Konstantin Päts VR I/1 and III/1 (February 23 1874 - January 18 1956) was a politician and the first President of Estonia.

Päts means a loaf of bread in Estonian and so was called one of his ancestors, a miller by his profession. The religion of his forefathers was Lutheranism, as for most Estonians, but his father Jakob Päts, a housebuilder, converted to Orthodoxy and married a Russian, Olga Tumanova.