Heino Liiv (September 7, 1930 – March 23, 2021) was an Estonian linguist and philologist specializing in English.
In exile, he received his higher education at Irkutsk State Linguistic University.
In 1961, Kallista Kann invited him to the University of Tartu, where he started working as an instructor in the Department of English Philology and later continued as a senior lecturer.
In 1975, he received a doctoral degree in pedagogy at A. I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University with the dissertation Усвоение видо-временных форм английского глагола студентами-эстонцами на 1 курсе языкового вуза (Mastering Aspectual and Tense Forms of English Verbs by Estonian Students in the First Year of a University Language Program).
Notably, Liiv managed to serve in these various leadership positions without being a member of the Communist Party.