Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian Swedish politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian independence from the Soviet Union.
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.
Mikk Mikiver was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor and theater director.
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Tallinn.
Jaak Aaviksoo is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).
Valve Pormeisternée Ulm was an Estonian landscape architect who became an architect. She was one of the first women to influence the development of Estonian architecture, becoming one of the country's most inventive modernisers of rural architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. She is often known as the "Grand Old Lady" of Estonian architecture.
Rein Raud is an Estonian scholar and author.
Karl K. Rebane was an Estonian physicist.
Kaljo Kiisk was a Soviet and Estonian actor, film director, screenwriter and politician. He was best known for his roles as Kristjan Lible from Spring, Summer (Suvi) and Autumn (Sügis), film adaptations of Oskar Luts' novels, and as Johannes Saarepera from ETV's long-running Õnne 13. His career spanned over half a century from 1953 to 2007.
Anu Lamp is an Estonian stage, film, television and voice actress, stage director, translator and instructor.
Iko Maran was an Estonian playwright and children's book author.
Arvo Junti is an Estonian lawyer and politician.
Kaur Alttoa is an Estonian art historian and cultural historian.
Jaan Klõšeiko was an Estonian printmaker and photographer.
Viiu Härm is an Estonian poet, author, photographer, translator, and former actress. Härm's career as an actress began as a teenager in the early 1960s. After appearing onstage and in several films, she retired from acting in the early 1970s to focus on writing.
Marju Lepajõe was an Estonian classical philologist, translator and religious historian.
Hendrik Allik was an Estonian communist politician and a long-term member of the Estonian Communist Party.
Rein Saluri is an Estonian writer and playwright.
Hannes Walter was an Estonian war historian.
Ivo Eensalu is an Estonian actor and theatre director. Eensalu's career began in the early 1970s, and has appeared as an actor on stage, film and in television. He became widely known after appearing on the Eesti Televisioon children's educational television series Mõmmi ja aabits. From 1995 until 2001, he was the director of the Estonian Drama Theatre.
