# List of Baltic Germans

This is a list of notable Baltic Germans.

## Art and literature
### 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)
* Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724–1796), 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 von 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

## Entertainment
### 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)
* Naike Rivelli (born 1974), actress and singer (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
* Johann Friedrich Hartknoch (1740–1789), book publisher
* 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

## 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)
* Jacob von Eggers (1704–1773), military engineer (Sweden, Electorate of Saxony)
* Magnus Gustav von Essen (1759–1813), military commander (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)
* Eduard von Totleben (1818–1884), engineer-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)
* 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 (1683–1736), 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

## Scientists
### 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

* August von Bulmerincq (1822–1890), legal scholar
* 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)