University of Tartu faculty

Johannes (John) Gezelius the elder (1615-1690) was the Bishop of Turku and the Vice-Chancellor of The Royal Academy of Turku (1664–90).

Ilmar Kullam (15 June 1922 – 2 November 2011) was an Estonian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff (August 8, 1836 – April 7, 1898) was a German pharmacist and chemist born in Rostock.

Larisa Ilinichna Volpert (born 30 March 1926) is a Russian chess Woman Grandmaster.

Eduard Georg von Wahl (3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1833 in Vatla – 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1890 in Tartu) was a Baltic-German surgeon.

Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (4 February 1816 – 25 June 1876) was a Baltic German naturalist born near Tula in what was then the Russian Empire.

Peeter Torop (born November 28, 1950 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian semiotician.

Otto Ernst Küstner (26 August 1849, Trossin, Province of Saxony – 12 May 1931) was a German gynecologist.

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) (31 December 1798 in Ao Manor – 22 April 1850 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer, physician and philologist active in Livonia, Russian Empire.

Johann Heinrich Kurtz (December 13, 1809 – April 26, 1890) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Martin Heinrich Rathke (August 25, 1793, Danzig – September 3, 1860, Königsberg) was a German embryologist and anatomist.

Adolf Weil (7 February 1848, Heidelberg – 23 July 1916, Wiesbaden) was a German physician after whom Weil's disease is named.

Madis Kõiv (5 December 1929, Tartu, Estonia – 24 September 2014, Tartu, Estonia) was an Estonian writer, philosopher and physicist.

Hermann Martin Asmuss (31 May 1812 – 6 December 1859) was a Baltic German paleozoologist and professor at the Imperial University of Dorpat.

Alfred Karindi (30 May 1901 - 13 April 1969) was an Estonian organist and composer.

Paul A. Goble (born 1949) is an American analyst, writer and columnist with expertise on Russia.

Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (13 November 1843, Ruhrort – 13 November 1924, Leipzig) was a German internist.

Ann Tenno (née Ann Epler), (born 4 December 1952, in Tartu) is an Estonian photographer and photo artist.

Ilmari Justus Andreus Manninen (2 September 1894 – 14 June 1935) was a Finnish Professor, writer and ethnographer.

Emil Rosenberg (1842–1925) was a biologist and professor of comparative anatomy, embryology and histology, who worked 20 years at the Imperial University of Dorpat.

Ernst Christoph Friedrich Knorre (11 December 1759 – 1 December 1810) was a German-born astronomer who lived and worked in present-day Estonia as a founding professor of mathematics at the Universität Dorpat and chief observator for the Dorpat Observatory.

Sirje Tamul (born 31 August 1951 in Viljandi) is an Estonian historian and a lector at the University of Tartu.

Julia Laffranque (born 25 July 1974, née Vahing), is an Estonian jurist, judge, legal scientist (doctor iuris).

Theodosius von Harnack (3 January 1817, Saint Petersburg – 23 September 1889, Tartu) was a Baltic German theologian.

Walter Arthur Alexander Anderson (Belarusian: Вальтэр Артур Аляксандр Андэрсан; October 10 [O.S. September 28] 1885, Minsk, Russian Empire – August 23, 1962 in Kiel, Germany) was a German ethnologist (folklorist).

Leopold von Schroeder (December 24, 1851, Tartu – February 8, 1920, Vienna) was a German Indologist.

Ants Oras (8 December 1900 – 21 December 1982) was an Estonian translator and writer.

Eduard Raehlmann (19 March 1848, Ibbenbüren – 1 September 1917, Weimar) was a German ophthalmologist.

Peeter Järvelaid (born 28 November 1957) is an Estonian legal scholar and historian.

Alexander Friedrich von Hueck (1802–1842) was a Baltic-German professor of anatomy at the University of Tartu, and a notable estophile.

Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson (Belarusian: Вільгельм Роберт Карл Андэрсан; 28 October [O.S. 16 October] 1880 – 26 March 1940) was a German-Estonian astrophysicist who studied the physical structure of the stars.

Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz (June 19, 1840, St. Petersburg – 1917, Irschenhausen near Munich) was a German doctor and entomologist.

Olevi Kull (22 June 1955, Rakvere – 31 January 2007, Tartu) was an Estonian professor at the University of Tartu known for his contribution to ecology.

Tiit Rosenberg (born 26 December 1946 in Tsirguliina) is an Estonian historian and professor of Estonian History in University of Tartu.

Anti Selart (born 11 August 1973 in Tallinn) is an Estonian historian.

Teodor Lippmaa (17 November 1892 in Riga – 27 January 1943 in Tartu) was a noted Estonian botanist.

Konstantin Ramul (30 May 1879 in Kuressaare – 11 February 1975 in Tartu) was an Estonian professor of psychology and longtime chair of psychology at the University of Tartu.

Mati Laur (born 17 June 1955 in Abja-Paluoja) is an Estonian historian.

Friedrich Schultze (12 August 1848 – 14 October 1934) was a German neurologist who was a native of Rathenow, Brandenburg.

Sulev Vahtre (July 6, 1926 – August 31, 2007) was an eminent Estonian historian.

Vilen Künnapu (born 30 June 1948) is one of the most important Estonian architects of the last three decades, among the first postmodernist theoreticians and architects in the 1970s.

Jaan Sarv (Võro: Sarvõ Jaan; 21 December 1877 in Leeguste village, Saru Parish (now in Saru village, Mõniste Parish), Võru County – 23 August 1954 in Tartu) was an Estonian mathematician and educator.

Zara Grigoryevna Mints (Russian: Зара Григорьевна Минц; July 24, 1927 – October 25, 1990) was a Slavic literary scientist active in the University of Tartu.

Eduard Winkelmann (June 25, 1838 – February 10, 1896) was a German historian.

Helga Kurm (11 January 1920 - 7 January 2011) was an Estonian pedagogue.

Georg Loeschcke (28 June 1852 – 26 November 1915) was a German archaeologist born in Penig, Saxony.

Karl August Senff (12 March 1770 in Kreypau, Prussia – 2 January 1838 in Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire) was a Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher.

Julius von Kennel (10 June 1854 – 24 January 1939) was a German zoologist and entomologist born in Schwegenheim.

Andres Metspalu (born 11 March 1951) is an Estonian geneticist and member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Toomas Frey (born 13 December 1937 in Põltsamaa) is an Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist.

Jakob Ernst Arthur Böttcher (July 13, 1831 – August 10, 1889) was a Baltic German pathologist and anatomist who was a native of Bauska, in what was then the Courland Governorate (present-day Latvia).

Eero Loone (born 26 May 1935) is an Estonian philosopher.

Jaan Eilart (24 June 1933 – 18 May 2006) was an Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist.