Education and Science
- Julius Aamisepp (1883–1950), agricultural scientist
- Johannes Aavik (1880–1973), linguist
- Jüri Allik (born 1949), psychologist
- Paul Ariste (1905–1990), linguist
- Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist (ethnic German)
- Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist (ethnic German)
- Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian (ethnic German)
- Jaan Einasto (born 1929), astrophysicist
- Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793–1831), entomologist (ethnic German)
- Bengt Gottfried Forselius (c. 1660–1688), founder of public education
- Johannes Hint (1914–1985), physicist, inventor
- Karl Abraham Hunnius (1797–1851), medical doctor (ethnic German)
- Jakob Hurt (1839–1906), linguist, collector of folklore
- Edgar Kant (1902–1978), geographer
- Andres Kasekamp (born 1966), historian
- Rainer Kattel (born 1974), innovation scholar, political philosopher
- Juri Kaude (born 1921), radiologist
- Paul Kogerman (1891–1951), chemist
- Wolfgang Köhler (1887–1967), psychologist (ethnic German)
- Ilmar Koppel (born 1940), chemist
- Nikolai Köstner (1889–1959), economist, politician
- Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), ornithologist
- Heinrich Lenz (1804–1865), physicist (ethnic German)
- Elmar Leppik (1898–1978), biologist
- Otto Liiv (1905-1942), historian, archivist
- Mihhail Lotman (born 1952), semiotician (Jewish)
- Yuri Lotman (1922–1993), semiotician (Jewish)
- Richard Karlovich Maack (1825–1886), geographer, botanist, Siberian explorer, educator
- Sulev Mäeltsemees (born 1947), public administration theorist
- Friedrich Martens (1845–1909), diplomat, international lawyer
- Viktor Masing (1925–2001), ecologist
- Harri Moora (1900–1968), archaeologist
- Julia Nosov (born 1982), economist
- Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1959), economist
- Pent Nurmekund (1905–1997), linguist
- Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), astronomer
- Karl Orviku (1903–1981), geologist
- Jaak Panksepp (born 1943), psychologist, ethologist, neuroscientist
- Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), mycologist
- Georg Friedrich Parrot (1767–1852)
- Johann Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), physician, explorer
- Johannes Piiper (1882–1973), zoologist
- Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), linguist
- Ludvig Puusepp (1875–1942), medical scientist, neurosurgeon
- Gustav Ränk (1902–1998), ethnologist
- Anto Raukas (born 1935), geologist
- Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711–1753), physicist
- Hillar M. Rootare (born 1928), chemist
- Mart Saarma (born 1949), molecular biologist
- Thomas Seebeck (1770–1831), physicist
- Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819–1905), astronomer (ethnic German)
- Svante Pääbo (born 1955), paleogeneticist (Sweden, Germany)
- Eduard von Toll (1858–1902?/unknown), geologist, Arctic explorer
- Endel Tulving (born 1927), psychologist
- Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist, semiotician (ethnic German)
- Voldemar Vaga (1899–1999), art historian
- Lauri Vaska (born 1925), chemist (USA)
- Mihkel Veske (1843–1890), linguist, poet
- Gustav Vilbaste (1885–1967), botanist
- Edgar de Wahl (Edgar von Wahl, 1867–1948), teacher, creator of Interlingue
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