Honorary Doctorates
- Umberto Eco, semiotician and novelist
- Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
- Vello Helk, historian
- Otto Kaiser, Protestant theologian
- Ulrich Knauer, mathematician
- Ivan Pavlov, physiologist
- Arvo Pärt, classical composer
- Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
- Thure von Uexküll, semiotician and medical scientist
- Folke Sjöqvist, physician, clinical pharmacologist
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