From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of notable
Baltic Germans.
Art and literature
Architects
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Alfred Aschenkampff (1858–1914), architect (Latvia)
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Paul Max Bertschy (1840–1911), city architect of
Liepāja (Latvia)
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Bernhard Bielenstein (1877–1959), architect (Latvia)
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Wilhelm Bockslaff (1858–1945), architect (Latvia)
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Johann Felsko (1813–1902), architect (Latvia)
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Karl Felsko, (1844–1918), architect (Latvia)
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Christoph Haberland (1750–1803), architect (Latvia)
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Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883), architect (Estonia)
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Erich Jacoby (1885–1941), architect (Estonia)
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Paul Mandelstamm (1872–1941), architect (Latvia)
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Robert Natus (1890–1950), architect (Estonia)
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Robert Pflug (1832–1885), architect (Latvia)
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August Reinberg (1860–1908), architect (Latvia)
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Jacques Rosenbaum (1878–1944), architect (Estonia)
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Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany)
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Max Scherwinsky (1859–1909), architect and designer (Latvia)
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Edmund von Trompowsky (1851–1919), architect (Latvia)
Artists
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Christian Ackermann (died 1710), wood carver and sculptor (Estonia)
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Johann Heinrich Baumann (1753–1832), painter (Latvia)
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Karl Hans Bernewitz (1858–1934), sculptor (Latvia)
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Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930), painter (Estonia)
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Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), artist (Latvia)
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Mikhail Clodt (1832–1902), painter (Russia)
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Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (1805–1867), sculptor (Russia)
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Franz Burchard Dörbeck (1799–1835), graphic artist and caricaturist
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Jacob Heinrich Elbfas (c. 1600–1664), painter (Sweden)
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Eduard von Gebhardt (1838–1925), painter
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Wilhelm August Golicke (1802–1848), painter
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Eduard Hau (1807–1888), painter
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Woldemar Hau (1816–1896), painter
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August Matthias Hagen (1794–1878), painter
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Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824–1902), painter, daughter of the above
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Vasily Helmersen (1873–1893), artist and book illustrator
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Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States)
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Franz Hoppenstätt (died 1657/1658), wood carver (Estonia)
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George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968), fashion photographer
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Alexander Julius Klünder, (1802–1875), portrait painter
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Alexander Kotzebue (1815–1889), painter
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Gerhard von Kügelgen (1772–1820), portrait and history painter
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Karl von Kügelgen (1772–1832), landscape and history painter
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Konstantin von Kügelgen (1810–1880), landscape painter
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Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (1812–1874), painter
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Carl Timoleon von Neff (1804–1877), painter (Estonia)
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August Georg Wilhelm Pezold (1794–1859), painter and lithographer
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Nikolaus Roerich (1874–1947), painter and philosopher (Russia)
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1837), archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
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Egon von Vietinghoff (1903–1994), painter and philosopher (Germany, Switzerland)
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Gottlieb Welté (1745/49–1792), etcher and landscape painter
Authors and writers
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Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist
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Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist
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Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden)
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Anton Delvig (1798–1831), poet and journalist (Russia)
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Helene von Engelhardt (1850–1910)
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Nikolai Erdman (1900–1970), poet and playwright (Soviet Union)
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Julie Hausmann (1826–1901), poet
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Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), poet, novelist, and painter (Germany)
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Eduard von Keyserling (1855–1918), writer and playwright
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August von Kotzebue (1761–1819), playwright (Germany)
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Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797–1846), poet and
Decembrist (Russia)
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Anatol Lieven (born 1960), author, journalist, and policy analyst (United Kingdom)
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Garlieb Merkel (1769–1850), writer and public activist
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Elisa von der Recke (1754–1833), writer and poet
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Gleb Struve (1898–1985), poet and literary historian (United States)
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Frank Thiess (1890–1977), writer (Germany)
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Jakob von Uexkull (born 1944), writer and politician (Germany)
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Peter Ernst Wilde (1732–1785), physician and journalist (Estonia)
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Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), writer and literary scientist
Entertainment
Actors and actresses
Musicians
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John Christian Bechler (1784–1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
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Eduard Erdmann (1896–1958), pianist, composer, professor (Germany)
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Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979), comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet
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Eduard Mertke (1833–1895), composer and music teacher
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Lena Meyer-Landrut (born 1991), singer (Germany)
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Carl David Stegmann (1751–1826), tenor and composer
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Raimund von zur-Mühlen (1854–1931), tenor and music educator
Entrepreneurs
Explorers
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Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt (1834–1888), explorer
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Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
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Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778–1852), explorer (Russia)
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Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890), botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
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Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), geologist and explorer (Russia)
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Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
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Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), naturalist and explorer
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Ludwig von Hagemeister (1780–1833), seafarer and explorer (Russia)
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Carl von Hoffman (1889–1982), soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer (United States)
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Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia)
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Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846), explorer (Russia)
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Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), explorer (Russia)
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Friedrich von Lütke (1797–1898), navigator and geographer (Russia)
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Richard Maack (1825–1886), biologist, geographer and explorer (Russia)
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Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
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Michael von Reinken (1801–1859), vice-admiral and hydrographer (Russia)
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Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
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Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
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Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
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Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), botanist and explorer
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Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), geologist and explorer (Russia)
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Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797–1870), explorer (Russia)
Military
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Alexander of Courland (1658–1686), prince and military commander (Prussia)
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Władysław Anders (1892–1970), military commander and politician (Poland)
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Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761–1818), military commander (Russia)
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Alexander von Benckendorff (1783–1844), military commander (Russia)
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Konstantin von Benckendorff (1785–1828), military commander and diplomat (Russia)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg (1793–1874), military commander (Russia)
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Karl Ludwig von Budberg (1775–1829), military commander (Russia)
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden (1750–1811), military commander (Russia)
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Magnus Gustav von Essen (1759–1813), military commander (Russia)
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Eduard von Totleben (1818–1884), engineer-general (Russia)
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Nikolai von Essen (1860–1915), admiral (Russia)
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Peter Kirillovich Essen (1772–1844), military commander (Russia)
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Jürgen von Farensbach (1551–1602), military commander (Livonia)
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William Fermor (1702–1771), military commander (Russia)
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Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899–1944), colonel and member of the
Widerstand (Nazi Germany)
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Adrian von Fölkersahm (1914–1945), military commander (Nazi Germany)
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Dmitry Gustavovich von Fölkersahm (1846–1905), admiral (Russia)
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Maksimas Katche (1879–1933), military commander (Russia, Lithuania)
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Alexander von Kaulbars (1844–1925) military commander and explorer (Russia)
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Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (1801–1884), military officer (Russia)
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Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790), military commander
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Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia)
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Eugen Ludwig Müller (1867–1939), military commander (Russia)
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Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683–1767), military commander (Russia)
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Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken (1752–1837), field marshal (Russia)
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Johann Patkul (1660–1707), politician and military commander (Sweden, Poland, Russia)
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Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), Master of
Livonian Order
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Paul von Rennenkampf (1854–1918), military commander (Russia)
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Ernst von Stackelberg (1813–1870), diplomat and military figure
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Georg von Stackelberg (1851–1913), cavalry general (Russia)
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Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921), military commander (Russia)
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Viktor von Wahl (1840–1915), military commander and politician
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Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
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Carl Henrik Wrangel (1681–1755), military commander (Sweden)
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Herman Wrangel (1587–1643), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
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Pyotr Nikolayevich von Wrangel (1878–1928), military commander (Russia)
Philosophers
Politicians and diplomats
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Ernst Johann von Biron (1690–1772), Duke of Courland
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Peter von Biron (1724–1800), Duke of Courland
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Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1750–1812), diplomat and politician (Russia)
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Andreas von Budberg-Bönninghausen (1817–1881), diplomat (Russia)
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Sophie von Buxhoeveden (1883–1956), lady in waiting to Tsarina Alexandra of Russia
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Balthasar von Campenhausen (1772–1823), politician (Russia)
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Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia)
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Stanisław Ernest Denhoff (1673–1728), noble and statesman (Poland)
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Kasper Doenhoff (1587–1645), courtier and diplomat (Poland)
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Ernst Magnus Dönhoff (1581–1642), noble and diplomat
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Princess Dorothea of Courland (1793–1862), noblewoman
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Hans Reinhold von Fersen (1683–1786), military commander and politician (Sweden)
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Reinhold Johan von Fersen (1646–1716), county governor (Sweden)
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Ferdinand Kettler (1655–1737), Duke of Courland
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Friedrich Kettler (1569–1642), Duke of Courland
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Frederick William Kettler (1692–1711), Duke of Courland
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Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650–1698), Duke of Courland
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Gotthard Kettler (1517–1587), last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland
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Jacob Kettler (1610–1682), Duke of Courland
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Wilhelm Kettler (1574–1640), Duke of Courland
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Andreas Meyer-Landrut (born 1929), diplomat (Germany)
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Christoph von Lieven (1774–1839), military commander, politician and diplomat (Russia)
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Dorothea von Lieven (1785–1857), noblewoman and diplomat (Russia)
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Christoph Johann von Medem (1763–1838), courtier (Russia)
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Dorothea von Medem (1761–1821), last
Duchess of Courland
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Karl Robert von Nesselrode (1780–1862), diplomat (Russia)
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Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, (1745–1826), military Governor of
St. Petersburg from 1798 to 1801, played pivotal role in the assassination of
Emperor Paul.
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Johann Patkul (1660–1707), politician and military commander (Sweden, Poland, Russia)
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Adolf Pilar von Pilchau (1851–1925), politician, regent of the
United Baltic Duchy
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Wolter von Plettenberg (1450–1535), Master of
Livonian Order
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Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), politician, Nazi ideologist and architect, and convicted war criminal (Germany)
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Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884–1923), politician (Nazi Germany)
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Jacob von Sievers (1731–1808), politician (Russia)
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Ernest Stackelberg (1813–1870), diplomat and military figure
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Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg (1766–1850), diplomat (Russia)
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1736–1800), diplomat (Russia)
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Karl von Struve (1835–1907), politician and diplomat (Russia)
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Jakob von Uexkull (born 1944), writer and politician (Germany)
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Victor von Wahl (1840–1915), military commander and politician
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Princess Wilhelmine (1781–1839), noble and the Duchess of Sagan
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Sergei Witte (1849–1915), first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire (Russia)
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Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613–1676), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
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Olaf von Wrangel (1928–2009), journalist and politician, member of Bundestag (Germany)
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Herman Wrangel (1587–1643), military commander and statesman (Sweden)
Religion
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Albert of Riga (Albert von Buxthoeven, 1165–1229), Bishop of Riga
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Alexy II of Moscow (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929–2008), Patriarch of Moscow
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John Christian Bechler (1784–1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
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Anna Hedvig Büll (1887–1981), Christian missionary
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Reinhold von Buxhoeveden (died 1557), Bishop of
Ösel-Wiek
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Hermann of Dorpat (1163–1248), first Bishop of Dorpat
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Oscar von Gebhardt (1844–1906), Lutheran theologian
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Barbara von Krüdener (1764–1824), mystic
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Hermann Wesel (died 1563), ecclesiastic and the last Bishop of Dorpat
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Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), Lutheran theologian and church historian (Germany)
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Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983), Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer
Scientists
Astronomers and cosmologists
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Wilhelm Anderson (1880–1940), astrophysicist
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Magnus Georg Paucker (1787–1855), astronomer and mathematician
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Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864), astronomer (Russia)
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Georg Hermann Struve (1886–1933), astronomer (Germany)
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Hermann Struve (1854–1920), astronomer (Russia)
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Ludwig Struve (1858–1920), astronomer (Russia)
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Otto Struve (1897–1963), astronomer (Russia, United States)
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Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819–1905), astronomer (Russia)
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Wilfried Struve (1914–1992), astronomer (Germany)
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Gustav Andreas Tammann (1932–2019), astronomer (Germany, Switzerland)
Biologists and paleontologists
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Hermann Martin Asmuss (1812–1859),
paleozoologist (Estonia)
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Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
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Theodor Friedrich Julius Basiner (1816–1842), botanist
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Friedrich Bidder (1810–1894), physiologist and anatomist (Russia)
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Theophil Joachim Heinrich Bienert (1833–1873), botanist
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Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890), botanist (Russia)
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Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist and naturalist
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
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Gustav Flor (1829–1883), zoologist
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Peter von Glehn (1835–1876), botanist
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Alexander von Keyserling (1815–1891), geologist and paleontologist
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Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902), anatomist
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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1785–1851), botanist (Russia)
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Harald von Loudon (1876–1959), ornithologist
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Johann Marcusen (1817–1894), ichthyologist
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Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem (1912–1984), zoologist
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Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894), zoologist and explorer
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Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), chemist, winner of the
Nobel prize in Chemistry
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Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), chemist and biologist (Germany)
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Heinz Christian Pander (1794–1865), biologist, embryologist and paleontologist
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Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), biologist and medical scientist
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Christian Nikolai Richard Pohle (1869–1926), botanist
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Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
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Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
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Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist and semiotician (Germany)
Chemists and material scientists
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Andreas von Antropoff (1878–1956), chemist, postulated neutronium
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Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), chemist and naturalist
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Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), chemist
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Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), chemist and Nobel laureate (Germany)
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Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), chemist and biologist (Germany)
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Carl Schmidt (1822–1894), chemist (Russia)
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Heinrich Wilhelm von Struve (1822–1908), chemist (Russia)
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Gustav Tammann (1861–1938), chemist
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Peter P. von Weymarn (1879–1935), chemist (Russia)
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Margarete von Wrangell (1877–1932), agricultural chemist and the first female full professor at a German university
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Theodor Grotthuss (1785–1822), electrochemist
Earth scientists
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Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, founder of embryology
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Karl von Ditmar (1822–1892), geologist and explorer (Russia)
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Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
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Gregor von Helmersen (1803–1885), geologist
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Carl Hiekisch (1840–1901), geographer
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Alexander Keyserling (1815–1891), geologist and paleontologist
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Fyodor Litke (Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke, 1797–1898), navigator and geographer (Russia)
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Otto Schmidt (1891–1956), mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist (Soviet Union)
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Alexander von Schrenk (1816–1876), mineralogist, botanist and expeditionist (Russia)
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Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
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Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), botanist and explorer
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Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), geologist and explorer (Russia)
Economists and sociologists
Historians and archeologists
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Georg Dehio (1850–1932), art historian
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Paul Einhorn (died 1655), historian (Latvia)
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Gustav von Ewers (1779–1830), legal historian and scholar (Russia)
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Jean Baptiste Holzmayer (1839–1890), teacher, archeologist and folklorist (Estonia)
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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1786–1937), archaeologist, writer, art historian and painter
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Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel (1881–1941), art historian
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Richard Otto Zöpffel (1843–1891), theologist and church historian
Linguists and ethnographers
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Nikolai Anderson (1845–1905), philologist
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Walter Anderson (1885–1962), folklorist
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August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein (1826–1907), linguist, folklorist, ethnographer and theologian
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Peter A. Boodberg (1903–1972), sinologist (United States)
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Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), sinologist
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Johann Christoph Brotze (1742–1823), pedagogue and ethnographer
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Elena Lieven (born 1947), psycholinguist and cognitive scientist (United Kingdom)
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Carl Salemann (1850-1916), Iranist
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Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), zoologist, geographer and ethnographer (Russia)
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Alexander von Staël-Holstein (1877–1937), orientalist, sinologist, sanskritologist (Estonia)
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Vasily Vasilievich Struve (1889–1965), orientalist (Soviet Union)
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Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist and semiotician (Germany)
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Thure von Uexküll (1908–2004), semiotician (Germany)
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Alexander Vostokov (1781–1864), philologist (Russia)
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Edgar de Wahl (1867–1948), linguist (Estonia)
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Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1805–1887), linguist (Estonia)
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Gero von Wilpert (1933–2009), writer and literary scientist
Mathematicians
Physicians and psychologists
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Ernst von Bergmann (1836–1907), surgeon (Germany)
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Eugen Bostroem (1850–1928), pathologist
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Arthur Böttcher (1831–1889), pathologist and anatomist
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Isidorus Brennsohn (1854–1928), doctor of medicine and biographer
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Karl Gottfried Konstantin Dehio (1851–1927), internist and pathologist
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Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), geologist and physician (Russia)
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), biologist, physician and explorer (Russia)
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Woldemar Kernig (1840–1917), physician
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Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829–1902), anatomist
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Elena Lieven, psycholinguist and cognitive scientist (United Kingdom)
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Werner Zoege von Manteuffel (1857–1926), medical surgeon
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Georg von Oettingen (1824–1916), ophthalmologist
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Friedrich Parrot (1791–1841), biologist and medical scientist
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Zacharias Stopius (
c. 1535 – end of the 16th or early 17th century), doctor and astronomer
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Thure von Uexküll (1908–2004), semiotician (Germany)
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Eduard Georg von Wahl (1833–1890), surgeon
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Justus Heinrich Wigand (1769–1817), obstetrician
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Peter Ernst Wilde (1732–1785), physician and journalist
Physicists
Theologians
Other scientists and engineers
Sports
Chess players
Other
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