Mait Metsanurk [SEP] country of citizenship
, the historical novel "Ümera jõel" (On the Ümera River) (1934), depicts the struggle of the pagan Estonians against the Danish and German conquest in the thirteenth century. In addition, he worked as a literary critic and translator. 
In 1924/25 and from 1930 to 1936 Mait Metsanurk was chairman of the Estonian Writers' Union. 
With the Soviet occupation of Estonia Mait Metsanurk was sidelined politically and expelled from the Writers' Union. Mait Metsanurk was rehabilitated in 1956, after the death of Stalin.
singer
- Mait Mihkel Mathiesen (1949–2005), politician
- Mait Metsanurk (1879–1957), writer
- Mait Müntel (born 1977), physicist
- Mait Patrail (born 1988), handball player
- Mait Püümets (1882–1965), physician and politician
- Mait Raun (born 1963), writer
- Mait Riisman (born 1956), water polo player