List of Tartu University people

This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Tartu at Tartu, Estonia.

Nobel laureate

 * Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1909)

Humanities and social sciences

 * Jüri Allik, psychologist
 * Walter Anderson, folklorist
 * Paul Ariste, linguist
 * Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
 * Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist
 * Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
 * Gustav von Ewers, legal historian
 * Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar, supported by Albert Einstein
 * Theodosius Harnack, Lutheran theologian
 * Siim Kallas, economist and politician (EU Commissioner; former Prime Minister)
 * Andres Kasekamp, historian
 * Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
 * Jaan Kross, writer
 * Kalevi Kull, biosemiotician
 * Madis Kõiv, philosopher and physicist
 * Helga Kurm, Dean of the Pedagogical Division
 * Marju Lepajõe, classical philologist and religious historian
 * Étienne Laspeyres, economist and statistician
 * Wilhelm Lexis, economist, insurance scholar
 * Eero Loone, philosopher
 * Mihhail Lotman, semiotician
 * Juri Lotman, semiotician, historian of literature
 * Uku Masing, theologian and poet
 * Zara Mints, literary scholar
 * Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, philologist
 * Alexander von Oettingen, Lutheran theologian, famous as statistics theoretician
 * Ludwig Preller, philologist and antiquarian
 * Villem Raam, art historian
 * Konstantin Ramul, psychologist
 * Leonid Stolovich, philosopher (aesthetic)
 * Rein Taagepera, political scientist
 * Gustav Teichmüller, philosopher
 * Peeter Torop, semiotician
 * Grigol Tsereteli, classicist and papyrologist
 * Jüri Uluots, lawyer and politician
 * Jaan Valsiner, psychologist
 * Alexander Vasiliev, Byzantinist and Arabist
 * Adolph Wagner, economist and social policy scholar

Natural science

 * Marlon Dumas, computer scientist
 * Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist
 * Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
 * Friedrich Bidder, physiologist and anatomist
 * Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge, botanist
 * Karl Friedrich Burdach, biologist
 * Jaan Einasto, astrophysicist
 * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist and explorer
 * Moses Wolf Goldberg, chemist
 * Germain Henri Hess, chemist
 * Jaan Kalviste, chemist, mineralogist, educator and translator
 * Toomas Kivisild, geneticist
 * Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
 * Kalevi Kull, biologist
 * Olevi Kull, ecologist
 * Eerik Kumari, ornithologist
 * Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist, embryologist
 * Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (professor of natural sciences, 1811–1836), botanist
 * Anders Lindstedt (1854-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science.
 * Teodor Lippmaa, botanist
 * Viktor Masing, ecologist
 * Andres Metspalu, biotechnologist
 * Carl Anton von Meyer, botanist
 * Ferdinand Morawitz, entomologist
 * Arthur von Oettingen, physicist
 * Georg von Oettingen, physician
 * Ernst Öpik, astronomer
 * Georg Friedrich Parrot, physicist
 * August Rauber, anatomist
 * Alma Johanna Ruubel, mathematician
 * Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist
 * Carl Schmidt, chemist
 * Oswald Schmiedeberg, pharmacologist
 * Peter Hermann Stillmark, founder of lectinology
 * Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer
 * Eduard Toll, polar explorer
 * Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, botanist

Notable alumni

 * Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer
 * Karl Ernst von Baer, zoologist and "father" of embryology
 * Kārlis Balodis, Latvian economist, author of the civilian rationing
 * Krišjānis Barons, Latvian folklorist
 * Pan Halippa, politician in Moldova and Romania
 * Adolf von Harnack, Protestant theologian and science administrator
 * Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher
 * Germain Henri Hess, physician and chemist
 * Jakob Hurt, folklorist
 * Hermann Johansen, ornithologist
 * Küllike Jürimäe, judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
 * Elise Käer-Kingisepp, physician and pharmacologist
 * Wassily Kandinsky, abstract artist
 * Jaan Kaplinski, poet
 * Paul Keres, chess Grandmaster
 * Woldemar Kernig, internist, neurologist
 * Hermann von Keyserling, philosopher
 * Alberts Kviesis, Latvian statesman
 * Heinrich Lenz, physicist
 * Anne Lill, classical philologist
 * Emil Mattiesen (1875–1939), composer, pianist and philosopher
 * Gerhard von Maydell (1835 – 1894), explorer, cartographer and ethnologist
 * Lennart Meri, Estonian President
 * Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter
 * Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian linguist
 * Stepanos Nazarian, Armenian publisher
 * Tõnu Õnnepalu, author, poet
 * Ernst Öpik, astronomer
 * Friedrich Parrot, naturalist
 * Juhan Parts, Estonian Economic and former Prime Minister
 * Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
 * Ion Pelivan, Foreign Minister of Moldova
 * Kristjan Jaak Peterson, linguist
 * Nikolay Pirogov, medical doctor
 * Linda Poots, scientist and journalist
 * Vera Poska-Grünthal, lawyer and feminist
 * Georg von Rausch, historian
 * Alfons Rebane, military commander
 * Urmas Reinsalu (born 1975), politician
 * Karl Ristikivi, writer
 * Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer
 * Paul Saagpakk, linguist
 * Alexander Schmidt (physiologist)
 * Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
 * Josephine Serre, first woman to receive a dentistry degree from the University of Tartu, which occurred in 1814
 * Otto Strandman, Estonian Prime Minister and Head of State
 * Apolinary Szeluto, Polish composer
 * Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, pioneer physical metallurgist
 * A. H. Tammsaare, eminent Estonian writer
 * Otto Tief, Estonian Prime Minister
 * Jaanus Teppan, olympic cross-country skier
 * Valentin Tomberg, "mystic" and "magician"
 * Jakob von Uexküll, biologist
 * Krišjānis Valdemārs, Latvian writer
 * Mall Vaasma, mycologist
 * Eduards Veidenbaums, Latvian poet

Honorary doctorates

 * Umberto Eco, semiotician and novelist
 * Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
 * Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
 * Vello Helk, historian
 * Otto Kaiser, Protestant theologian
 * Ivan Pavlov, physiologist
 * Arvo Pärt, classical composer
 * Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
 * Thure von Uexküll, semiotician and medical scientist