List of Estonian scientists

Astronomers and space scientists

Jaan Einasto (born 1929), astrophysicist

Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), astronomer and astrophysicist

Alar Toomre (born 1937), astronomer

Biologists, botanists and ecologists

Jaan Eilart (1933–2006), phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist

Toomas Frey (born 1937), ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist

Fred Jüssi (born 1935), biologist

Leiti Kannukene (born 1939), botanist

Toomas Kukk (born 1971), botanist

Ülle Kukk (born 1937), botanist and conservationist

Kalevi Kull (born 1952), biologist and semiotician

Olevi Kull (1955–2007), ecologist

Tiiu Kull (born 1958), botanist

Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), biologist

Liivia Laasimer (1918–1988), botanist

Teodor Lippmaa (1892–1943), botanist

Aime Mäemets (1930–1996), botanist and hydrobiologist

Ann Marvet (born 1939), botanist

Viktor Masing (1925–2001), botanist and ecologist

Ingmar Ott (born 1955), botanist

Erast Parmasto (1928–2012), mycologist, bioscientist and botanist

Kaljo Pork (1930–1981), botanist

Jaan Port (1891–1950), botanist

Haide-Ene Rebassoo (born 1935), botanist

Bernhard Saarsoo (1899–1964), botanist

Andres Salumets (born 1971), biologist, biochemist and educator

Urmas Tartes (born 1963), biologist

Hans Trass (born 1928), ecologist and botanist

Aleksei Turovski (born 1946), zoologist and ethologist

Albert Üksip (1886–1966), botanist and actor

August Vaga (1893–1960), botanist

Gustav Vilbaste (1885–1967), botanist

Olev Vinn (born 1971), paleobiologist and paleontologist

Martin Zobel (born 1957), ecologist

Chemists and material scientists

Paul Kogerman (1891–1951), chemist

Jüri Kukk (1940–1981), chemist

Miia Rannikmäe (born 1951), chemist

Hillar Rootare (1928–2008), chemist

Ivar Karl Ugi (1930-2005), chemist

Lauri Vaska (1925–2015), chemist

Economists

Ardo Hansson (born 1958), economist

Ragnar Nurkse (1907–1959), economist

Raul Renter (1920–1992), economist

Geneticists

Toomas Kivisild (born 1969), geneticist

Andres Metspalu (born 1951), geneticist

Riin Tamm (born 1981), geneticist

Historians and art historians

Vello Helk (1923–2014), historian

Magnus Ilmjärv (born 1961), historian

Richard Indreko (1900–1961), historian and archaeologist

Andres Kasekamp (born 1961), historian

Mart Laar (born 1960), historian

Villem Raam (1910–1996), art historian, art critic and conservator-restorer

Linguists and ethnographers

Johannes Aavik (1880–1973), philologist

Paul Ariste (1905–1990), linguist

Oskar Kallas (1868–1946), linguist, folklorist and diplomat

Elmar Muuk (1901–1941), linguist

Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), linguist

Paul Saagpakk (1910–1996), linguist

Evar Saar (born 1969), linguist, toponymist and journalist

Mathematicians and computer scientists

Gunnar Kangro (1913–1975), mathematician

Edgar Krahn (1894–1961), mathematician

Leiki Loone (born 1944), mathematician

Andres Luure (born 1959), philosopher and mathematician

Jaan Sarv (1877–1954), mathematician

Alar Toomre (born 1937), astronomer and mathematician

Psychologists

Jüri Allik (born 1949), psychologist

Mart Murdvee (born 1951), psychologist and scholar

Konstantin Ramul (1879–1975), psychologist

Mare Teichmann (born 1954), psychologist

Endel Tulving (born 1927), psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist

Physicists

Jaak Aaviksoo (born 1954), physicist and politician

Endel Aruja (1911–2008), physicist

Vladimir Hütt (1936–1997), physicist

Harald Keres (1912–2010), physicist

Madis Kõiv (1929–2014), physicist, writer and philosopher

Gustav Naan (1919–1994), physicist and philosopher

Karl Rebane (1926–2007), physicist

Ljubov Rebane (1929–1991), physicist

Kaido Reivelt (born 1970), physicist

Other scientists

Endel Laas (1915–2009), forest scientist

Endel Lippmaa (1930-2015), academian, politician, founder and chairman of the Science Council of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, chairman and professor of chemical physics, physical chemistry, physics, and mathematics

Karl Leichter (1902–1987), musicologist