Editing Tallinn (section)

=== Pre-1900 ===
* [[Michael Sittow]] (ca. 1469–1525), court portrait painter for [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]] and other royal houses, a most important [[Early Netherlandish painting|Early Netherlandish painter]] 
* Count [[Jacob De la Gardie]] (1583–1652), statesman and a field marshal of Sweden
* [[Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie]] (1622–1686), a Swedish statesman and military officer 
* [[Jacob Johan Hastfer]] (1647–1695), officer and provincial governor of [[Swedish Livonia]] from 1687 to 1695
* [[Otto von Kotzebue]] (1787–1846), officer of Imperial Russian Navy, explorer of Oceania
* [[Alexander Friedrich von Hueck]] (1802–1842), professor of [[anatomy]] at [[University of Tartu]], a notable [[estophile]]
* [[Franz Anton Schiefner]] (1817–1879), linguist and [[Tibetology|tibetologist]] 
* [[Julius Iversen]] (1823–1900), [[Phaleristics|phalerist]] and professor of Greek and Latin
* [[Carl Hiekisch]] (1840–1901), geographer
* [[Edmund Russow]] (1841–1897), biologist, researcher of [[plant anatomy]] and [[histology]]
* [[Alexandrine von Wistinghausen]] (1850-c. 1914–18), landscape painter
* [[Kristjan Raud]] (1865–1943), [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolist]] painter, known for his art style of the [[primitivism]]
* [[A. H. Tammsaare]] (1878–1940), writer whose pentalogy ''Truth and Justice'' (''Tõde ja õigus'') is considered "The Estonian Novel" 
* [[Marie Under]] (1883–1980), poet, nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] multiple times
* [[Alfred Rosenberg]] (1893–1946), leading [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] ideologue, head of [[Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories]], executed for war crimes