List of Famous people born in Estonia

Valery Georgiyevich Karpin is a Russian football manager and former player who manages FC Rostov and the Russia national team. He is a former midfielder, primarily a right midfielder.

Anett Kontaveit is an Estonian professional tennis player.

Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician and the current Prime Minister of Estonia. Sworn in on 26 January 2021, she is the first woman to serve in the position. She has been the leader of the Reform Party since 2018 and a member of the Riigikogu since 2019 and previously from 2011 to 2014. Kallas served as Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2018, representing the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Before her election to parliament, she was an attorney specialising in European and Estonian competition law.

Peeter Olesk was an Estonian literary scholar and politician.

Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Natalia Aleksandrovna Zabiiako is a Russian-Estonian former competitive pair skater. Competing for Russia with Alexander Enbert, she was the 2019 World bronze medalist, 2018 European bronze medalist, 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki champion, 2018 NHK Trophy champion, 2016 Rostelecom Cup silver medalist, and three-time Russian national medalist.

Ragnar Klavan is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Italian club Cagliari and captains the Estonia national team. A left-footed centre back, he has also played as a left back during his career.

Irina Yuryevna Leonova is a Russian theater and film actress.

Kaia Kanepi is an Estonian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on August 20, 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour.

Kersti Kaljulaid is an Estonian politician who is the fifth and current President of Estonia, in office since 10 October 2016. She is the first female head of state of Estonia since the country declared independence in 1918, as well as the youngest ever President, age 46 at the time of her election.

Kirill Valerievich Käro is a Russian-Estonian actor. He is best known for playing the lead character in 32 episodes of The Sniffer (2013-2017), as George Safronov in 16 episodes of Netflix robot sci-fi Better than Us (2019), and as Sergey in the zombie television series To the Lake (2020).

Anna Hedvig Büll was a Baltic German missionary from Estonia, who helped to save the lives of several thousand Armenian orphans during the Armenian genocide.

Maicel Uibo is an Estonian decathlete. While competing for the University of Georgia, he won the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Decathlon championships. Uibo won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships, setting his personal best in the event with 8604 points.

Grete Šadeiko Griffin is an Estonian heptathlete. At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Moncton, Canada she placed fourth with her personal record 5705 points, just one point behind Helga Margrét Thorsteinsdóttir. In the fall of 2012, she joined Florida State University.

Konstantin Päts was the most influential politician of interwar Estonia, and served five times as the country's head of government. He was one of the first Estonians to become active in politics and started an almost 40-year political rivalry with Jaan Tõnisson, first through journalism with his newspaper Teataja, later through politics. He was condemned to death during the 1905 Revolution, but managed to flee first to Switzerland, then to Finland, where he continued his literary work. He returned to Estonia, but had to spend time in prison in 1910–1911.

Yekaterina Valeryevna Volkova is a Russian actress of theater, film and television. She is known for her television role in a Russian sitcom Voronin's Family (Воронины) — adaptation of the American TV series Everybody Loves Raymond.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Komarov is a Finnish–Russian professional ice hockey centre for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). A natural centre early in his career, Komarov has made the transition to being able to play all three forward positions.

Anton Eduardovich Vaino is a Russian diplomat and politician. Currently he is the Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office. Vaino is the grandson of the former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia Karl Vaino.

Baruto Kaito is an Estonian politician and former professional sumo wrestler. Making his debut in May 2004, he reached the top division after just two years in sumo in May 2006. After suffering a number of injury problems in 2007 which delayed his progress, he reached the third-highest rank of sekiwake in November 2008, and was promoted to ōzeki rank after finishing the March 2010 tournament with a score of 14–1. He was a tournament runner-up four times before recording a top division championship in the 2012 January tournament. During his career Baruto also earned five special prizes for Fighting Spirit, one for Outstanding Performance and one for Technique. He lost his ōzeki rank after more injury problems at the end of 2012, and having fallen greatly in rank after withdrawing from the May 2013 tournament, he announced his retirement in September of that year at the age of 28.

Andreas Meyer-Landrut is a former German diplomat. He was West Germany's ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 1989. He also served as the chief of staff to the office of the President of Germany during the presidency of Richard von Weizsäcker from 1989 to 1994.