Artur Amon

Artur "Ats" Amon (17 February 1916 – 3 September 1944) was an Estonian basketball player. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Amon was born in Tartu, where he attended secondary school at Tartu Boys' Gymnasium before enrolling at the University of Tartu, majoring in chemistry. While at the University of Tartu, he belonged to the Student Society Liivika.

Following the outbreak of World War II and the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Amon joined the Finnish backed Haukka-Tümmler intelligence group of the Estonian Forest Brothers partisans as a wireless radio operator. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets during the Tartu offensive while on a mission to observe troop movements prior to the Red Army's main offensive on the Väike Emajõgi river. He was killed by gunshot by Soviet soldiers during an escape attempt in Õru Parish, aged 28.