List of Baltic Germans

This is a list of notable Baltic Germans.

Architects

 * Alfred Aschenkampff (1858–1914), architect (Latvia)
 * Paul Max Bertschy (1840–1911), city architect of Liepāja (Latvia)
 * Bernhard Bielenstein (1877–1959), architect (Latvia)
 * Wilhelm Bockslaff (1858–1945), architect (Latvia)
 * Johann Felsko (1813–1902), architect (Latvia)
 * Karl Felsko, (1844–1918), architect (Latvia)
 * Christoph Haberland (1750–1803), architect (Latvia)
 * Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), architect (Estonia)
 * Erich Jacoby (1885–1941), architect (Estonia)
 * Paul Mandelstamm (1872–1941), architect (Latvia)
 * Robert Natus (1890–1950), architect (Estonia)
 * Robert Pflug (1832–1885), architect (Latvia)
 * August Reinberg (1860–1908), architect (Latvia)
 * Jacques Rosenbaum (1878–1944), architect (Estonia)
 * Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany)
 * Max Scherwinsky (1859–1909), architect and designer (Latvia)
 * Edmund von Trompowsky (1851–1919), architect (Latvia)

Artists

 * Christian Ackermann (died 1710), wood carver and sculptor (Estonia)
 * Johann Heinrich Baumann (1753–1832), painter (Latvia)
 * Karl Hans Bernewitz (1858–1934), sculptor (Latvia)
 * Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930), painter (Estonia)
 * Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), artist (Latvia)
 * Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), painter (Russia)
 * Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805–1867), sculptor (Russia)
 * Franz Burchard Dörbeck (1799–1835), graphic artist and caricaturist
 * Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (c. 1600–1664), painter (Sweden)
 * Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925), painter
 * Wilhelm August Golicke (1802–1848), painter
 * Eduard Hau (1807–1888), painter
 * Woldemar Hau (1816–1896), painter
 * August Matthias Hagen (1794–1878), painter
 * Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902), painter, daughter of the above
 * Vasily Helmersen (1873–1893), artist and book illustrator
 * Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States)
 * Franz Hoppenstätt (died 1657/1658), wood carver (Estonia)
 * George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968), fashion photographer
 * Alexander Julius Klünder, (1802–1875), portrait painter
 * Alexander Kotzebue (1815–1889), painter
 * Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772–1820), portrait and history painter
 * Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832), landscape and history painter
 * Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880), landscape painter
 * Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (1812–1874), painter
 * Carl Timoleon von Neff (1804–1877), painter (Estonia)
 * August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794–1859), painter and lithographer
 * Nikolaus Roerich (1874–1947), painter and philosopher (Russia)
 * Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1837), archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
 * Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany, Switzerland)
 * Gottlieb Welté (1745/49–1792), etcher and landscape painter

Authors and writers

 * Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist
 * Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist
 * Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden)
 * Anton Delvig (1798–1831), poet and journalist (Russia)
 * Helene von Engelhardt (1850–1910)
 * Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), poet and playwright (Soviet Union)
 * Julie Hausmann (1826–1901), poet
 * Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), poet, novelist, and painter (Germany)
 * Eduard von Keyserling (1855–1918), writer and playwright
 * August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), playwright (Germany)
 * Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), poet and Decembrist (Russia)
 * Anatol Lieven (born 1960), author, journalist, and policy analyst (United Kingdom)
 * Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850), writer and public activist
 * Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), writer and poet
 * Gleb Struve (1898–1985), poet and literary historian (United States)
 * Frank Thiess (1890–1977), writer (Germany)
 * Jakob von Uexkull (born 1944), writer and politician (Germany)
 * Peter Ernst Wilde (1732–1785), physician and journalist (Estonia)
 * Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), writer and literary scientist

Actors and actresses

 * Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
 * Irene von Meyendorff (1916–2001), film actress (Germany)
 * Ornella Muti (born 1955), film actress (Italy)
 * Marie Seebach (1830–1897), actress (Germany)

Musicians

 * John Christian Bechler (1784–1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
 * Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958), pianist, composer, professor (Germany)
 * Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
 * Eduard Mertke (1833–1895), composer and music teacher
 * Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 1991), singer (Germany)
 * Carl David Stegmann (1751–1826), tenor and composer
 * Raimund von zur-Mühlen (1854–1931), tenor and music educator

Entrepreneurs

 * James Martin Eder (1838–1921), pioneer of sugar industry in Colombia
 * Karl Otto Georg von Meck (1821–1876), businessman
 * Matthew Shiffner (c. 1690-1756), merchant
 * Baron Nils Taube, (1928–2008), Britain's longest serving fund manager, colleague of George Soros and advisor to Lord Rothschild
 * Moritz Freiherr von Grotthuss (*born 1970), founder of Gestigon and Bareways

Explorers

 * Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt (1834–1888), explorer
 * Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
 * Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), explorer (Russia)
 * Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890), botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
 * Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), geologist and explorer (Russia)
 * Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
 * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
 * Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), naturalist and explorer
 * Ludwig von Hagemeister (1780–1833), seafarer and explorer (Russia)
 * Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States)
 * Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia)
 * Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), explorer (Russia)
 * Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), explorer (Russia)
 * Friedrich von Lütke (1797–1898), navigator and geographer (Russia)
 * Richard Maack (1825–1886), biologist, geographer and explorer (Russia)
 * Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
 * Michael von Reinken (1801–1859), vice-admiral and hydrographer (Russia)
 * Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
 * Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
 * Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
 * Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), botanist and explorer
 * Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), geologist and explorer (Russia)
 * Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797–1870), explorer (Russia)

Military

 * Alexander of Courland (1658–1686), prince and military commander (Prussia)
 * Władysław Anders (1892–1970), military commander and politician (Poland)
 * Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761–1818), military commander (Russia)
 * Alexander von Benckendorff (1783–1844), military commander (Russia)
 * Konstantin von Benckendorff (1785–1828), military commander and diplomat (Russia)
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1793–1874), military commander (Russia)
 * Karl Ludwig von Budberg (1775–1829), military commander (Russia)
 * Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1750–1811), military commander (Russia)
 * Magnus Gustav von Essen (1759–1813), military commander (Russia)
 * Eduard von Totleben (1818–1884), engineer-general (Russia)
 * Nikolai von Essen (1860–1915), admiral (Russia)
 * Peter Kirillovich Essen (1772–1844), military commander (Russia)
 * Jürgen von Farensbach (1551–1602), military commander (Livonia)
 * William Fermor (1702–1771), military commander (Russia)
 * Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899–1944), colonel and member of the Widerstand (Nazi Germany)
 * Adrian von Fölkersahm (1914–1945), military commander (Nazi Germany)
 * Dmitry Gustavovich von Fölkersahm (1846–1905), admiral (Russia)
 * Maksimas Katche (1879–1933), military commander (Russia, Lithuania)
 * Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia)
 * Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (1801–1884), military officer (Russia)
 * Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790), military commander
 * Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia)
 * Eugen Ludwig Müller (1867–1939), military commander (Russia)
 * Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), military commander (Russia)
 * Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken (1752–1837), field marshal (Russia)
 * Johann Patkul (1660–1707), politician and military commander (Sweden, Poland, Russia)
 * Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), Master of Livonian Order
 * Paul von Rennenkampf (1854–1918), military commander (Russia)
 * Ernst von Stackelberg (1813–1870), diplomat and military figure
 * Georg von Stackelberg (1851–1913), cavalry general (Russia)
 * Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921), military commander (Russia)
 * Viktor von Wahl (1840–1915), military commander and politician
 * Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
 * Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), military commander (Sweden)
 * Herman Wrangel (1587–1643), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich von Wrangel (1878–1928), military commander (Russia)

Philosophers

 * Johann Eduard Erdmann (1805–1892), pastor, historian of philosophy (Latvia)
 * Nicolai Hartmann (1882–1950), philosopher (Germany)
 * Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), philosopher (Prussia)
 * Hermann Graf Keyserling (1880–1946), philosopher
 * Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany)
 * Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany, Switzerland)

Politicians and diplomats

 * Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772), Duke of Courland
 * Peter von Biron (1724–1800), Duke of Courland
 * Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1750–1812), diplomat and politician (Russia)
 * Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1817–1881), diplomat (Russia)
 * Sophie von Buxhoeveden (1883–1956), lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia
 * Balthasar von Campenhausen (1772–1823), politician (Russia)
 * Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia)
 * Stanisław Ernest Denhoff (1673–1728), noble and statesman (Poland)
 * Kasper Doenhoff (1587–1645), courtier and diplomat (Poland)
 * Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (1581–1642), noble and diplomat
 * Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), noblewoman
 * Hans Reinhold von Fersen (1683–1786), military commander and politician (Sweden)
 * Reinhold Johan von Fersen (1646–1716), county governor (Sweden)
 * Ferdinand Kettler (1655–1737), Duke of Courland
 * Friedrich Kettler (1569–1642), Duke of Courland
 * Frederick William Kettler (1692–1711), Duke of Courland
 * Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650–1698), Duke of Courland
 * Gotthard Kettler (1517–1587), last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland
 * Jacob Kettler (1610–1682), Duke of Courland
 * Wilhelm Kettler (1574–1640), Duke of Courland
 * Andreas Meyer-Landrut (born 1929), diplomat (Germany)
 * Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia)
 * Dorothea von Lieven (1785–1857), noblewoman and diplomat (Russia)
 * Christoph Johann von Medem (1763–1838), courtier (Russia)
 * Dorothea von Medem (1761–1821), last Duchess of Courland
 * Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia)
 * Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, (1745–1826), military Governor of St. Petersburg from 1798 to 1801, played pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul.
 * Johann Patkul (1660–1707), politician and military commander (Sweden, Poland, Russia)
 * Adolf Pilar von Pilchau (1851–1925), politician, regent of the United Baltic Duchy
 * Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), Master of Livonian Order
 * Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect, and convicted war criminal (Germany)
 * Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884–1923), politician (Nazi Germany)
 * Jacob von Sievers (1731–1808), politician (Russia)
 * Ernest Stackelberg (1813–1870), diplomat and military figure
 * Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (1766–1850), diplomat (Russia)
 * Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1736–1800), diplomat (Russia)
 * Karl von Struve (1835–1907), politician and diplomat (Russia)
 * Jakob von Uexkull (born 1944), writer and politician (Germany)
 * Victor von Wahl (1840–1915), military commander and politician
 * Princess Wilhelmine (1781–1839), noble and the Duchess of Sagan
 * Sergei Witte (1849–1915), first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (Russia)
 * Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
 * Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), journalist and politician, member of Bundestag (Germany)
 * Herman Wrangel (1587–1643), military commander and statesman (Sweden)

Religion

 * Albert of Riga (Albert von Buxthoeven, 1165–1229), Bishop of Riga
 * Alexy II of Moscow (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929–2008), Patriarch of Moscow
 * John Christian Bechler (1784–1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
 * Anna Hedvig Büll (1887–1981), Christian missionary
 * Reinhold von Buxhoeveden (died 1557), Bishop of Ösel-Wiek
 * Hermann of Dorpat (1163–1248), first Bishop of Dorpat
 * Oscar von Gebhardt (1844–1906), Lutheran theologian
 * Barbara von Krüdener (1764–1824), mystic
 * Hermann Wesel (died 1563), ecclesiastic and the last Bishop of Dorpat
 * Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), Lutheran theologian and church historian (Germany)
 * Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983), Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer

Astronomers and cosmologists

 * Wilhelm Anderson (1880–1940), astrophysicist
 * Magnus Georg Paucker (1787–1855), astronomer and mathematician
 * Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
 * Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864), astronomer (Russia)
 * Georg Hermann Struve (1886–1933), astronomer (Germany)
 * Hermann Struve (1854–1920), astronomer (Russia)
 * Ludwig Struve (1858–1920), astronomer (Russia)
 * Otto Struve (1897–1963), astronomer (Russia, United States)
 * Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819–1905), astronomer (Russia)
 * Wilfried Struve (1914–1992), astronomer (Germany)
 * Gustav Andreas Tammann (1932–2019), astronomer (Germany, Switzerland)

Biologists and paleontologists

 * Hermann Martin Asmuss (1812–1859), paleozoologist (Estonia)
 * Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
 * Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner (1816–1842), botanist
 * Friedrich Bidder (1810–1894), physiologist and anatomist (Russia)
 * Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (1833–1873), botanist
 * Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890), botanist (Russia)
 * Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist and naturalist
 * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
 * Gustav Flor (1829–1883), zoologist
 * Peter von Glehn (1835–1876), botanist
 * Alexander von Keyserling (1815–1891), geologist and paleontologist
 * Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902), anatomist
 * Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1785–1851), botanist (Russia)
 * Harald von Loudon (1876–1959), ornithologist
 * Johann Marcusen (1817–1894), ichthyologist
 * Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem (1912–1984), zoologist
 * Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
 * Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), chemist, winner of the Nobel prize in Chemistry
 * Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), chemist and biologist (Germany)
 * Heinz Christian Pander (1794–1865), biologist, embryologist and paleontologist
 * Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), biologist and medical scientist
 * Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle (1869–1926), botanist
 * Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
 * Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
 * Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist and semiotician (Germany)

Chemists and material scientists

 * Andreas von Antropoff (1878–1956), chemist, postulated neutronium
 * Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist and naturalist
 * Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), chemist
 * Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), chemist and Nobel laureate (Germany)
 * Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), chemist and biologist (Germany)
 * Carl Schmidt (1822–1894), chemist (Russia)
 * Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve (1822–1908), chemist (Russia)
 * Gustav Tammann (1861–1938), chemist
 * Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), chemist (Russia)
 * Margarete von Wrangell (1877–1932), agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university
 * Theodor Grotthuss (1785–1822), electrochemist

Earth scientists

 * Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
 * Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), geologist and explorer (Russia)
 * Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
 * Gregor von Helmersen (1803–1885), geologist
 * Carl Hiekisch (1840–1901), geographer
 * Alexander Keyserling (1815–1891), geologist and paleontologist
 * Fyodor Litke (Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, 1797–1898), navigator and geographer (Russia)
 * Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
 * Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
 * Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
 * Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), botanist and explorer
 * Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), geologist and explorer (Russia)

Economists and sociologists

 * August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
 * Dominic Lieven (born 1952), political scientist (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
 * Paul von Lilienfeld (1829–1903), social scientist
 * Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905–1946), economist (Germany)

Historians and archeologists

 * Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian
 * Paul Einhorn (died 1655), historian (Latvia)
 * Gustav von Ewers (1779–1830), legal historian and scholar (Russia)
 * Jean Baptiste Holzmayer (1839–1890), teacher, archeologist and folklorist (Estonia)
 * Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1937), archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
 * Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel (1881–1941), art historian
 * Richard Otto Zöpffel (1843–1891), theologist and church historian

Linguists and ethnographers

 * Nikolai Anderson (1845–1905), philologist
 * Walter Anderson (1885–1962), folklorist
 * August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
 * Peter A. Boodberg (1903–1972), sinologist (United States)
 * Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), sinologist
 * Johann Christoph Brotze (1742–1823), pedagogue and ethnographer
 * Elena Lieven (born 1947), psycholinguist and cognitive scientist (United Kingdom)
 * Carl Salemann (1850-1916), Iranist
 * Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
 * Alexander von Staël-Holstein (1877–1937), orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist (Estonia)
 * Vasily Vasilievich Struve (1889–1965), orientalist (Soviet Union)
 * Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist and semiotician (Germany)
 * Thure von Uexküll (1908–2004), semiotician (Germany)
 * Alexander Vostokov (1781–1864), philologist (Russia)
 * Edgar de Wahl (1867–1948), linguist (Estonia)
 * Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1805–1887), linguist (Estonia)
 * Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), writer and literary scientist

Mathematicians

 * Oskar Anderson (1887–1960), mathematician and statistician
 * Georg Cantor (1845–1918), mathematician (Germany)
 * Edgar Krahn (1894–1961), mathematician
 * Theodor Molien (1861–1941), mathematician
 * Magnus Georg Paucker (1787–1855), astronomer and mathematician
 * Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959), mathematician
 * Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)

Physicians and psychologists

 * Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907), surgeon (Germany)
 * Eugen Bostroem (1850–1928), pathologist
 * Arthur Böttcher (1831–1889), pathologist and anatomist
 * Isidorus Brennsohn (1854–1928), doctor of medicine and biographer
 * Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (1851–1927), internist and pathologist
 * Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
 * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
 * Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), physician
 * Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902), anatomist
 * Elena Lieven, psycholinguist and cognitive scientist (United Kingdom)
 * Werner Zoege von Manteuffel (1857–1926), medical surgeon
 * Georg von Oettingen (1824–1916), ophthalmologist
 * Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), biologist and medical scientist
 * Zacharias Stopius (c. 1535 – end of the 16th or early 17th century), doctor and astronomer
 * Thure von Uexküll (1908–2004), semiotician (Germany)
 * Eduard Georg von Wahl (1833–1890), surgeon
 * Justus Heinrich Wigand (1769–1817), obstetrician
 * Peter Ernst Wilde (1732–1785), physician and journalist

Physicists

 * Heinrich Lenz (1804–1865), physicist
 * Arthur von Oettingen (1836–1920), physicist, meteorologist and music theorist
 * Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711–1753), physicist
 * Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770–1831), physicist

Theologians

 * August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
 * Georg Caspari (1683–1743), theologian
 * Alexander von Oettingen (1827–1905), theologian
 * Richard Otto Zöpffel (1843–1891), theologist and historian

Other scientists and engineers

 * Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (1838–1901), marine engineer and naval architect (Russia)
 * Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), optician, inventor (Estonia)
 * Amand Struve (1835–1898), military engineer and bridge specialist (Russia)
 * Friedrich Zander (1887–1933), rocket scientist (Russia, Soviet Union)
 * Walter Zapp (1905–2003), inventor (Latvia, Estonia)

Sports

 * Ursula Donath (born 1931), runner (East Germany)

Chess players

 * Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), cultural historian, businessman and endgame composer
 * Andreas Ascharin (1843–1896), chess master
 * Bernhard Gregory (1879–1939), chess master
 * Lionel Kieseritzky (1806–1853), chess master
 * R.K. Kieseritzky (1870–?), chess master
 * Theodor Molien (1861–1941), mathematician and chess problemist
 * Paul Felix Schmidt (1916–1984), chess master
 * Wilhelm von Stamm (?–1905), chess master (Latvia)

Other

 * Johann Burchart (1546–1616), pharmacist
 * Gustav Fabergé (1814–1893), jeweller
 * Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923), landowner and public figure, founder of Nõmme
 * Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889–1951), judge, Great Purge perpetrator (Soviet Union)