People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Jaan Tõnisson Jaan Tõnisson Estonian prime minister who concluded the Treaty of Tartu, publisher of Postimees
- Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts Head of Estonia's government in the independence war, later dictator of the 'era of silence'
- Jüri Uluots Jüri Uluots Law professor and Estonia’s last constitutional prime minister who, acting as president, formed the Tief government in 1944
- Johannes Vares Johannes Vares Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union
- Hjalmar Mäe Hjalmar Mäe Estonian Vaps politician who headed the collaborationist Estonian Self-Administration under German occupation in 1941–1944
- Arnold Rüütel Arnold Rüütel The agronomist who pushed a sovereignty declaration through the Soviet system and led Estonia out of the empire