulving is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research on human memory has influenced generations of psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians...
  
   (born 1927), psychologist
• Jakob von Uexküll
  Jakob von Uexküll
  Jakob Johann von Uexküll was a Estonian biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok...
  
   (1864–1944), biologist, semiotician (ethnic German)
• Voldemar Vaga (1899–1999), art historian
• Lauri Vaska
  Lauri Vaska
  Lauri Vaska is an Estonian-born chemist who has made noteworthy contributions to organometallic chemistry....
  
   (born 1925), chemist (USA)
• Mihkel Veske
  Mihkel Veske
  Mihkel Veske is an Estonian poet and linguist.- Life :Mihkel Veske was born on a farm in the Veske farm, Holstre in northern Livonia. He attended the village school in Pullerits, the parish school in Paistu and secondary school in Tartu. Between 1866 to 1867 he attended the mission school in Leipzig...
  
   (1843–1890), linguist, poet
• Gustav Vilbaste
  Gustav Vilbaste
  Gustav Vilbaste was an Estonian botanist and ethnobotanist from Tallinn.He wrote the first Estonian-language keybooks on Estonian flora.He was an honorary member of the Estonian Naturalists' Society....
  
   (1885–1967), botanist
• Edgar de Wahl
  Edgar de Wahl
  Edgar von Wahl or Edgar de Wahl was a teacher and creator of the language Occidental...
  
   (Edgar von Wahl, 1867–1948), teacher, creator of Interlingue

Literature and journalism

• Valmar Adams (1899–1993), poet, literary scholar
• Artur Adson
  Artur Adson
  Artur Adson was an Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic.-Early years:Artur Adson attended school in Tartu, Sänna and Võru. After graduating he first studied surveying in Pskov. In 1925-26, he studied literature at the University of Tartu...
  
   (1889–1977), poet
• Artur Alliksaar
  Artur Alliksaar
  - Biography :Alliksaar attended an elementary school in Tartu in 1931. In 1937 he was accepted to Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, after which he worked at railways like his father for a short period of time in 1942. In that same year he started to study law in the University of Tartu.1943–1944 he served...
  
   (1923–1966), poet
• Betti Alver
  Betti Alver
  Betti Alver was the pseudonym of Elisabet Lepik-Talvik, one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.- Writing :She began as a prose writer...
  
   (1906–1989), poet
• Johannes Barbarus (1890–1946), poet
• Nikolai Baturin
  Nikolai Baturin
  Nikolai Baturin is an award-winning novelist and playwright in Estonia.-Biography and career:Baturin was born in Suislepa, Tarvastu Parish, Viljandi County. His father was a fisherman. After attending a high school, military service took him for five years to the Caspian oil-fields and the...
  
   (born 1936), writer
• Vladimir Beekman
  Vladimir Beekman
  Vladimir Beekman was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.-References:...
  
   (born 1929), poet, novelist, translator
• Eduard Bornhöhe
  Eduard Bornhöhe
  Eduard Bornhöhe , born Eduard Brunberg , was an Estonian writer.Bornhöhe is generally considered a pioneer of the genre of Estonian historical novel, as a lion's share of his creations consist of romanticism-influenced historical adventure stories.- Bibliography :*1880 Tasuja *1890 Villu võitlused...
  
   (1862–1923), writer
• Ernst Enno
  Ernst Enno
  Ernst Enno was an Estonian poet and writer.- Life :Ernst Enno was born the son of a farmer Prits Enno. He spent his childhood on Soosaar farm near Rõngu. At the age of eight, he attended the parish school of Lapetukme and then the prestigious Hugo Treffner Gymnasium and at the secondary school in...
  
   (1875–1934), poet
• Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
  Friedrich Robert Faehlmann
  Friedrich Robert Faehlmann was an Estonian philologist and an Estophile active in Livonia, Russian Empire...
  
   (1798–1850), writer, physician
• August Gailit
  August Gailit
  August Gailit was an Estonian writer. -Life:Georg August Gailit was born in Sangaste Parish, Valgamaa, Estonia, the son of a carpenter and grew up on a farm in Laatre . From 1899 he attended schools in the parish and the town of Valga from 1905, then from 1907 a municipal school in Tartu...
  
   (1891–1960), writer
• Ado Grenzstein (1849–1916), journalist
• Anna Haava (1864–1957), poetess
• Gert Helbemäe (1913–1974), writer
• Sass Henno
  Sass Henno
  Sass Henno is an Estonian writer.He attended Miina Härma Secondary Grammar School in Tartu between 1989-2001. 2001-2003 he studied computer graphics and advertising in Tartu Art College, then film and video directing in the Tallinn University between 2003-2005...
  
   (born 1982), writer
• Aadu Hint (1910–1989), writer
• August Wilhelm Hupel
  August Wilhelm Hupel
  August Wilhelm Hupel was a Baltic German publicist, estophile and linguist....
  
   (1737–1819), ecclesiastic writer, ethnologist
• Ivar Ivask
  Ivar Ivask
  Ivar Vidrik Ivask was Estonian poet and literary scholar.He escaped in 1944 from Estonia to Germany and lived from 1949 onwards in the USA and from 1991 in Ireland....
  
   (1927–1992), literary scholar, critic, poet
• Carl Robert Jakobson
  Carl Robert Jakobson
  Carl Robert Jakobson was an Estonian writer, politician and teacher active in Livonia, Russian Empire. He was one of the most important persons of Estonian national awakening in the second half of the 19th century.Between 1860 and 1880, the Governorate of Livonia was led by a moderate...
  
   (1841–1882), journalist, political activist
• Johann Voldemar Jannsen
  Johann Voldemar Jannsen
  Johann Voldemar Jannsen was an Estonian journalist and poet active in Livonia....
  
   (1819–1890), journalist, political activist
• Fred Jüssi
  Fred Jüssi
  Fred Jüssi is an Estonian biologist, nature writer and photographer.Jüssi was born on Aruba, where his father worked for a Venezuelan oil company. His family returned to Estonia and settled in Tallinn when Jüssi was 3 years old...
  
   (born 1935), journalist, champion of wildlife
• Ain Kaalep (born 1926), poet
• Bernard Kangro
  Bernard Kangro
  Bernard Kangro was an Estonian writer and poet.-Education:...
  
   (1910–1994), poet, writer, journalist
• Kalju Kangur (1925–1989), poet
• Jaan Kaplinski
  Jaan Kaplinski
  Jaan Kaplinski is an Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic. Kaplinski is known for his independent mind, focus on global issues and support for left-wing/liberal thinking...
  
   (born 1941), writer, journalist, politician
• Doris Kareva (born 1958), poet
• Raimond Kaugver (1926–1992), writer
• Kaur Kender
  Kaur Kender
  Kaur Kender, is an Estonian author and entrepreneur.An advertising executive by profession, Kender entered the Estonian literary scene in 1998 with his debut novel "Independence Day"...
  
   (born 1971), writer
• Enn Kippel (1901–1942), writer
• August Kitzberg (1855–1927), writer
• Albert Kivikas
  Albert Kivikas
  Albert Kivikas was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book "Names in Marble" , the subject of which is the Estonian War of Independence.- Life :...
  
   (1898–1978), writer
• Andrus Kivirähk
  Andrus Kivirähk
  Andrus Kivirähk is an Estonian writer.By 2004, 25,000 copies of his book Rehepapp ehk November had been sold, making him the most popular 21st century Estonian writer...
  
   (born 1970), writer
• Sven Kivisildnik (born 1963), writer, journalist
• Johann Koell (died 1540), ecclesiastic writer
• Lydia Koidula
  Lydia Koidula
  Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen, , known after her pen name Lydia Koidula was an Estonian poet. Her sobriquet means ‘Lydia of the Dawn’ in Estonian. It was given her by the writer Carl Robert Jakobson...
  
   (Lydia Jannsen, 1843–1886), poetess
• Madis Kõiv
  Madis Kõiv
  Madis Kõiv is an Estonian writer and physicist.-Education:Kõiv attended school in Tartu after the second World War, graduating in the early 1950s with a degree in nuclear physics. Kõiv worked as a scientist and lecturer until 1991....
  
   (born 1929), writer, physicist
• Marcus Kolga (born 1973), political activist, filmmaker, composer, journalist
• Raimond Kolk (1924–1992), poet, writer
• Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
  Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
  Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald was an Estonian writer, who is considered to be the father of the national literature for the country.-Life:Friedrich's parents were serfs at the Jõepere estate, Virumaa. His father worked as a granary keeper and his mother was a chambermaid...
  
   (1803–1882), physician, writer, author of national epic
• Jaan Kross
  Jaan Kross
  -Early life:Born in Tallinn, Estonia, studied Jacob Westholm´s Grammar school, Kross attended the University of Tartu and graduated from its School of Law...
  
   (1920–2007), writer
• Friedrich Kuhlbars (1841–1924), writer
• Ilmar Külvet (1920–2002), writer, journalist, playwright, radio journalist
• Juhan Kunder (1852–1888), writer
• Kalle Kurg (born 1942), poet, writer, critic, translator
• Toomas Kuter (born 1965), writer and singer
• Paul Kuusberg
  Paul Kuusberg
  Paul Kuusberg was an Estonian writer. Novellas by him include “Roostetanud kastekann” and “Võõras või õige mees” , which won an award in Estonia....
  
   (1916–2003), writer
• Kalle Lasn
  Kalle Lasn
  Kalle Lasn is an Estonian Canadian author, magazine editor and activist. Near the end of World War II his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent his childhood in a German refugee camp. He was then resettled in Australia. In the 1960s, he founded a market research company in Tokyo, and in 1970, moved...
  
   (born 1942), founder of Adbusters magazine
• Eha Lattemäe (born 1922), poet
• Kalju Lepik
  Kalju Lepik
  Kalju Lepik was an Estonian poet who lived as an exile for most of his life....
  
   (1920–1999), poet
• Juhan Liiv
  Juhan Liiv
  Juhan Liiv is one of Estonia's most famous poets.-Childhood and education:...
  
   (1864–1913), poet, writer
• Martin Lipp
  Martin Lipp
  Martin Lipp was an Estonian poet. He is best known as the author of the poem "The Estonian Flag", which was set to the music of the then young composer Enn Võrk...
  
   (1854–1923), poet
• Viivi Luik (born 1946), poet
• Oskar Luts
  Oskar Luts
  -Biography:Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in central Estonia, at that time in the government of Livonia . He attended Änkküla village school in 1894. He went to Palamuse Parish parish school in Jõgeva County, attending from 1895–1899. From 1899–1902 he studied at the Tartu...
  
   (1887–1953), writer
• Iko Maran (1915–1999), writer
• Otto Wilhelm Masing
  Otto Wilhelm Masing
  Otto Wilhelm Masing was an early Livonian Estophile and a major advocate of peasant rights, especially regarding education....
  
   (1763–1862), pastor, philologist, journalist
• Uku Masing
  Uku Masing
  Uku Masing was an Estonian philosopher, translator, theologist and folklorist. He developed Estonian analytical philosophy. Masing also wrote poetry, mostly on religious issues...
  
   (1909–1985), poet, theologian, ethnologist
• Lennart Meri
  Lennart Meri
  Lennart Georg Meri was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement.-Early life:...
  
   (1929–2006), writer, politician
• Kersti Merilaas
  Kersti Merilaas
  Kersti Merilaas was an Estonian poet and translator. In addition, she wrote poems and prose for children and plays.-Life and work:...
  
   (1913–1986), poetess, playwright
• Mait Metsanurk
  Mait Metsanurk
  Mait Metsanurk , was an Estonian writer who led the neo-realist school of Estonian literature.- Early years :...
  
   (1879–1957), writer
• Felix Moor (1903–1955), radio journalist
• Mihkel Mutt
  Mihkel Mutt
  Mihkel Mutt is an Estonian writer and arts journalist.-Life:Mihkel Mutt was the son of the famous translator and English philologist Oleg Mutt. He studied Estonian philology at the University of Tartu from 1971 to 1976. After completing his studies, he was an editor at a publishing house and for...
  
   (born 1953), writer, critic
• August Mälk
  August Mälk
  -Life:August Mälk was born on October 4, 1900, in Lümanda Parish in the village of Koovi , located on the west coast of the island of Saaremaa, in modern-day Estonia ....
  
   (1900–1987), writer
• Aleksander Müller (born 1947), poet, musician
• Ellen Niit (born 1928), children's book author
• Tõnu Õnnepalu
  Tõnu Õnnepalu
  Tõnu Õnnepalu , also known by the pen names Emil Tode and Anton Nigov, is an Estonian poet and author.Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. He began his writing career as a poet in 1985 and has published three collections of his works...
  
   (aka Emil Tode, born 1962), writer
• Julius Oro (Julius Oengo; 1901–1941), poet
• Voldemar Panso (1920–1977)
• Valdo Pant (1928–1976), radio and TV journalist
• Jüri Parijõgi (1892–1941), writer
• Anti Pathique (Anti Nõmmsalu; born 1966), writer, musician, computer designer
• Juhan Peegel (born 1919), writer
• Aino Pervik (born 1932), children's book author
• Kristjan Jaak Peterson
  Kristjan Jaak Peterson
  Kristjan Jaak Peterson also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His literary career was cut short by the tuberculosis that killed him at the age of 21. His birthday on...
  
   (1801–1822), poet
• Linnar Priimägi (born 1954)
• Lilli Promet
  Lilli Promet
  Lilli Promet was an Estonian writer. During the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the 1960s, she was a member of the Communist Party.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1922), writer
• Hans Pöögelmann (1875–1938), poet
• Kerttu Rakke (born 1971), writer
• Eno Raud
  Eno Raud
  Eno Raud was an Estonian children's books author. He graduated from university with a course in Estonian language study in 1952. From 1952 to 1956 he worked in the Estonian National Library. From 1956 to 1965 he worked in the Estonian national publishing association. After that he retired and...
  
   (1928–1996), children's book author
• Mart Raud
  Mart Raud
  Mart Raud was an Estonian poet, playwright and writer.-History:Mart Raud attended the village school in Heimtali and the parish schools in Paistu and Viljandi. Later he attended the University of Tartu studying literature. In the 1920s, Raud joined the literary movement Arbujad...
  
   (1903–1980), writer
• Hugo Raudsepp
  Hugo Raudsepp
  Hugo Raudsepp was an influential and prolific Estonian playwright. In 1951 he was deported to the Irkutsk region by the Soviet authorities, where he died.-Life:...
  
   (1883–1952), playwright
• Karl Ristikivi
  Karl Ristikivi
  Karl Ristikivi was an Estonian writer. He is among the best Estonian writers for his historical novels...
  
   (1912–1977), writer, poet
• Richard Roht (1891–1950), writer
• Jürgen Rooste, poet, journalist
• Aarne Ruben
  Aarne Ruben
  Aarne Ruben is an Estonian writer.He wrote some novels, mainly based on Estonian history in the 20th century, his most known being The Volta Works Whistles Mournfully, , about Russian Revolution of 1905, Lenin and dadaist movement in Zürich.He was awarded the first prize of the novel competition...
  
   (born 1971), writer
• Paul-Eerik Rummo
  Paul-Eerik Rummo
  Paul-Eerik Rummo is an Estonian poet and politician and a former Estonian Minister of Culture and Education, a former Estonian Minister of Population Affairs....
  
   (born 1942), poet, politician
• Hando Runnel (born 1938), poet
• Balthasar Russow
  Balthasar Russow
  Balthasar Russow was one of the most important Livonian and Estonian chroniclers.Russow was born in Reval . He was educated at an academy in Stettin in Pomerania...
  
   (c. 1536–1600), chronicler
• Peeter Sauter
  Peeter Sauter
  Peeter Sauter is an Estonian author and actor.-Literature:Sauter made his literary debut in 1988 in the Estonian magazine Vikerkaar . He sent in a brief prose piece for one-time publication...
  
   (born 1962), writer
• Johannes Semper
  Johannes Semper
  Johannes Semper was an Estonian writer and translator.A student and later a prominent scholar at the University of Tartu, he was briefly nominated as Minister for Education of the Estonian SSR when the country was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940.He wrote the lyrics of the Anthem of Estonian...
  
   (1892–1970), writer, poet
• Juhan Smuul
  Juhan Smuul
  Juhan Smuul was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul.-Career:...
  
   (1922–1971), writer, poet
• Heinrich Stahl (c. 1600–1657)
• Gustav Suits
  Gustav Suits
  Gustav Suits is considered one of the greatest Estonian poets. He was also an early leader of the literary movement group Noor-Eesti .- Childhood and Education :...
  
   (1883–1956), poet
• Karl Eduard Sööt (1862–1950), author, poet
• Heiti Talvik
  Heiti Talvik
  Heiti Talvik was an Estonian poet.- Life and literary career :...
  
   (1904–1947), poet
• Harald Tammer
  Harald Tammer
  Harald Tammer was a journalist, athlete and weightlifting World Champion and Olympic bronze medalist from Tallinn, Estonia.-Career:...
  
   (1899–1942), journalist
• Anton Hansen Tammsaare
  Anton Hansen Tammsaare
  Anton Hansen Tammsaare , born Anton Hansen, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel"....
  
   (1878–1940), writer
• Maniakkide Tänav (Agur Karukäpp; born 1976), writer, poet, musician
• Tiia Toomet (born 1947), writer
• Mats Traat
  Mats Traat
  Mats Traat is a prolific Estonian poet and author.-Literature:Traat is frequently compared to Jaan Kross. However, unlike Kross, who writes about individuals influenced from beyond Estonian culture, Traat writes about the indigenous Estonian population...
  
   (born 1936), author, poet
• Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky , also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1963), writer, musician, film director
• Friedebert Tuglas
  Friedebert Tuglas
  Friedebert Tuglas was an Estonian writer and critic who introduced Impressionism and Symbolism to Estonian literature. Persecuted under the czar, he became an acknowledged representative of Estonian literature in the Soviet era.-Biography:The son of a carpenter, Tuglas studied at the Hugo Treffner...
  
   (1886–1971), writer, critic, literary scholar
• Marie Under
  Marie Under
  Marie Under was one of the greatest Estonian poets.-Early life:...
  
   (1883–1980), poetess
• Mati Unt
  Mati Unt
  Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director....
  
   (1944–2005), writer, stage director
• Peet Vallak (1893–1959), writer
• Edgar Valter
  Edgar Valter
  Edgar Valter was an Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity . His most famous creation is the .- Life :...
  
   (1929–2006), writer, artist
• Arvo Valton
  Arvo Valton
  Arvo Vallikivi , commonly known under the pen name of Arvo Valton, is an Estonian writer known for a number of books and, among other things, the script for Viimne reliikvia, the highly successful movie adaptation of Eduard Bornhöhe's Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad...
  
   (born 1935), writer
• Priit Vesilind
  Priit Vesilind
  Priit Juho Vesilind is an Estonian-born American senior writer and photojournalist of National Geographic magazine and an author of nonfiction....
  
   (born 1943), journalist, photographer, author (USA)
• Enn Vetemaa
  Enn Vetemaa
  Enn Vetemaa is an Estonian writer sometimes referred as a "forgotten classic" as well as "the unofficial master of the Estonian Modernist short novel".-Biography:...
  
   (born 1936), writer
• Bernhard Viiding (1932–2001), poet & publicist
• Juhan Viiding
  Juhan Viiding
  Juhan Viiding , also known under the pseudonym of Jüri Üdi was an Estonian poet and actor.-Childhood, education, and family:Juhan Viiding was born June 1, 1948 in Tallinn to Linda and Paul Viiding...
  
   (1948–1995), poet, actor
• Paul Viiding
  Paul Viiding
  Paul Viiding was an Estonian poet, author and literary critic.Born in Valga, Estonia, he graduated with a degree in mathematics in Tartu before pursuing a career as an author and poet. He was a member of the influential group of Estonian poets brought together in 1938 by literary scholar Ants Oras...
  
   (1904–1962), poet
• Eduard Vilde
  Eduard Vilde
  Eduard Vilde was an Estonian writer and a pioneer of critical realism in Estonian literature.-Works:* Musta mantliga mees...
  
   (1865–1933), writer, journalist
• Heiki Vilep
  Heiki Vilep
  Heiki Vilep is an Estonian writer.- Books :* Under unconscious – 2001* Hello! – 2002* The Monsters of the Closet Door – 2003* My song – 2003* Flying Apple Tree – 2003...
  
   (born 1960), writer
• Henrik Visnapuu
  Henrik Visnapuu
  Henrik Visnapuu was a well known Estonian poet and dramatist.-Life:Henrik Visnapuu first attended the village school in Reola and college in Sipe and the municipal school in Tartu...
  
   (1890–1951), poet, journalist
• Gero von Wilpert
  Gero von Wilpert
  Professor Dr. Gero von Wilpert was a German author and professor for German Literature at the University of Sydney. Wilpert was born in Tartu , Estonia. Like all Baltic Germans, he was forced to leave Estonia after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the takeover of the country by the Soviet Union...
  
   (1933–2009), writer
• Wimberg
  Jaak Urmet
  Jaak Urmet is an Estonian writer.Jaak Urmet studied Estonian philology and history at the Tallinn Pedagogical University and from 2002 to 2004 literary theory , graduated as M.A...
  
  (Jaak Urmet; born 1979), journalist, poet
• Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki
  Hella Wuolijoki was a Finnish writer of Estonian origin, known for her Niskavuori series.-Life & career:Wuolijoki was born in Helme, Estonia....
  
   (1886–1954), writer, politician (Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
  )

Military and seafaring

• Avdy Andresson
  Avdy Andresson
  Avdy Andresson was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973 until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces from 14 October 1975.- Biography :...
  
   (1899–1990), politician
• Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
  Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
  Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen was an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, who ultimately rose to the rank of Admiral...
  
   (1778–1852), geographer, navigator, admiral
• Alexander von Benckendorff
  Alexander von Benckendorff
  Count Alexander von Benckendorff, was a Russian Infantry General and statesman, Adjutant General of the H. I. M. Retinue and a commander in the Patriotic War of 1812 best remembered for having established the Gendarmes in Russia....
  
   (1783–1844), general, politician
• Konstantin von Benckendorff
  Konstantin von Benckendorff
  Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat. His brother Alexander von Benckendorff was also a general and statesman, and his sister Dorothea von Lieven was a political force famous at London St. Petersburg, and Paris....
  
   (1785–1828), general, diplomat
• Herbert Brede
  Herbert Brede
  Herbert Brede was an Estonian soldier and general.He fought in World War I as an officer of the Imperial Russian Army against the Central Powers. After the first world war he fought against the Red Army in the Estonian war of independence. After Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union Herbert...
  
   (1888–1942), general
• Ivar Brok
  Ivar Brok
  Senior Warrant Officer Ivar Brok was a member of the Estonian Ground Force Estonian Afghanistan Contingent support unit NSE-5 depot group chief who was killed in an accident in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2008.On May 23, 2008 OR-9C Ivar Brok, 30, was performing military...
  
   (1977–2008), Estonian Army, killed in action Afghanistan
• Aleksander Einseln
  Aleksander Einseln
  Aleksander Einseln is a former commander of the Estonian Defence Forces. He held that position from 4 May 1993 to 4 December 1995.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1931), general, politician
• Jacob De la Gardie
  Jacob De la Gardie
  Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire....
  
   (1583–1652), officer, statesman
• Otto Heinze
  Otto Heinze
  Otto Heinze VR I/2, VR II/3 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1877–1968), general
• Nikolai Helk
  Nikolai Helk
  Nikolai Helk was an Estonian Major General Judge Advocate and President of the Supreme Military Tribunal between 1935 to 1940. He was executed by the Soviet occupation forces on May 14th, 1941....
  
   (1885–1942), general
• Arre Illenzeer (1976–2004), Estonian Army, Killed in action Iraq
• Aleksander Jaakson
  Aleksander Jaakson
  Aleksander Jaakson was an Estonian Major General and the Estonian Minister of Education between 1936 to 1939 and Chief of the General Staff of the Estonian Army between 1939 to 1940...
  
   (1892–1942), general, statesman
• Martin Jervan
  Martin Jervan
  Martin Jervan was an Estonian Major General and medical doctor. On 8 March 1941 Jervan was arrested, deported and subsequently executed in Chelyabinsk prison camp.-References:...
  
   (1891–1942), general
• Gustav Jonson (1880–1942), general
• Hans Kaljurand (1917–1951), guerrilla commander
• Jako Karuks (1974–2007), Estonian Army, killed in action Afghanistan
• August Kasekamp (1889–1942), general (:et:August Kasekamp)
• Hugo Kauler (1893–1942), general
• Johannes Kert (born 1959), general
• Otto von Kotzebue
  Otto von Kotzebue
  Otto von Kotzebue was a Baltic German navigator in Russian service....
  
   (1787–1846), geographer, navigator
• Tarmo Kõuts
  Tarmo Kõuts
  Tarmo Kõuts is an Estonian politician and former commander-in-chief of the Estonian Defence Forces....
  
   (born 1953), admiral, politician
• Adam Johann von Krusenstern
  Adam Johann von Krusenstern
  Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern , was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.- Life :...
  
   (1770–1846), geographer, navigator
• Jaan Kruus (1884–1942), general
• Gustav Kunnos (1878–1926), general
• Julius Kuperjanov
  Julius Kuperjanov
  Julius Kuperjanov VR II/2 and II/3 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and commanding officer of the Kuperjanov Partisan Battalion.-Life:Kuperjanov was a schoolteacher in the village of Kambja...
  
   (1894–1919), officer
• Ants Kurvits (1887–1943), general
• Ants Laaneots
  Ants Laaneots
  Kindral Ants Laaneots, in Kilingi-Nõmme in Pärnumaa, is the current Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces. General Laaneots previously served as the Commandant of the Estonian National Defence College from 2001 to 2006...
  
   (born 1948), lieutenant general
• Johan Laidoner
  Johan Laidoner
  Johan Laidoner was a seminal figure of Estonian history between the world wars. His highest position was Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army in 1918–1920, 1924–1925, and 1934–1940.-Education:Laidoner was born in Viiratsi , Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire...
  
   (1884–1953), general, politician
• Andres Larka
  Andres Larka
  Andres Larka VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence and a politician....
  
   (1879–1942), general, politician
• Dmitri Lebedev (1872–1935), general
• Hans Leesment
  Hans Leesment
  Hans Leesment was an Estonian General. From 1919 up until 1940, he was the president of the Estonian Red Cross. On February 24, 1933, he was promoted to the rank of Major General.-External links:*...
  
   (1873–1944), general
• Lembitu of Lehola
  Lembitu of Lehola
  Lembitu was an ancient Estonian elder of Sakala County and military leader in the struggle against conquest of the Estonian lands by the German Livonian Brothers of the Sword at the beginning of the 13th century...
  
   (died 1217), tribal elder, military commander
• Paul Lill (1882–1942), general, politician
• Andres Nuiamäe
  Andres Nuiamäe
  Andres Nuiamäe was a Junior Sergeant of the Estonian Ground Forces, assigned to the ESTPLA-8 unit in Baghdad, Iraq.- Biography :...
  
   (1982–2004), first Estonian soldier Killed in action
  Killed in action
  Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
  
   in Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
  
• Karl Parts
  Karl Parts
  Karl Parts VR I/1, VR II/2, VR II/3 was an Estonia military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1886–1941), officer
• Johan Pitka
  Johan Pitka
  Johan Pitka, VR I/1, KCMG was a famous Estonian military commander from the Estonian War of Independence until World War II.-Early life:...
  
   (1872–1944?/unknown), admiral, politician
• Ernst Põdder
  Ernst Põdder
  Ernst Põdder VR I/1 was a famous Estonian military commander in the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1879–1932), general
• Viktor Puskar
  Viktor Puskar
  Viktor Puskar VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1889–1943), officer
• Alfons Rebane
  Alfons Rebane
  Alfons Vilhelm Robert Rebane, known simply as Alfons Rebane was an Estonian military commander. He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer in the course of the Second World War, serving in various German military units against the armed forces of the Soviet Union.After World War...
  
   (1908–1976), officer, intelligence operative
• Nikolai Reek
  Nikolai Reek
  Nikolai Reek VR I/2, VR II/2, VR II/3 was Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1890–1942), general
• Harald Riipalu
  Harald Riipalu
  Harald Riipalu was an Estonian military commander and one of four commanders who earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross when fighting in the German army in World War II.-Early life:Harald Riipalu was born in Saint Petersburg where his family was lessee in a manor...
  
   (1912–1961), officer
• Paul Maitla
  Paul Maitla
  Paul Maitla was an Estonian military commander. He is one of the four Estonian soldiers who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
  
   (1913–1945), officer
• Harald Nugiseks
  Harald Nugiseks
  Harald Nugiseks is a former SS-Unterscharführer in World War II, who served voluntarily in the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS of the Waffen SS. Nugiseks is also one of the four Estonian soldiers who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.Nugiseks was born in Särevere, Järvamaa,...
  
   (born 1921), officer
• August Sabbe (1909–1978), guerrilla
• Ivo Schenkenberg (c. 1550–1579), guerrilla commander
• Aleksander Silberg (1869–1926), general
• Jaan Soots
  Jaan Soots
  Jaan Soots VR I/1 was a famous Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1880–1942), general
• Allain Tikko
  Allain Tikko
  Allain Tikko was an Estonian warrant officer in charge of a jagu in ESTCOY-8, which had been posted in Afghanistan as a part of United Kingdom's military operations, itself a part of NATO continuing operations in Afghanistan.- Service :Vbl Tikko began military service in 1998 and has served in the...
  
   (1979–2009), Estonian Army, killed in action Afghanistan
• Karl Toll (1777–1842), general
• Aleksander Tõnisson
  Aleksander Tõnisson
  Aleksander Tõnisson VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence....
  
   (1875–1941), general
• Kalle Torn  (1983–2007), Estonian Army, killed in action Afghanistan
• Juhan Tõrvand (1883–1942), general
• August Traksmaa (1893–1942), general, historian
• Jaan Usin
  Jaan Usin
  Jaan Usin VR II/3 was an Estonian Navy commander.He served during World War I in the Imperial Russian Navy as an ensign. In 1918, he entered in the Estonian service and participated in the Estonian War of Liberation. Since 1920, Jaan Usin was commander of the Peipsi flotilla in Tartu...
  
   (1887–1941), navy officer, commander of the Peipsi flotilla
• Kustas Utuste (1884–1941), officer, neopaganist
• Enn Uuetoa ("Kihnu Jõnn", 1848–1913), sailing ship captain, folktale hero
• Vesse (died 1344), tribal elder, military commander
• Ferdinand von Wrangel
  Ferdinand von Wrangel
  Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel – May 25 , 1870) was a Russian explorer and seaman, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society...
  
   (1796–1870), Arctic
  Arctic
  The Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
  
   explorer

Music

• Evald Aav
  Evald Aav
  Evald Aav was an Estonian composer born in Tallinn, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire. He studied music composition there with Artur Kapp and wrote primarily vocal music to words in the Estonian language. In 1928 he composed the first national Estonian opera, Vikerlased . The opera premiered...
  
   (1900–1939), composer, choir conductor
• Juhan Aavik
  Juhan Aavik
  Juhan Aavik was an Estonian composer.Aavik studied music composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory...
  
   (1884–1982), composer, conductor
• Urmas Alender
  Urmas Alender
  Urmas Alender was an Estonian singer and musician who is possibly best recalled as the vocalist of such popular Estonian bands as Ruja and Propeller....
  
   (1953–1994), pop musician
• Heino Eller
  Heino Eller
  Heino Eller was an Estonian composer and composition teacher.Eller was born in Tartu, where he took private lessons in violin and music theory, played in several ensembles and orchestras, and performed as violin soloist. In 1907 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study violin. From...
  
   (1887–1970), composer
• Olari Elts
  Olari Elts
  Olari Elts is an Estonian Conductor. He was the principal conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2006...
  
   (born 1971), conductor
• Gustav Ernesaks
  Gustav Ernesaks
  Gustav Ernesaks was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor....
  
   (1908–1993), composer, conductor
• Eda-Ines Etti
  Eda-Ines Etti
  Eda-Ines Etti is a singer and celebrity in Estonia, also known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000. Under her abbreviated stage name Ines, she was Estonia's representative for the contest in Sweden. Her song "Once in a Lifetime" received fourth place in the contest...
  
   ("Ines", born 1981), pop musician
• Miina Härma
  Miina Härma
  Miina Härma was a widely-recognised Estonian composer. She was the second Estonian second musician with higher education....
  
   (1864–1941), composer, conductor
• Maarja-Liis Ilus
  Maarja-Liis Ilus
  Maarja-Liis Ilus, sometimes better known by her performing name Maarja is a pop musician. Maarja has achieved some chart success in a number of countries across Europe and Asia...
  
   ("Maarja", born 1980), pop musician
• Johann Voldemar Jannsen
  Johann Voldemar Jannsen
  Johann Voldemar Jannsen was an Estonian journalist and poet active in Livonia....
  
   (1819–1890), conductor, journalist
• Rainer Jancis (1969–), composer, musician
• Neeme Järvi
  Neeme Järvi
  Neeme Järvi is an Estonian-born conductor.-Early life:Järvi studied music first in Tallinn, and later in Leningrad at the Leningrad Conservatory under Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Nikolai Rabinovich, among others...
  
   (born 1937), conductor
• Paavo Järvi
  Paavo Järvi
  Paavo Järvi is an Estonian-American conductor, and current Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris.Järvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme Järvi and Liilia Järvi. His siblings, Kristjan Järvi and Maarika Järvi, are also musicians...
  
   (born 1962), conductor
• Piret Järvis
  Piret Järvis
  Piret Järvis is an Estonian singer, guitarist and songwriter of the popular girl group Vanilla Ninja and an indiegroup Disko4000....
  
   (born 1984), rock musician
• Raimo Kangro (1949–2001), composer
• Artur Kapp
  Artur Kapp
  Artur Kapp was an Estonian composer.Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician...
  
   (1878–1952), composer
• Eugen Kapp
  Eugen Kapp
  Eugen Kapp was an Estonian composer and music educator. Characterized by simple harmonies, march rhythms and an appealing melodic style, his music is reflective upon the musical ideas favoured by the Stalinist regime of the 1940s and 1950s...
  
    (1908–1996), composer
• Tõnu Kaljuste
  Tõnu Kaljuste
  Tõnu Kaljuste is an Estonian conductor.Born in Tallinn, Kaljuste is the child of Heino Kaljuste , an Estonian choral conductor, and Lia Kaljuste, a radio journalist. Tõnu sang in his father's choirs as a child, and graduated from the Tallinn Music High School in 1971...
  
   (born 1953), conductor
• Maarja Kivi (born 1986), rock/metal musician
• Triinu Kivilaan
  Triinu Kivilaan
  Triinu Kivilaan is an Estonian vocalist and former model, best known as a former member of the popular girl group Vanilla Ninja. She had been modelling for several years when she replaced Maarja Kivi in the group in 2004, having met the other members of the group a year earlier...
  
   (born 1989), model, pop/rock musician
• Eri Klas
  Eri Klas
  Eri Klas, is an Estonian conductor.Klas is of Jewish ancestry. Klas graduated as an opera and concert conductor in both Tallinn and Leningrad , beginning his conducting career at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow...
  
   (born 1939), conductor (Jewish)
• Kerli Kõiv
  Kerli Kõiv
  Kerli Kõiv , better known mononymously as Kerli, is an Estonian recording artist.She was signed to Island Def Jam Music Group in 2006 by LA Reid and in 2008, she released her debut album, Love Is Dead which charted at 126 on the Billboard 200 in July 2008 and at 2 on the Billboard Heatseekers...
  
   ("Kerli", born 1987), musician, song writer
• Cyrillus Kreek
  Cyrillus Kreek
  Cyrillus Kreek was an Estonian composer.Kreek studied trombone and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1916 in the years immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, then worked as music teacher first in his native Haapsalu , at the Tartu Music College and later...
  
   (1889–1962), composer
• Lenna Kuurmaa
  Lenna Kuurmaa
  -External links:...
  
   (born 1985), rock musician
• Paul Lepik (born 1968), pop musician, singer, songwriter
• Heli Lääts (born 1932), singer
• Käbi Laretei
  Käbi Laretei
  Käbi Alma Laretei is an Estonian-born Swedish concert pianist.Her father was a diplomat in the service of the Republic of Estonia; when the Soviet Union invaded the country he and his family fled to Sweden. Laretei has had a long and distinguished career as a pianist and in the 1960s...
  
   (born 1922), pianist, composer, writer
• Artur Lemba
  Artur Lemba
  Artur Lemba was an Estonian composer and piano teacher, and one of the most important figures in Estonian classical music. Artur and his older brother Theodor were the first professional pianists in Estonia to give concerts abroad. Artur's 1905 opera Sabina was the first opera composed by an...
  
   (1885–1963), pianist, composer
• Ott Lepland
  Ott Lepland
  Ott Lepland is an Estonian singer, who is best known as the winner of the third season of Eesti otsib superstaari.Lepland has sung since he was a child. He released four albums with children songs in 1995 and 1996. At the moment Lepland is studying at Georg Ots' Tallinn Music School pop and jazz...
  
   (born 1987), singer, actor
• Eero Liives (1892–1978), composer
• Ivo Linna
  Ivo Linna
  Ivo Linna is an Estonian singer.He represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with the song "Kaelakee Hääl" which would go onto finish 5th at the contest, held in Oslo that year....
  
   (born 1949), singer, pop musician
• Mihkel Lüdig
  Mihkel Lüdig
  Mihkel Lüdig was an Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs. Lüdig is considered one of the major organisers of large-scale musical events in 20th century Estonia...
  
   (1880–1958) composer, organist, choir conductor
• Ester Mägi
  Ester Mägi
  Ester Mägi is an Estonian composer, widely regarded as the First Lady of Estonian Music.Much of her work consists of choral and chamber music, but her few symphonic pieces are also highly regarded. She trained initially under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatory, then from 1951-54 at the Moscow...
  
   (born 1922), composer
• Tõnis Mägi
  Tõnis Mägi
  Tõnis Mägi is an Estonian singer, guitarist, composer and actor. He is one of the most influential and remarkable names in the Estonian rock music for the past 40 years....
  
   (born 1948), singer, pop musician
• Alo Mattiisen
  Alo Mattiisen
  Alo Mattiisen was an Estonian composer most known for his patriotic melodies, several of which became a staple of the Singing Revolution.- Education :...
  
   (1961–1996), composer
• Elma Miller (born 1954), composer (Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  )
• Sandra Nurmsalu
  Sandra Nurmsalu
  Urban Symphony is an Estonian music group. It represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Rändajad", finishing in 6th place with 129 points...
  
   (born 1988), singer
• Birgit Õigemeel
  Birgit Õigemeel
  Birgit Õigemeel is an Estonian singer. In 2007 she also played the role of Sylvia in the stage play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" at the Estonian theatre Theatrum.Birgit is also the first winner of Estonian Idol Eesti otsib superstaari.In 2007, at...
  
   (born 1988), singer
• Georg Ots
  Georg Ots
  Georg Ots, People's Artist of the USSR was an Estonian opera singer...
  
   (1920–1975), opera singer
• Tanel Padar
  Tanel Padar
  Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer. He is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999...
  
   (born 1980), pop musician
• Anti Pathique (born 1966), guitarist, writer
• Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
  
   (born 1935), composer
• Annely Peebo
  Annely Peebo
  Annely Peebo is a mezzo-soprano from Estonia. She gained a diploma for choral conducting and completed vocal studies in song and opera. She studied at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Vienna in Vienna, Austria...
  
   (born 1971), opera singer
• Jaan Rääts
  Jaan Rääts
  Jaan Rääts is an Estonian composer who worked extensively in Estonian language film scores of the 1960s and 1970s....
  
   (born 1932), composer
• Kalle Randalu
  Kalle Randalu
  Kalle Randalu is an Estonian pianist.Randalu was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Vlasenko. In 1981-82 Randalu was awarded two competition prizes: he shared the VII Tchaikovsky Competition's 4th prize with Dmitri Gaiduk; and shared the VIII Schumann Competition's 3rd prize with Balázs...
  
   (born 1955), pianist
• Rein Rannap
  Rein Rannap
  Rein Rannap is an Estonian composer and pianist.Since 1968, Rannap has given numerous public piano performances.Rannap has been active in management and composition for Ruja, Noor-Eesti and Hõim.- Pianist career :...
  
   (born 1953), composer, pianist
• Vardo Rumessen
  Vardo Rumessen
  Vardo Rumessen is an Estonian pianist, musicologist and politician for Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica best known for his work on Eduard Tubin's music.-References:* Association of Estonian Professional Musicians.-External links:*...
  
   (born 1942), pianist, politician
• Mart Saar
  Mart Saar
  Mart Saar was an Estonian composer, organist and collector of folk songs.-Childhood:Saar was born at the small borough of Hüpassaare, Estonia, then part of the Livonian Governorate, Russian Empire, to a family of forest keepers. He received his education in the village school at Kaansoo and the...
  
   (1882–1963), composer
• Evelin Samuel
  Evelin Samuel
  -Career:Evelin Samuel has been singing since childhood and was even recorded by the studios of the Estonian Radio at a very early age. In late 1980s, Evelin joined the children's musical theatre Colombina whom she performed with at the 1992 Roskilde Festival in Denmark.In 1993, she finished 4th at...
  
   (born 1975), pop musician
• Mart Sander
  Mart Sander
  Martin Laurent Sander is an Estonian singer, actor, director, author and television host.-Life and career:...
  
   (born 1967), singer, actor
• Urmas Sisask
  Urmas Sisask
  Urmas Sisask is an Estonian composer.One of the major inspirations for his music is astronomy.Based on the trajectories of the planets in the solar system, he created the "planetal scale", a mode consisting of the Musical notes C#, D, F#, G#, and A...
  
   (born 1960), composer
• Katrin Siska
  Katrin Siska
  Katrin Siska is an Estonian musician and member of the Estonian pop-rock band Vanilla Ninja.Alongside her musical commitments, Siska has also been studying finance and accounting at a vocational school and international relations and diplomacy in Tallinn...
  
   (born 1983), rock musician
• Eduard Sõrmus (1878–1940), violinist
• Lepo Sumera
  Lepo Sumera
  Lepo Sumera was an Estonian composer and teacher. Considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo...
  
   (1950–2000), composer
• Eino Tamberg
  Eino Tamberg
  Eino Tamberg was an Estonian composer.Tamberg was born in Tallinn. He studied music composition with Eugen Kapp at the Tallinn Conservatory, graduating in 1953...
  
   (born 1930), composer
• Kalmer Tennosaar
  Kalmer Tennosaar
  Kalmer Tennosaar was Estonian singer and Eesti Televisioon journalist....
  
   (1928–2004), singer, TV journalist
• Rudolf Tobias
  Rudolf Tobias
  Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory...
  
   (1873–1918), composer
• Koit Toome
  Koit Toome
  Koit Toome is an Estonian singer and musical actor.-Career:In late 1994 the highly successful pop duo Code One consisting of Koit Toome and Sirli Hiius was formed by the producer Mikk Targo...
  
   (born 1979), pop musician
• Veljo Tormis
  Veljo Tormis
  Veljo Tormis is an Estonian composer, regarded to be one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most...
  
   (born 1930), composer
• Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky , also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1963), singer, composer, writer
• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
  
   (1905–1982), composer
• Erkki-Sven Tüür
  Erkki-Sven Tüür
  Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer.Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984...
  
   (born 1959), composer
• Raimond Valgre
  Raimond Valgre
  Raimond Valgre was an Estonian composer and musician, whose songs have become some of the most well-known in Estonia. During World War II, he was a member of the orchestra of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps and, as a result of his service on the Eastern Front he became an alcoholic after the war...
  
   (1913–1949), composer
• Anne Veski
  Anne Veski
  Anne Veski is an Estonian pop singer who has recorded music in both her native language as well as Russian, and Polish.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1956), pop musician

Performing arts

• Argo Aadli
  Argo Aadli
  Argo Aadli is an Estonian theatre and film actor. He graduated from the Higher Theatre School of the Estonian Academy of Music in 2002. He has worked as an actor in Tallinn City Theatre where he has performed at least ten productions to date, notably the character of Zahhar in the Anton Chekhov...
  
  , actor (born 1980)
• Ants Eskola
  Ants Eskola
  Ants Eskola was an Estonian actor and singer. He appeared in 25 films from 1930 to 1979.-External links:* On this website it's possible to listen to various Estonian singers from 1930s, including Ants Eskola....
  
   (1908–1989), actor
• Ita Ever
  Ita Ever
  Ita Ever is an Estonian film, radio, theater and television actress.Ita Ever began her career in 1953 as a stage actress and has appeared in numerous Estonian and Russian film productions...
  
   (born 1931), actress
• Jüri Järvet
  Jüri Järvet
  Jüri Järvet was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration . His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938.Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr...
  
   (1919–1995), actor
• Carmen Kass
  Carmen Kass
  -Early life:Kass was born in Tallinn, Estonia and grew up in Mäo village, near Paide, the capital of Järva County. Kass, her sister and brother were raised only by their mother Koidu Põder.-Modeling:...
  
   (born 1978), supermodel
• Miliza Korjus
  Miliza Korjus
  Miliza Elizabeth Korjus was an Estonian coloratura soprano opera singer, who later appeared in Hollywood films.-Early life:...
  
   (1909–1980), opera singer, film actress
• Tiiu Kuik
  Tiiu Kuik
  -Early life:Born in Tallinn, Estonia, Kuik was discovered at age 13 in an Estonian supermarket by model scout Paolo Moglia. She was then sent to Japan for modeling work, and after that, to Italy...
  
   (born 1987), model
• Konstantin Märska
  Konstantin Märska
  Konstantin Märska was an Estonian cinematographer.Märska is buried at the Rahumäe cemetery in Tallinn.-External links:...
  
   (1896–1951), cinematographer
• Marko Matvere
  Marko Matvere
  Marko Matvere is an Estonian actor. He was the front actor of the Tallinn City Theatre since graduating from the Higher Theatre School of the Estonian Academy of Music in 1990, but was to go freelance in 2004. Matvere is one of the most famous and expensive Estonian actor. He made his first movie...
  
   (born 1968), actor
• Mikk Mikiver
  Mikk Mikiver
  Mikk Mikiver was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor and theater director....
  
   (1937–2006), stage director, actor
• Ornella Muti
  Ornella Muti
  Ornella Muti is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Russian mother. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Leningrad , Russia, to Estonia...
  
   (born 1955), film actress (Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  )
• Priit Pärn
  Priit Pärn
  Priit Pärn is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals....
  
   (born 1946), animated film maker, graphic artist
• Enn Reitel
  Enn Reitel
  Enn Reitel is a Scottish actor and impressionist who specialises in voice work.- Early life :Reitel's family arrived in Scotland as refugees from Estonia, German Empire...
  
   (born 1950), film actor (UK)
• Tanel Toom
  Tanel Toom
  Tanel Toom is an Estonian Oscar nominated director and screenwriter.Tanel Toom studied filmmaking at the Tallinn University, graduating with a BA in 2005. After that, he worked as a director for commercials and as a first assistant director. In 2008 he completed his fourth short film, The Second...
  
   (born 1982), Oscar-nominated film director and screenwriter
• Mena Suvari
  Mena Suvari
  Mena Alexandra Suvari is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. Shortly after beginning her career as a model, she appeared in guest roles on 1990's television shows such as Boy Meets World and High Incident...
  
  (born 1979), actress (USA)

Religion

• Herman (Aav)
  Herman (Aav)
  Herman was an Estonian Orthodox clergyman who served from 1925 to 1960 as Archbishop of the Finnish Orthodox Church....
  
   (1878–1961), head of Finnish Orthodox Church
  Finnish Orthodox Church
  The Finnish Orthodox Church is an autonomous Orthodox archdiocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Church has a legal position as a national church in the country, along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland....
  
  
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr
  Jaan Kiivit, Jr
  Jaan Kiivit, Jr. was the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia from 1994 until 2005....
  
   (1940–2005), archbishop
• Juhan Leinberg
  Juhan Leinberg
  Juhan Leinberg , also known as prophet Maltsvet, was a founder of a religious sect named after him in Estonia....
  
   (1812–1885), founder of a religious sect (the Maltsvetians)
• Kuno Pajula
  Kuno Pajula
  Kuno Pajula was the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia from 1987 until 1994 and is now Archbishop emeritus.- Links :*...
  
   (born 1924), archbishop
• Andres Põder
  Andres Põder
  Andres Põder is the current Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia. He was elected in November 2004 and took office in February 2005. The Archbishop's See is located at St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn.-References:...
  
   (born 1949), archbishop
• Alexey Ridiger
  Patriarch Alexius II
  Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church....
  
   (Patriarch Alexius II, 1929–2008), head of Orthodox Church (Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  )

Sport

• Moonika Aava
  Moonika Aava
  Moonika Aava is a female javelin thrower from Estonia. Her personal best was 61.42 metres achieved on 2 August 2004, in her home country's capital Tallinn. This is the current Estonian record....
  
   (born 1979), javelin thrower
• Aleksander Aberg
  Aleksander Aberg
  Aleksander Richard "Leks" Aberg was a famous Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling World Champion of the early 20th century...
  
   (1881–1920), wrestler
• Friedrich Amelung
  Friedrich Amelung
  Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung was a Baltic German chess player, endgame composer, and journalist.Amelung was born at Võisiku manor in Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire . He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen, Gustav Neumann, Carl Mayet, Emil Schallopp, Andreas Ascharin,...
  
   (1842–1909), chess player
• Maret Ani
  Maret Ani
  Maret Ani is an Estonian tennis player. At the start of 2006, she was the top-ranked player in Estonia, before losing that spot to Kaia Kanepi....
  
   (born 1982), tennis player
• Ants Antson
  Ants Antson
  Ants Antson is a former Estonian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union. He was born in Tallinn, Estonia.Ants Antson trained at the Kalev Voluntary Sports Society...
  
   (born 1938), speedskater, Olympic medalist
• Marko Asmer
  Marko Asmer
  Marko Asmer is an Estonian racing driver, whose career in single seater junior formula is notable for his British Formula Three Championship title in 2007. Asmer is also the first Estonian to test a Formula One car, having tested for the Williams BMW team in 2003 after just half a season of car...
  
   (born 1984), racing driver
• Lauri Aus
  Lauri Aus
  Lauri Aus was an Estonian professional cyclist, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. He became a professional in 1995 and rode for several French teams...
  
   (1970–2003), cyclist
• Aleksei Budõlin
  Aleksei Budõlin
  Aleksei Budõlin is an Estonian judoka. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Middleweight category, together with Nuno Delgado of Portugal.-References:* on JudoInside.com*...
  
   (born 1976), judoka, Olympic medalist
• Toomas Edur (born 1954, NHL hockey player
• Jaan Ehlvest
  Jaan Ehlvest
  Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 is a chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987 and was named Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989...
  
   (born 1962), chess player
• Eduard Ellman-Eelma
  Eduard Ellman-Eelma
  Eduard Ellman-Eelma was an Estonian footballer - one of the most famous before World War II. He played 58 times for Estonia national football team scoring 21 goals. He debuted on 23 July 1921, against Sweden. He participated in Summer Olympics in Paris 1924. He spent most of his playing career at...
  
   (1902–1943), football player
• Gunnar Friedemann
  Gunnar Friedemann
  -Biography:Friedemann played several times in Estonian championships at Tallinn. In 1932, he tied for 3rd-4th with Johannes Türn . In 1933, he won the 5th EST–ch. In 1934, he took 3rd, behind Ilmar Raud and Paul Felix Schmidt, at the 6th EST–ch. In 1935, he took 2nd, behind Paul Keres, at the 7th...
  
   (1909–1943), chess player
• Jüri Jaanson
  Jüri Jaanson
  Jüri Jaanson is the most successful Estonian rower of all time and the winner of five medals at Rowing World Championships. He became World Champion in Tasmania 1990 in the single sculls event. 14 years later, at age 38 he won an Olympic silver medal in the single sculls event at the 2004 Summer...
  
   (born 1965), rower, Olympic medalist
• Georg Hackenschmidt
  Georg Hackenschmidt
  Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt was an early 20th-century Estonian strongman and professional wrestler, and the first free-style heavyweight champion of the world. He launched his professional career in Russia and lived most of his life in London, England, where he gained the nickname of 'The...
  
   (1878–1968), wrestler
• Kaido Höövelson ("Baruto Kaito"; born 1984), sumo wrestler
• Kaia Kanepi
  Kaia Kanepi
  Kaia Kanepi is an Estonian professional tennis player. Her career-high ranking is world no. 16 reached on 14 February 2011....
  
   (born 1985), tennis player
• Gerd Kanter
  Gerd Kanter
  Gerd Kanter is an Estonian discus thrower. He was the 2007 World Champion in the event and won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
   (born 1979), discus thrower, Olympic medalist
• Osvald Käpp
  Osvald Käpp
  Osvald Käpp was an Estonian wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics....
  
   (1905–1995), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Paul Keres
  Paul Keres
  Paul Keres , was an Estonian chess grandmaster, and a renowned chess writer. He was among the world's top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s....
  
   (1916–1975), chess player
• Lionel Kieseritzky
  Lionel Kieseritzky
  Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky was a 19th-century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named "The Immortal Game".-Early life:...
  
   (1806–1853), chess player
• Jaan Kikkas
  Jaan Kikkas
  Jaan Kikkas was a weightlifter and Olympic bronze medalist from Valga, Estonia. He won bronze medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France in the middleweight class....
  
   (1892–1944), weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Jaan Kirsipuu
  Jaan Kirsipuu
  Jaan Kirsipuu is an Estonian road bicycle racer, living in Estonia. Kirsipuu initially retired at the end of the 2006, but participated in the 2007 Estonian championship, becoming time trial champion for the sixth time. In 2008 he was the manager of Latvian UCI Continental cycling team Rietumu...
  
   (born 1969), cyclist
• Martin Klein
  Martin Klein (wrestler)
  Martin Klein was an Estonian wrestler who competed for the Russian Empire and took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He won the silver medal in the middleweight class...
  
   (1884–1947), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Aleksander Klumberg (1899–1958), decathlete, Olympic medalist
• Anton Koolmann
  Anton Koolmann
  Anton Koolmann was a wrestler and coach from Kuusalu Parish, Estonia who took part at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.-Career:...
  
   (1899–1953), wrestler
• Johannes Kotkas
  Johannes Kotkas
  Johannes Kotkas was an Estonian amateur wrestler who won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics for the Soviet Union.Kotkas was born in Tartu. He won the gold medal at the 1938, 1939 and 1947 European Championship. At the 1953 World Championship Kotkas won the silver medal-External links:*...
  
   (1915–1998), wrestler
• Albert Kusnets
  Albert Kusnets
  Albert Kusnets was an Estonian wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics....
  
   (1902–1942), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Marko Kristal
  Marko Kristal
  Marko Kristal is a former football midfielder with an outstanding career for the Estonian national team.-Club career:...
  
   (born 1973), football player
• Leho Laurine
  Leho Laurine
  Leho Laurine was an Estonian chess master.He was Estonian Champion in 1932 , and took 3rd in 1935, behind Paul Keres, and Gunnar Friedemann ....
  
   (1904–1998), chess player
• Tanel Leok
  Tanel Leok
  Tanel Leok is an Estonian motocross racer competing in the FIM Motocross World Championships in MX1 class.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1985), motocross rider
• Siim Liivik
  Siim Liivik
  Siim Liivik is an Estonian Finnish ice hockey winger who currently represents HIFK of the Finnish top flight, the SM-Liiga.In 2011 he sang as Märkä-Simo with Jare & VilleGalle in 2011 summer hit Häissä.-Career:...
  
   (born 1988), ice hockey player
• Joel Lindpere
  Joel Lindpere
  Joel Lindpere is an Estonian professional footballer who currently plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. He plays as a midfielder.-Estonia:...
  
   (born 1981), footballer for New York Red Bulls and the Estonian National Team
• Heino Lipp
  Heino Lipp
  Heino Lipp was an Estonian athlete, who was one of the greatest decathlete in the decade of the 1940s, but was never able to compete in the Olympic Games, because was never allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union dominated Iron Curtain countries...
  
   (1922–2006), decathlete
• Jüri Lossmann
  Jüri Lossmann
  Jüri Lossmann was an Estonian long distance runner.Lossmann came in second on the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at 2:32:48.6 trailing Hannes Kolehmainen by 13 seconds but beating the third place Valerio Arri by almost 4 minutIn the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris he came in 10th...
  
   (1891–1984), long distance runner, Olympic medalist
• Arnold Luhaäär
  Arnold Luhaäär
  Arnold Luhaäär was an Estonian weightlifter who won the bronze medal for his native country in the Men's Heavyweight Weightlifting at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany....
  
   (1905–1965), weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Georg Lurich
  Georg Lurich
  Georg Lurich was a Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler and strongman of the early 20th century. Lurich was also the trainer of fellow countryman wrestler and weightlifter Georg Hackenschmidt and Aleksander Aberg.-Early life:...
  
   (1876–1920), wrestler
• Jaak Mae
  Jaak Mae
  Jaak Mae is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 1994. He won a bronze in the 15km event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
  
   (born 1972), skier, Olympic medalist
• Markko Märtin
  Markko Märtin
  Markko Märtin is a rally driver from Estonia, who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2000 until 2005.-Career:...
  
   (born 1975), rally driver
• Tarmo Mitt
  Tarmo Mitt
  Tarmo Mitt is a professional strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition...
  
   (born 1977), World Strong Man
• Martin Müürsepp
  Martin Müürsepp
  Martin Müürsepp is an Estonian retired professional basketball player and basketball coach.-Club career:...
  
   (born 1974), basketball player
• Iivo Nei
  Iivo Nei
  Iivo Nei is an Estonian chess master.In 1947, at the beginning of his career, Nei took 3rd in Leningrad at the sixth USSR championships. The event was won by Viktor Korchnoi. In 1948, he tied for first with Korchnoi in Tallinn...
  
   (born 1931), chess player, JOCKEY
• August Neo
  August Neo
  August "Ago" Neo was an Estonian wrestler and Olympic medalist....
  
   (1908–1982), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Alfred Neuland
  Alfred Neuland
  Alfred Neuland was a weightlifter and Olympic champion from Valga, Estonia. He won gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , and obtained a silver medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris .-References:...
  
   (1895–1966), weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Erki Nool
  Erki Nool
  Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician.Nool is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest...
  
   (born 1970), decathlete, Olympic medalist
• Tõnu Õim
  Tõnu Õim
  Tõnu Õim is an Estonian grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the first man to have won the ICCF World Championship in correspondence chess twice, in 1983 and 1999.-Notable chess games:* *...
  
   (born 1941), chess player
• Lembit Oll
  Lembit Oll
  Lembit Oll was an Estonian chess grandmaster. He was already successful as a junior, becoming champion of Estonia in 1982 and junior champion of the Soviet Union in 1984. He also won multiple European and World junior championships. FIDE awarded him the IM-title in 1983 and the GM-title in 1992...
  
   (1966–1999), chess player
• Andres Oper
  Andres Oper
  Andres Oper is an Estonian footballer who plays as a striker. He played in AEK Larnaca. He has set the goalscoring record for the Estonian national team, by scoring 36 goals in 117 matches.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1977), football player
• Kristjan Palusalu
  Kristjan Palusalu
  Kristjan Palusalu was an Estonian heavyweight wrestler and Olympic winner....
  
   (1908–1987), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Indrek Pertelson
  Indrek Pertelson
  Indrek Pertelson is an Estonian judoka. At the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics he won bronze medals in the men's Heavyweight category. He was born in Tallinn.-References:*...
  
   (born 1971), judoka, Olympic medalist
• Mart Poom
  Mart Poom
  Mart Poom is an Estonian former football goalkeeper. He retired after Estonia's 0–0 draw against Portugal on 10 June 2009 to focus on his job as goalkeeping coach at Arsenal and the Estonian national team, as well as other more "personal" projects....
  
   (born 1972), football player
• Eduard Pütsep
  Eduard Pütsep
  Eduard Pütsep was an Estonian wrestler who won a Gold Medal in the Bantamweight division in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France after defeating Sweden's Sigfrid Hansson in the Sixth Round....
  
   (1898–1960), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Kristjan Rahnu
  Kristjan Rahnu
  Kristjan Rahnu is an Estonian decathlete. His personal best dates back to 2005 when he did 8526 points in France, Arles on June 4–5...
  
   (born 1979), decathlete
• Ilmar Raud
  Ilmar Raud
  Ilmar Raud was an Estonian chess master.-Biography:Raud played several times in the Estonian championships at Tallinn. In 1933, he tied for 3rd-5th at the 5th EST–ch. The event was won by Gunnar Friedemann. In 1934, he won the 6th EST–ch. In 1936, he took 3rd at the 8th EST–ch...
  
   (1913–1941), chess player
• Michael Roos
  Michael Roos
  Michael Roos is an American football offensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League.-High school career:...
  
   (Mihkel Roos, born 1982), American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player
• Salme Rootare
  Salme Rootare
  Salme Rootare was an Estonian chess master.She was fifteen times Estonian Champion ....
  
   (1913–1987), chess player
• Vidrik Rootare
  Vidrik Rootare
  Vidrik "Frits" Rootare was an Estonian chess player. His wife, Salme Rootare, was also an Estonian chess player, 15-time Estonian Champion and a Women's International Master ....
  
   (c. 1900–1985), chess player
• Sven Salumaa
  Sven Salumaa
  Sven Salumaa is a former professional tour tennis player who mostly played tour tennis in doubles. Born on October 21, 1966, in Huntington, New York to Eduard and Tamara Salumaa who were immigrants from Estonia, he is now an actor and musician residing in Coronado, California.-Tour career:During...
  
   (born 1966), tennis player
• Erika Salumäe
  Erika Salumäe
  Erika Salumäe is an Estonian track bicycle racer who won the first Olympic gold medal for Estonia after the country regained its independence in 1991.She was born in Pärnu. She trained at VSS Kalev in Tallinn...
  
   (born 1962), cyclist, Olympic medalist
• Jane Salumäe
  Jane Salumäe
  Jane Salumäe is a retired female long-distance runner from Estonia, who twice competed in the Summer Olympics . She set her personal best in the marathon on May 11, 1997 in Turin.-Achievements:...
  
   (born 1968), marathon runner
• Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu
  Ortvin Sarapu MBE , sometimes known as "Mr Chess", was a New Zealand chess International Master who won or co-won the New Zealand Chess Championship 20 times between 1952 and 1990.-Early life:Born Ortvin Sarapuu in Estonia, he won the Estonian Junior Championship in 1940, then defected to Finland...
  
   (1924–1999), chess player (New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
  )
• Roman Steinberg
  Roman Steinberg
  Roman Steinberg from Tallinn, Estonia, was a Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France....
  
   (1900–1928), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Alfred Schmidt
  Alfred Schmidt (weightlifter)
  Alfred Schmidt was an Estonian weightlifter and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.-References:...
  
   (1898–1972), weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Paul Felix Schmidt
  Paul Felix Schmidt
  Paul Felix Schmidt was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.- Biography :In June 1935, he won, ahead of Paul Keres, at Tallinn. In May 1936, he drew a match against Keres at Pärnu. In 1936, he won the 8th Estonian Championship at Tallinn. In December 1936, he placed...
  
   (1916–1984), chess player
• Kristina Šmigun-Vähi (born 1977), skier, Olympic medalist
• Tiit Sokk
  Tiit Sokk
  Tiit Sokk is a retired Estonian professional basketball player who played mostly at the point guard position....
  
   (born 1964), basketball player (1988 Olympic Gold Medalist for USSR)
• Nikolai Stepulov
  Nikolai Stepulov
  Nikolai Stepulov was an Estonian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the silver medal in the lightweight class after losing the final against Imre Harangi.-References:*...
  
   (1913–1968), boxer, Olympic medalist
• Toivo Suursoo
  Toivo Suursoo
  Toivo Suursoo is an Estonian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Swindon Wildcats in the English Premier Ice Hockey League.-Career statistics:-External links:*...
  
   (born 1975), ice hockey player
• Jaan Talts
  Jaan Talts
  Jaan Talts is a former Estonian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.- Career :...
  
   (born 1944), weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Harald Tammer
  Harald Tammer
  Harald Tammer was a journalist, athlete and weightlifting World Champion and Olympic bronze medalist from Tallinn, Estonia.-Career:...
  
   (1899–1942), journalist, athlete, weightlifter, Olympic medalist
• Aleksander Tammert
  Aleksander Tammert
  Aleksander Tammert is an Estonian discus thrower.-Athletics career:Tammert competed at the 2004 Olympics and originally finishing fourth, but as gold medal winner Róbert Fazekas was disqualified, Tammert received the bronze medal...
  
   (born 1973), discus thrower, Olympic medalist
• Jüri Tarmak
  Jüri Tarmak
  Jüri Tarmak is a former Estonian athlete who competed mainly in the high jump and competed for the Soviet Union. He trained at Dynamo in Leningrad and studied at the Leningrad State University....
  
   (born 1946), high jumper, Olympic medalist
• Tõnu Tõniste
  Tõnu Tõniste
  Tõnu Tõniste is retired sailor from Estonia, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won a silver and a bronze medal in the men's 470 class, for the Soviet Union and for Estonia . He did so with his twin brother Toomas Tõniste.-References:*...
  
   (born 1967), yachtsman, businessman, Olympic medalist
• Toomas Tõniste
  Toomas Tõniste
  Toomas Tõniste is retired sailor and a politician from Estonia, who competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He won a silver and a bronze medal in the men's 470 class, for the Soviet Union and for Estonia . He did so with his twin brother Tõnu Tõniste...
  
   (born 1967), yachtsman, businessman, Olympic medalist
• Michael Roos
  Michael Roos
  Michael Roos is an American football offensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League.-High school career:...
  
   (born 1982), American football player
• Johannes Türn
  Johannes Türn
  -Biography:Türn played in numerous Estonian championships. In 1923, he took 2nd, behind Paul Rinne, in Tallinn . In 1925, he won in Tallinn . In 1930, he took 2nd, behind Vladas Mikėnas . In 1932, he tied for 3rd-4th with Gunnar Friedemann, behind Leho Laurine, and Rinne...
  
   (1898–1993), chess player
• Voldemar Väli
  Voldemar Väli
  Voldemar Väli was a two-time Olympic medalist for Estonia in Greco-Roman wrestling.-External links:***...
  
   (1903–1997), wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Andrus Värnik
  Andrus Värnik
  Andrus Värnik is an Estonian javelin thrower. His personal best set in 2003, 87.83 m, is also the Estonian record....
  
   (born 1977), javelin thrower
• Andrus Veerpalu
  Andrus Veerpalu
  Andrus Veerpalu is a former and so far the most successful Estonian male cross country skier.On 17 February 2006 he won his second Winter Olympics gold medal , becoming the fourth Estonian to have won two Olympic gold medals Andrus Veerpalu (born 8 February 1971 in Pärnu) is a former and so far...
  
   (born 1971), skier, Olympic medalist

Visual arts

• Amandus Adamson
  Amandus Adamson
  Amandus Heinrich Adamson was an Estonian sculptor and painter.-Life:...
  
   (1855–1929), sculptor
• Adamson-Eric
  Adamson-Eric
  Adamson-Eric was an Estonian artist who worked mainly within the medium of painting in applied art.Born Erich Carl Hugo Adamson in Tartu, he was the fourth child of Jaan and Anna Adamson. Adamson attended schools in his native Estonia before relocating to Berlin to study at the Charlottenburg Art...
  
   (Erich Adamson, 1902–1968), painter
• Peeter Allik
  Peeter Allik
  Peeter Allik is an Estonian artist. Surrealist .Graduated from Tartu University.In 1997 became the first laureate of Ado Wabbe Prize....
  
   (born 1966), painter, black and white artist
• Jüri Arrak
  Jüri Arrak
  Jüri Arrak is an Estonian artist, a painter whose works with distinguished and recognizable style have won acclaim around the world....
  
   (born 1936), painter
• Raivo Järvi
  Raivo Järvi
  Raivo Järvi, commonly known under the pseudonym of Onu Raivo is Estonian artist, radio personality and politician.-Artistic career:...
  
   (born 1954), illustrator, politician
• Mati Karmin
  Mati Karmin
  Mati Karmin is one of Estonia's most renowned contemporary sculptors. His career as an artist is characterised by an intense and remarkably versatile activity....
  
   (born 1959), sculptor
• Johann Köler
  Johann Köler
  Johann Köler was a leader of the Estonian national awakening and a painter. He is considered as the first professional painter of the emerging nation. He distinguished himself primarily by his portraiture and to a lesser extent by his landscape paintings...
  
   (1826–1899), painter
• Andres Koort
  Andres Koort
  Andres Koort is an Estonian painter, scenographer, exhibit designer and curator. He is a member of the Estonian Artists' Association and member of the board of the Estonian Painters Association since 2002 and has curated and designed some EPA's exhibitions.-Biography:Koort was born 17 May 1969 in...
  
   (born 1969), painter and scenographer
• Mark Kostabi
  Mark Kostabi
  Kalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer.-Early life:Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960 to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and Rita Kostabi. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton...
  
   (Kalev Mark Kostabi, born 1960), painter (USA)
• Meeli Kõiva
  Meeli Kõiva
  Meeli Kõiva Estonia is an artist, primarily concerned with glass active in Finland, Belgium and US, where she has produced a range of paintings, architectural lighting sculptures, multimedia installations and architectural stained glass pieces.-Reviews:"Meeli Koiva is recognized worldwide as a...
  
   (born 1960), glass artist
• Ants Laikmaa
  Ants Laikmaa
  Ants Laikmaa was an Estonian painter.-Life:...
  
   (1866–1943), painter
• Leonhard Lapin
  Leonhard Lapin
  Leonhard Lapin is a versatile Estonian artist who has been active in fine art, art theory and architecture as well as in literature. He is considered one of Estonia's leading artists.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1947), graphic, painter, sculptor, architect
• Ivo Lill
  Ivo Lill
  Ivo Lill is a notable Estonian glass artist.Lill is a 1985 graduate of the Tallinn Art Academy and works almost exclusively in the medium of glass sculpting and design. He is a member of the Estonian Artists' Association, G.A.S...
  
   (born 1953), glass artist
• Marko Mäetamm
  Marko Mäetamm
  Marko Mäetamm is an Estonian multimedia artist, working within the mediums of video, drawing, interactive CDs, and the internet....
  
   (born 1965), painter
• Konrad Mägi
  Konrad Mägi
  Konrad Vilhelm Mägi was an Estonian landscape painter. He was one of the most colour-sensitive Estonian painters of the first decades of the 20th century, and Mägi's works on motives of the island of Saaremaa are the first modern Estonian nature paintings.Mägi received his elementary art...
  
   (1878–1925), painter
• Kadri Mälk
  Kadri Mälk
  Kadri Mälk is a notable Estonian artist and jewelry designer.Mälk began her studies at the Tartu Art School in 1977 and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1986, studying under professor Leili Kuldkepp. Between 1986 and 1993 Mälk worked as a freelance artist...
  
   (born 1958), jewellery artist
• Lydia Mei
  Lydia Mei
  Lydia Mei was an Estonian artist who specialized in watercolors and still lifes.Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Lydia Mei was the middle child of the three daughters of a ship's captain...
  
   (1896–1965), painter
• Natalie Mei
  Natalie Mei
  Natalie Mei was an Estonian painter and graphic artist.Born on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa, Natalie Mei was one of three daughters of a ship's captain...
  
   (1900–1975), painter
• Juhan Muks
  Juhan Muks
  Juhan Jaagu Muks was an Estonian artist and painter.Juhan Muks was born in Tuhalaane, Viljandi County, Estonia. He acquired a higher education abroad before returning to his native Estonia and following his fellow countrymen Adamson-Eric, Shmuel Rosenblatt, Eduard Wiiralt, Lydia Mei, Kristjan...
  
   (1899–1983), painter
• Naima Neidre
  Naima Neidre
  Naima Neidre is an Estonian graphic artist and printmaker. She is married to Benjamin Vasserman.-Awards:*1972 Honour Diploma – Leipzig IBA, Germany...
  
   (born 1943), graphic artist
• Evald Okas
  Evald Okas
  Evald Okas was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes.-Biography:Okas was born in Tallinn, where he began his artistic career while studying at the State Art School...
  
   (born 1915), painter
• Eduard Ole
  Eduard Ole
  Eduard Ole was an Estonian painter. Some of his most representative works are on permanent exhibition at Kumu Kunstimuuseum in Tallinn....
  
   (1898–1995), painter
• Ludvig Oskar
  Ludvig Oskar
  Ludvig Oskar was an Estonian painter.He started his art studies in 1903, while artist Ants Laikmaa opened his studio school. In addition to studio classes Oskar took watercolor classes with Karl Winkler.After studies abroad he taught at Tallinna Reaalkool...
  
   (1874–1951), painter
• Tiit Pääsuke
  Tiit Pääsuke
  Tiit Pääsuke is an Estonian painter.-References:...
  
   (born 1941), painter
• Kaljo Põllu
  Kaljo Põllu
  Kaljo Põllu was an Estonian artist. In 1962 he received a diploma in glass art, and became director of art cabinet of Tartu State University; he founded the contemporary artist's group Visarid in 1966 in Tartu...
  
   (born 1934), painter, graphic artist
• Kristjan Raud
  Kristjan Raud
  Kristjan Raud was an Estonian painter and draughtsman.His parents were Jaan Raud and his wife Henriette Loviisa Raud...
  
   (1865–1943), graphic artist
• Enn Roos
  Enn Roos
  Enn Roos was an Estonian Soviet sculptor.A notable work of his is the bronze sculpture from 1947 that is part of the World War II memorial ensemble in Tallinn, Estonia, nowadays usually called the Bronze Soldier, whose accompanying monumental stone structure was designed by the architect Arnold Alas...
  
   (1908–1990), sculptor
• Richard Sagrits
  Richard Sagrits
  Richard Sagrits was an Estonian painter.Sagrits was an author of the ceiling painting of the Estonian National Opera in the style of Socialist Realism....
  
   (1910—1968), painter
• Michel Sittow (1469–1525), painter
• Jaan Toomik
  Jaan Toomik
  Jaan Toomik is a video artist and a painter, often described as the most widely acknowledged Estonian contemporary artist on the international scene.__FORCETOC__-Status:...
  
   (born 1961), painter
• Edmund S. Valtman
  Edmund S. Valtman
  Edmund S. Valtman was an Estonian-American editorial cartoonist and winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning....
  
   (1914–2005), cartoonist (USA)
• Eduard Viiralt
  Eduard Wiiralt
  Eduard Wiiralt was an Estonian artist.Eduard Wiiralt was born near St. Petersburg as the son of Estonian parents who worked on a Russian country estate...
  
   (Eduard Wiiralt, 1898–1954), graphic artist
• Kiino Villand
  Kiino Villand
  Kiino Villand, born to Estonian emigre family in the United States, is a Los Angeles-based DJ and commercial photographer best known for his photographs of personalities from the worlds of film, music, art and culture. His editorial and advertising work has appeared in publications such as Emmy,...
  
   (born 1969), photographer (USA)
• Ilon Wikland
  Ilon Wikland
  Ilon Wikland is a Swedish artist and illustrator, born in Tartu, Estonia, but raised Haapsalu on Estonia's Baltic coast...
  
  (born 1930), illustrator (Sweden)