Notable Alumni
- Agnis Andžāns - Latvian mathematician
- Ingus Baušķenieks - Latvian musician
- Gunārs Birkerts - Latvian American architect
- Uldis Cērps - Chairman of the Financial and Capital Market Commission in Latvia
- Indulis Emsis - Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- Andrejs Ērglis - Latvian cardiologist
- Māris Gailis - Latvian businessman, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- Ivars Godmanis - Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- Garlieb Merkel - Baltic German writer and activist
- Wilhelm Ostwald - Baltic German Nobel Prize winning chemist
- Friedrich Parrot - Baltic German naturalist and traveler
- Kristjan Jaak Peterson - Estonian poet, commonly regarded as the founder of modern Estonian poetry
- Mārtiņš Pļaviņš - Latvian beach volleyball player, 2012 Olympic medalist
- Māris Purgailis - Latvian politician, former Mayor of Riga
- Rainis - Latvian poet and politician
- Einars Repše - Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
- Pēteris Stučka - Latvian politician, head of the Bolshevik government in Latvia during the Latvian War of Independence
- Daina Taimiņa - Latvian mathematician
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