# List of Tartu University people

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

## Notable lecturers and professors
### 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
* August von Bulmerincq, legal scholar
* 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
* Salme Nõmmik, economic geographer
* 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