List of personalities of the city of Reval
This is a list of personalities associated with the city of Reval .
- Theodoric of Estonia († June 15, 1219 in the camp near Reval), Cistercian, Bishop of Estonia, founder of the Order of the Swords
- Hugo Henricus von Zierenberg († September 17, 1319 in Reval), merchant and knight of the order, appointed by the emperor as mayor
- Didericus Zierenberg († December 6, 1345 in Reval), his son, mayor
- Johann Lüneburg (* Lübeck; † April 2, 1373 in Reval), Lübeck councilor
- Johann Stolterfoht , (* around 1495 in Reval; † September 29, 1548 there), Lübeck councilor
- Klaus Kursell († 1558 in Reval), Swedish military
- Andreas Virginius (born November 9, 1596 in Schwessin, † December 20, 1664 in Reval), Lutheran theologian
- Fabian von Aderkas (* before 1605; † 1683 in Reval), Swedish major general
- Johannes Küster von Rosenberg (* approx. 1615 in Gadebusch; † February 22, 1685 in Reval), German physician
- Maria Sofia De la Gardie (born 1627 in Reval; died August 22, 1694 in Stockholm)
- Lebrecht von dem Bussche (born October 15, 1666 in Haddenhausen, † April 10, 1715 in Reval), Russian major general and governor of Riga
- Peter August (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck) († 1775 in Reval), Duke and Field Marshal General
- Joachim von Sievers (born April 6, 1719 in Moscow, † December 29, 1778 in Reval), Russian general and lieutenant governor of Estonia
- Peter Heinrich the Elder Blanckenhagen (born October 3, 1723 in Reval, † January 7, 1794 in Riga), Baltic merchant
- Ernst August Wilhelm Hoerschelmann (born April 19, 1743 in Großrudestedt, † October 28, 1795 in Reval), Lutheran theologian, educator and philosopher
- Elisabeth Mara (born February 23, 1749 in Kassel; † January 20, 1833 in Reval), opera singer
- Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (born July 14, 1767 in Quedlinburg, † June 30, 1826 in Reval), German philologist, educator and writer
- Karl von Kügelgen (born February 6, 1772, Bacharach am Rhein; † January 9, 1832 in Reval), landscape and history painter, Russian court and cabinet painter
- Sophie Tieck (born February 28, 1775 in Berlin, † October 1, 1833 in Reval), German poet and writer
- Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen (* 1782; † 1805), Baltic-Russian wing adjudant
- Heinrich Carl Ludwig von Löwenstern (born December 5, 1783 in Kuikatz, † June 1, 1843 in Reval), Vice Governor
- Paul Friedrich von Benckendorff (* December 1784 Gatchina; † December 1841 in Reval), Swedish-Baltic state politician
- Otto Magnus von Grünewaldt (born June 26, 1801 in Koik, † October 6, 1890 in Reval), Estonian politician and farmer
- Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (born August 22, 1801 in Berlin, † May 2, 1884 in Reval), Russian general
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm (* November 1812 in Ratzeburg, † February 1883 in Reval), educator, ethnologist and historian
- Wilhelm von Kotzebue (born March 19, 1813 in Reval; † November 5, 1887 there), diplomat and writer
- Peter Helmling (born September 9, 1817 in Erbach (Odenwald), † April 11, 1901 in Reval), mathematician
- Arthur Girard de Soucanton (born March 19, 1819 in Reval, † October 20, 1884 in Reval), entrepreneur and politician
- Karl von Paucker (December 1820 † August 1883 in Reval), classical philologist
- Gotthard von Hansen (born August 10, 1821 in Reval; † August 28, 1900 there), city archivist of Reval
- Heinrich Stiehl (born August 5, 1829 in Lübeck, † May 1, 1886 in Reval), German composer, organist and conductor
- Theodor Albert Sprengel (born September 30, 1832 in Wollershausen, Kingdom of Hanover, † July 4, 1900 in Reval), German-Baltic painter from the Düsseldorf School, art teacher and writer
- Eugen Edmund Erbe (born November 5, 1847 in Reval; † January 22, 1908 there), Mayor of Reval
- Julius von Paucker († November 1856 in Reval), German-Estonian legal scholar and historian
- Nikolai Ottowitsch von Essen (* December 1860 Saint Petersburg, † May 1915 in Reval), Russian admiral
- Andreas von Antropoff (born August 16, 1878 in Reval, † June 2, 1956 in Bonn), German chemist
- Artur Lemba (born September 24, 1885 in Reval, † November 21, 1963 in Tallinn), Estonian composer