Below is a list of Estonian entomologists.

• Alfonso Dampf Tenson (3 December 1884 Hiiumaa – 17 March 1948 Mexico City) ^[1] worked on multiple groups including Tipulidae, Siphonaptera and Simulidae. It is estimated he collected over a million insect specimens during his career. ^[2]
• Hans Kauri (until 1935, Hans Mühlberg; ^[3] May 30, 1906 – January 30, 1999), ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]} among other things, studied horse-flies, daddy longlegs ( Opiliones), and spiders. He wrote several publications. In 1985 he worked on material from central Africa, which resulted in 61 new species, 12 new genera, and three new sub-families for science. As late as 1998 he produced an overview of spiders on the Hardanger Plateau, edited by Erling Hauge and Torstein Solhøy. ^[7]
• Tõnu Kesküla ( fl. 1997), a lepidopterist, ^[8] described the taxon Parnassius mnemosyne viidaleppi Kesküla & Luig, 1997.
• Olavi Kurina (born 10 September 1966) ^[9] described the taxon Neuratelia jabalmoussae Kurina, Õunap & Põldmaa, 2015.

• Lennart Lennuk (born 27 October 1985) ^[10] described the taxon Dioscore kirke Lindt, Lennuk & Viidalepp, 2017
• Aare Lindt (fl. 2014) ^[11] described the taxa Haruchlora Viidalepp & Lindt, 2014 (Haruchlora maesi) and Vallichlora Viidalepp & Lindt, 2019 (Vallichlora rara, Vallichlora selva).
• Jaan Luig (born 23 June 1959), a lepidopterist, ^[12] described the taxon Parnassius mnemosyne viidaleppi Kesküla & Luig, 1997.
• Erki Õunap (born 5 July 1977) ^[13] described the taxon Neuratelia jabalmoussae Kurina, Õunap & Põldmaa, 2015.
• Aleksander Pototski (born on 8 October 1958), a lepidopterist, ^[14] described the taxon Archedontia Hausmann, Pototski & Viidalepp, 2020 (and the species Archedontia agnesae Hausmann, Pototski & Viidalepp, 2020).
• Villu Soon (born 20 February 1979) ^[15] described the taxon Chrysis borealis Paukkunen, Ødegaard & Soon, 2015.
• Toomas Tammaru (born 3 May 1968 in Tartu), a lepidopterist and professor of entomology at the University of Tartu, ^[16] as well as the editor of the Estonian Naturalists' Society publication Lepinfo, ^[17] worked with Andro Truuverk and Erki Õunap to transfer the butterfly Epirrita pulchraria to the genus Malacodea; ^[18] the butterfly ( Manota toomasi Hippa & Kurina, 2012) is named after him. ^[19]
• Urmas Tartes (born September 19, 1963), an Estonian biologist and nature photographer, ^[20] was the recipient of the Fourth Class of Order of the White Star in 2001 ^[21] and in 2009 won Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year in the category "Animals in their Environment" with a photo of a springtail on a snowflake. ^[22]
• Tõnis Tasane (born 13 December 1986 in Pärnu), a lepidopterist, ^[23] described the taxon Lissochlora janamariae Lindt & Tasane, 2014 .
• Andro Truuverk (born on 23 January 1986), a lepidopterist, ^[24] described the taxon Lasianobia dvoraki Saldaitis, Volynkin & Truuverk, 2018.
• Jaan Viidalepp (born 27 December 1939) ^[25] described the taxon Haruchlora Viidalepp & Lindt, 2014, Pasiphila hyrcanica Viidalepp & Mironov, 2006, and Vallichlora Viidalepp & Lindt 2019.