Ene-Liis Semper (born 4 April 1969) is an Estonian video artist, performance artist, scenographer and theatre director. She studied scenography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and first came to prominence in the 1990s for video and performance works centred on corporeality, risk and psychological tension. In 2001 she represented Estonia at the Venice Biennale, where Harald Szeemann selected her video FF/REW for the international exhibition Plateau of Humankind. Since 2004 she has been closely associated with Theatre NO99, which she founded with Tiit Ojasoo and led as one of its creative heads until the theatre closed in 2018.
Andrus Saar (21 November 1946 – 28 May 2015) was an Estonian sociologist, media scholar, lecturer and public-opinion researcher. He founded and led the survey-research company Saar Poll and was closely associated with the development of Estonian media research, public-opinion polling, and comparative values studies.
Alo Raun (8 May 1905 – 14 June 2004) was an Estonian linguist whose work focused on Finno-Ugric languages, Turkic languages, and the Estonian language. After teaching at the University of Tartu and the Baltic University in postwar Germany, he spent most of his later academic career at Indiana University Bloomington, where he was professor of linguistics from 1952 to 1975.
Jaan-Mati Punning (13 March 1940 – 21 November 2009) was an Estonian geochemist, paleogeographer and ecologist. His work focused on isotope geochemistry, radiocarbon dating, Quaternary and Holocene environmental history, and long-term human impact on northern European landscapes and lakes. He was professor of geoecology at Tallinn University, director of the Institute of Ecology from 1992 to 2005, and president of the Estonian Geographical Society from 1985 until his death.