Pihlak is an

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(more common form is ''Pihlakas''). People bearing the surname Pihlak include: *

Arnold Pihlak Arnold Pihlak (17 July 1902 – 1 November 1985) was an Estonian footballer. Career Pihlak earned 44 caps for the Estonian national team between 1920 and 1931, scoring 17 goals. He also participated at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Pihlak spent t ...

(1902–1982), football player * (1888–1944), physician and military commander *

Helle Meri Helle Meri (born 14 March 1949), widow of Lennart Meri, is an Estonian actress who also served as the First Lady of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Helle Meri (née Pihlak) was born in the small town of Rapla where she also went to school. In her s ...

(née Pihlak; born 1949), actress and the First Lady *Oskar Pihlak (1901–1968), physician ( :et) *

Viktor Pihlak Viktor Pihlak (15 December 1886 – 10 July 1967 Tallinn) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finlan ...

(1886–1942), architect and industrialist

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{{Surname, Pihlak Estonian-language surnames