He composed Estonian national epic and worked as the doctor in Võru from 1833-1877.
What is Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald.
100
His birthday on March 14 is celebrated in Estonia as the Mother Tongue Day.
What is Kristjan Jaak Peterson.
100
He was the husband of Ellen Niit and the most translated and internationally best-known.He was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.
What is Jaan Kross.
200
He composed music from the age of six.
What is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
200
He was the Emperor of France, conquered several European countries.
What is Napoleon Bonaparte.
200
He was an Estonian writer, physician and philologist who published his well-known story "Dawn and Dusk" in 1840.
What is Friedrich Robert Faehlmann.
200
He gave to Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen the pen name "Lydia of the Dawn"
What is Carl Robert Jakobson.
200
He was the first Estonian President.
What is Konstantin Päts.
300
He invented the telescope and was the first to claim that the earth moved round the sun.
What is Galileo.
300
She was one of the reatest Estonian poets (1883-1980).
What is Marie Under.
300
He is best remembered for winning two gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
What is Kristjan Palusalu.
300
He began his medical studies at the University of Dorpat in Estonia in 1810. He was a scientist and a founding father of embryology.His portrait was on Estonian banknote too.
What is Karl Ernst von Baer.
400
She was the Queen of England who reigned in the 16th century.
What is Queen Elizabeth I.
400
He campaigned and fought for civil rights, was assassinated in 1968.His famous talk started with the words "I have a dream...."
What is Martin Luther King.
400
He was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer who was nicknamed "The Eternal Second".
What is Paul Keres.
400
He was an Estonian opera singer (1920-1975). He was also very popular in Finland and Russia.
What is Georg Ots.
400
He was the third Estonian President.
What is Arnold Rüütel.
500
She discovered the chemical element, radium.
What is Marie Curie.
500
He was the first head of the People´s Republic of China.
What is Mao Tse Tung.
500
He was an Estonian politician, writer, film director and statesman who served as the 2nd President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.
What is Lennart Meri.
500
He was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature.