Jaan Unt (November 7, 1947 – January 12, 2012) was an Estonian classical philologist, translator, and literary scholar.

From 1955 to 1966, he studied Estonian philology at Tartu Secondary School No.

From 1971 to 1976, he studied classical philology at Leningrad State University.

[1][2][3] After his military service, Unt taught Estonian at Mustla High School [et].

From 1976 to 1980, he was a senior technical assistant in the History Institute's Feudal History Department at the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, and from 1980 to 1985 he worked as a freelancer in Tartu.