List of Famous people born in Harju County, Estonia

Eino Baskin was an Estonian actor and theatre director.

Christfried Burmeister was an Estonian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

Count Berend Gregor Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen was a Russian noble and military officer of German Baltic origin.

Kristjan Järvi is an American conductor, composer and producer born in Estonia, younger son of the conductor Neeme Järvi and brother of conductor Paavo Järvi and flautist Maarika Järvi.

Anna Charlotta Juliana Adlerberg, née Baggehufwudt, was a Swedish pedagogue. She was the principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1802–1839.

Andres Tarand is an Estonian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2009.

Paul-Eerik Rummo is an Estonian poet, playwright, translator and politician who was the former Estonian Minister of Culture and Education, as well as the former Estonian Minister of Population Affairs.

Indrek Tarand is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Estonia. He is an Independent politician, but a member of the European Green Party.

Triin Aljand is a retired Estonian swimmer who won a silver medal at the 2012 European Aquatics Championships in 50 m butterfly. She competed in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and 100 butterfly, but never reached the finals. She also participated in multiple FINA World Aquatics Championships.

Eduard Gustav Freiherr von Toll, better known in Russia as Eduard Vasilyevich Toll and often referred to as Baron von Toll, was a Baltic German geologist and Arctic explorer. He is most notable for leading the Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902 in search of the legendary Sannikov Land, a phantom island purported to lie off Russia's Arctic coast. During the expedition, Toll and a small party of explorers disappeared from Bennett Island, and their fate remains unknown to this day.