Tammsaare A.H. (Anton Hansen Tammsaare, 1878-1940)

One of the best-known Estonian novelists, author of the 5-volume masterpiece, Tõde ja Õigus (Truth and Justice, 1926-1933) chronicling the change from life on the land to life in town in 20th-C Estonia. His portrait is on the 25-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Clearly, there’s never much money in it for writers... but then again, embryologists get even less. Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) – first to establish that mammals develop from eggs – is only worth a 2-krooni banknote, but he was one of Darwin’s major critics. Bastard.