A.H. Tammsaare, born Anton Hansen, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice (Tõde ja õigus; 1926 – 1933) is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel". Tammsaare was born in 1878 into a farming family. He attended secondary school in Tartu from 1898 to 1903 and from 1903 to 1905 he worked as an editor at the Tallinn newspaper, Teataja. In Tallinn he was able to witness the Russian Revolution of 1905. In 1907 he enrolled as a law student at Tartu University, but in 1911 he was unable to sit his finals, as he became very ill with tuberculosis. He was moved to Sochi on the Black Sea and then to the Caucasus Mountains, where his condition improved. On his return to Estonia, he lived for six years on his brother's farm where he was again affected by illness. Unable to work, he threw himself into his studies and mastered English, French, Finnish and Swedish. After his marriage in 1920 he moved to Tallinn and embarked on the most productive period of his life. His greatest influences were the Russian classics of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Gogol, butt his work also shows the influence of Oscar Wilde, Knut Hamsun and Andre Gide. He occupies a central place in the development of the Estonian novel and is a figure of European significance.

Lennart Georg Meri was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement. In 1941, the Meri family was deported to Siberia along with thousands of other Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians sharing the same fate. Heads of the family were separated from their families and shut into concentration camps where few survived. At the age of twelve, Lennart Meri worked as a lumberman in Siberia. He also worked as a potato peeler and a rafter to support his family. Whilst in exile, Lennart Meri grew interested in the other Uralic languages that he heard around him, the language family of which his native Estonian is also a part. His interest in the ethnic and cultural kinship amongst the scattered Uralic family had been a life-long theme within his work. The Meri family survived and found their way back to Estonia where Lennart Meri graduated cum laude from the Faculty of History and Languages of the University of Tartu in 1953. On 5 March 1953, the day of Joseph Stalin's death, he proposed to his first wife Regina Meri, saying "Let us remember this happy day forever." The politics of the Soviet Union did not allow him to work as a historian, so Meri found work as a dramatist in the Vanemuine, the oldest theatre of Estonia, and later on as a producer of radio plays in the Estonian broadcasting industry. Several of his films were released to great critical acclaim. Continue reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_...

Mati Unt was an Estonian writer, essayist and theatre director. Unt's first novel, written at the age of 18 after having finished high school, was Hüvasti, kollane kass (Goodbye, Yellow Cat). This made him famous all over Estonia. He studied literature and journalism at Tartu University in Tartu, Estonia. After this precocious beginning‚ Unt arranged a wide call in the artistic and intellectual circles of Estonia as a writer of the fiction, plays, and criticism. His books The Moon Like the Outgoing Sun, The Debt (1964), On the Existence of life in space, and The Black Motorcyclist rocketed Unt to the top of the novelist world in Estonia. In addition, he served a purpose in bringing avantgarde theatre to post-Soviet Union Estonia. Unt was well known as a theatre director. In 1981, he became a director of the Youth Theatre in Tallinn. In 1979, his novel Autumn Ball (adapted to a movie in 2007 by Veiko Õunpuu) brought him international recognition. Other books include 1990s Notebook of a Donor and the 2001 play Graal!. Films based on Unt's works Tühirand and Sügisball have been created after his death. Mati Unt died in 2005. He is buried in the Metsakalmistu cemetery in Tallinn.

Jakob Johann Baron von Uexküll was a German biologist. He was the father of Thure von Uexküll, M.D. and grandfather of Jakob von Uexküll.

Hando Runnel omandas alghariduse Jalgsemal, Amblas ja Järva-Jaani[2], keskhariduse Tartu 1. Keskkoolis ja Paide Keskkoolis. Hiljem õppis Eesti Põllumajanduse Akadeemias agronoomiat, mis jäi lõpetamata. Töötas Loomingu toimetuses. Aastal 1992 asutas kirjastuse Ilmamaa. Runnel on sarja Eesti mõttelugu peatoimetaja aastast 1995. 1992-93 aastail oli ta esimene kutsutud Tartu Ülikooli vabade kunstide professor. Temast sai Eesti ainus professor (ja paarkümmend aastat hiljem ka ainuke akadeemik), kes pole lõpetatud ühtegi kõrgkooli. 5. detsembril 2012 valis Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia üldkogu Hando Runneli akadeemikuks kirjanduse alal[3]. Oli Eesti Kongressi ja Põhiseaduse Assamblee liige. Looming "Maa lapsed" (1965) "Laulud tüdrukuga" (1967) "Avalikud laulud" (1970) "Lauluraamat ehk Mõõganeelaja ehk Kurbade kaitseks" (1972) "Miks ja miks" (luuleraamat lastele, 1973) "Mõru ning mööduja" (1976) "Mere ääres, metsa taga" (luuleraamat lastele, 1977) "Kodu-käija" (valikkogu, 1978) "Punaste õhtute purpur" (1982) "Mõtelda on mõnus" (luuleraamat lastele, 1982) "Ei hõbedat, kulda" (essee- ja kriitikakogumik, 1984) "Juturaamat" (proosaraamat lastele, 1986) "Laulud eestiaegsetele meestele" (1988) "Mõõk ja peegel" (esseed, 1988) "Aja lugu" (laulukava, 1988) "Taadi tütar" (luuleraamat lastele, sisaldab laule, 1989) "Isamaavajadus" (poliitilise publitsistika valimik, 1991) "Oli kevad, oli suvi" (1992) "Juhan Luiga ja vene küsimus" (Tartu Ülikooli aulas 8. oktoobril 1993 peetud loengu tekst, 1993) "Üle Alpide" (1997) "Haruldused" (1998) "Jooksu pealt suudeldud" (artiklite ja esseede kogumik, 1998) "Küüni täitmine" (näidend, koos Madis Kõivuga, 1998) "Mõistatused" (2000) "Omad" (2002) "Õpetussõnad" (2003) "Suureks saamine: laste laulud ammu ja homme" (lasteluule ja lastelaulude valikkogu, 2004). Seda teost müüdi 2004. aastal 6879 eksemplari, millega oli läbimüügilt Eesti aasta 13. raamat, sealjuures müüduim eesti ilukirjandusteos [4]. "Sinamu" (2005) "Viru veri ei värise. Armastuse laulud" (2006) "Armukahi" (2008) "Väravahingede kriiksumist kuulnud" (esseekogumik, 2008) "Videvik" (2009) "Vee peal käimine keelatud". Loomingu Raamatukogu 2011, nr 1-2. ISBN 9789949428786 Hando Runnel on olnud ka paljude kogumike koostaja: "Valguse riie ei vanu" (Kalju Lepiku luulekogumik) "Kui meil veel püksa ei olnud. Jaan Lattik." "Eesti kirjanduslugu. Gustav Suits." "Minu elu. Konstantin Päts."

Mihkel Mutt studied philology and journalism at the University of Tartu from 1971 to 1976. After completing his studies, he was an editor at a publishing house and for various literary journals until 1987. He's been also a dramatist at a youth theater (Noorsooteater), worked for weekly newspapers. and written scripts for TV-series. Mihkel Mutt was a member of the literary cooperative "Kupar" that was founded in 1987 by ten writers as the first non-state publishing house in the former Soviet Union. From 1992 to 1999 he was the president of PEN Estonia From 1997 to 2005 Mutt headed the cultural journal Sirp. He has been the editor-in-chief of Estonia's foremost literary magazine Looming since November 2005. Mihkel Mutt made his name as a theatre and literary critic and satirist in the early 1970s. His first short stories were published at the end of the decade and his first book came out in 1980. His early prose is characterized by irony and satire. His novels deal with socio-cultural and interpersonal issues, marriage problems etc. Many of his characters are urban intellectuals or artistically inclined dropouts. In his latest novels he has documented the arrival of the free-market economy and open society in Estonia and their impact on various social groups. Beside novels and stories he has published travel books and books for children and continued as a prolific cultural critic. After the restoration of Estonia's independence he started writing columns for various newspapers (mainly about social issues and world politics). He has translated angloamerican authors for the stage (A.Wesker, T.Stoppard, E.O'Neill, D.Pownall etc.) He has been awarded with the Tuglas' Prize (for the best short story of an year in 1981 and 2007) and has twice received the Virumaa Literature Prize for the best historical novel of an year (in 1994 for Rahvusvaheline mees, describing Estonia's pursuit for international recognition, and Kooparahvas läheb ajalukku, whick looks back at the past half a century in Estonia's history. Among his books are novels, short story collections, children's books, travel diaries, essays and criticism, memoires and a play.