Paul Eerik Rummo
Poet
Estonian poet and politician who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. He served as Estonian Minister of Population and Ethnic Affairs during the first decade of the twenty-first century.
He studied literature at Tartu University, graduating in 1965.
He served as Estonian Minister of Culture and Education from 1992 to 1994.
His father, Paul Rummo, was a prominent Estonian writer.
He was born in the same country as fellow writer Lilli Promet.