Kaarel Tarand (born 20 September 1966) is an Estonian journalist and editor.
[1] He was born in Tallinn to geographer, climatologist and politician Andres Tarand and radio journalist Mari Tarand.
His older brother is politician Indrek Tarand.
[2] During 1987–1996 he studied philology and social sciences at the University of Tartu.
Since 2002, he has worked as a columnist at newspaper Eesti Päevaleht.