List of Tartu University people
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This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Tartu at Tartu, Estonia.
Nobel laureate

Humanities and social sciences
- Jüri Allik, psychologist
- Walter Anderson, folklorist
- Paul Ariste, linguist
- Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
- Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist
- August von Bulmerincq, legal scholar
- Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
- Gustav von Ewers, legal historian
- Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar, supported by Albert Einstein
- Theodosius Harnack, Lutheran theologian
- Siim Kallas, economist and politician (EU Commissioner; former Prime Minister)
- Andres Kasekamp, historian
- Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
- Jaan Kross, writer
- Kalevi Kull, biosemiotician
- Madis Kõiv, philosopher and physicist
- Helga Kurm, Dean of the Pedagogical Division
- Marju Lepajõe, classical philologist and religious historian
- Étienne Laspeyres, economist and statistician
- Wilhelm Lexis, economist, insurance scholar
- Eero Loone, philosopher
- Mihhail Lotman, semiotician
- Juri Lotman, semiotician, historian of literature
- Uku Masing, theologian and poet
- Zara Mints, literary scholar
- Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, philologist
- Salme Nõmmik, economic geographer
- Alexander von Oettingen, Lutheran theologian, famous as statistics theoretician
- Ludwig Preller, philologist and antiquarian
- Villem Raam, art historian
- Konstantin Ramul, psychologist
- Leonid Stolovich, philosopher (aesthetic)
- Rein Taagepera, political scientist
- Gustav Teichmüller, philosopher
- Peeter Torop, semiotician
- Grigol Tsereteli, classicist and papyrologist
- Jüri Uluots, lawyer and politician
- Jaan Valsiner, psychologist
- Alexander Vasiliev, Byzantinist and Arabist
- Adolph Wagner, economist and social policy scholar
Natural science
- Marlon Dumas, computer scientist
- Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist
- Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
- Friedrich Bidder, physiologist and anatomist
- Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge, botanist
- Karl Friedrich Burdach, biologist
- Jaan Einasto, astrophysicist
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist and explorer
- Moses Wolf Goldberg, chemist
- Germain Henri Hess, chemist
- Jaan Kalviste, chemist, mineralogist, educator and translator
- Toomas Kivisild, geneticist
- Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
- Kalevi Kull, biologist
- Olevi Kull, ecologist
- Eerik Kumari, ornithologist
- Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist, embryologist
- Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (professor of natural sciences, 1811–1836), botanist
- Anders Lindstedt (1854-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science.
- Teodor Lippmaa, botanist
- Viktor Masing, ecologist
- Andres Metspalu, biotechnologist
- Carl Anton von Meyer, botanist
- Ferdinand Morawitz, entomologist
- Arthur von Oettingen, physicist
- Georg von Oettingen, physician
- Ernst Öpik, astronomer
- Georg Friedrich Parrot, physicist
- Riinu Rannap, zoologist
- August Rauber, anatomist
- Alma Johanna Ruubel, mathematician
- Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist
- Carl Schmidt, chemist
- Oswald Schmiedeberg, pharmacologist
- Peter Hermann Stillmark, founder of lectinology
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer
- Eduard Toll, polar explorer
- Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, botanist