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TALLINN

Most Famous People Born in Tallinn, Estonia

Notable people

1,274

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1957

Most distinctive

Chess 10.0×

A Hanseatic port whose modern bench is thick with chess masters at ten times the global rate, conductors at eight, and figure skaters at nearly eight — the footprint of a Soviet-era conservatory and sport school that somehow slotted into one of the best-preserved medieval old towns in Europe. Arvo Pärt, Neeme Järvi, and Paavo Järvi all belong to this bench, and the 13th- to 15th-century tail reaches back through Livonian knights and Lübeck merchants.