Mihkel Kaljurand (born 1945) is an Estonian chemist and professor emeritus at Tallinn University of Technology. His research has focused on analytical chemistry, especially computerized chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, portable analytical instrumentation and green analytical chemistry. Later overviews of green analytical chemistry have described the 2010 book Green Analytical Chemistry, which he co-authored with Mihkel Koel, as the first book devoted to the subject and an important marker in the field's development.
Jaak Järv (born 5 November 1948) is an Estonian chemist and professor emeritus of organic chemistry at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1997 and served as its secretary general from 2017 to 2024. His research has focused on bioorganic chemistry, especially enzyme catalysis, receptor–ligand interactions, biomimetics, and structure–activity relationships of bioactive compounds.
Voldemar Ilja (13 November 1922 – 16 December 2010) was an Estonian Lutheran clergyman, theologian and church historian. He served congregations in Petseri, Võnnu and Nõmme, taught church history at the Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, and was best known for his six-volume history of the Moravian Church in Estonia and Livonia.
Jaan Elken (born 27 June 1954) is an Estonian painter, art critic, curator and art educator. He emerged in the late Soviet period as a painter associated with hyperrealism and later became known for abstract painting; Estonian art institutions have described him as one of the notable representatives of abstract painting in Estonia. He has also played a prominent organisational role in Estonian art life, serving as chairman of the Estonian Painters' Association from 1995 to 1999 and president of the Estonian Artists' Association from 1999 to 2013, and has taught painting at the University of Tartu. His honours include the Konrad Mägi Art Award, the Kristjan Raud Art Award, the AkzoNobel Art Prize and the Order of the White Star, IV Class.