List of honorary professors of Moscow State University

This is the list of Honorary Professors of Moscow State University.


 * Chinghiz Aitmatov, Russian/Kyrgyz novelist (2004)
 * Askar Akayev, physicist, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan (1996)
 * Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1993)
 * Zhores Alferov, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (2001)
 * Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (2008)
 * Ilham Aliyev, 4th President of Azerbaijan (2008)
 * Tatiana Anodina, aviation engineer, the chairperson of the Interstate Aviation Committee (2015)
 * Dario Antiseri, Italian philosopher (2002)
 * Irina Arkhipova, opera singer (2001)
 * Mykola Azarov, geologist, 14th Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014)
 * Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2008)
 * Craig Barrett, American business executive, the CEO of Intel (2000)
 * Leonid Berlyand, American mathematician (2017)
 * John Bernal, British biophysicist and historian of science (1956)
 * Klaus von Beyme, German political scientist (2010)
 * Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, Italian astrophysicist (2013)
 * Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1961)
 * Irina Bokova, Bulgarian politician, former Director-General of UNESCO (2011)
 * Massimo Capaccioli, Italian astrophysicist (2010)
 * Yevgeniy Chazov, physician and healthcare executive (2002)
 * Viktor Chernomyrdin, industrialist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Russia (1997)
 * James Franklin Collins, American diplomat, a former United States Ambassador to Russia (2001)
 * Arnaud Denjoy, French mathematician (1956)
 * Fidel Felix Castro Diaz-Balart, Cuban politician, son of Fidel Castro, graduate of the Moscow State University (2013)
 * Nikolai Dobronravov, poet (2015)
 * Werner Ebeling (physicist), German physicist (2006)
 * Terence Emmons, American historian, specialist in Russian history (2005)
 * Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut, first Esperantist in space (2015)
 * Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (2006)
 * Gérard Férey, French chemist (2014)
 * William Z. Foster, American communist, a chairman of the American Communist Party (1961)
 * Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexican psychiatrist, healthcare and academic administrator (2006)
 * Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (2000)
 * Indira Gandhi, 3rd Prime Minister of India (1971)
 * Valery Gergiev, conductor and opera company director (2001)
 * Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of France (2015)
 * Rolf Gleiter, German chemist (2003)
 * Thomas Gries, Director of the RWTH Aachen Institute of Textile Technology (ITA) (2013)
 * Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist (2007)
 * Marek Halter, French writer and journalist (1998)
 * Dmitri Hvorostovsky, opera singer, People's Artist of Russia (2006)
 * Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Buddhist philosopher (2002)
 * Paul Irwin, American Methodist minister and animal protection activist (2002)
 * Gjorge Ivanov, 4th President of Macedonia (2014)
 * Vladimir Jurowski, conductor (2016)
 * Sergey Kapitsa, physicist and a host of a popular scientific TV show (2010)
 * Islam Karimov, 1st President of Uzbekistan (2001)
 * Anatoly Karpov, chess grandmaster and former World Champion (2001)
 * Alyaksandr Kazulin, Belarusian mathematician, statesman and politician (2001)
 * Mohammad Khatami, Iranian statesman, 5th President of Iran (2001)
 * Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (2011)
 * Aleksander Kwaśniewski, 3rd President of Poland (2004)
 * Václav Klaus, 2nd President of the Czech Republic (2007)
 * Rolf-Dieter Kluge, German Slavist (1995)
 * Joseph Kobzon, singer, People's Artist of the USSR (2008)
 * Andrei Konchalovsky, film director and screenwriter (2017)
 * Mikhail Kovalchuk, physicist, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
 * Salomon Kroonenberg, Dutch geologist (2008)
 * Leonid Kuchma, 2nd President of Ukraine (1998)
 * Li Lanqing, Chinese politician (2000)
 * Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus (1996)
 * Yury Luzhkov, 2nd Mayor of Moscow (1996)
 * Carlos Alfredo Magariños, Argentine politician and UN official (1999)
 * Vladislav Malkevich, economist and business executive, donated his art collection to the University (2016)
 * Mirjana Marković, Yugoslav politician, widow of Slobodan Milošević (1996)
 * Denis Matsuev, classical pianist (2011)
 * Gérard Maugin, French engineering scientist (2001)
 * Ekaterina Maximova, ballerina (1995)
 * Dennis Meadows, American scientist and writer (2004)
 * Ruslan Medzhitov, American immunologist (2012)
 * Bernd Meyer, German fuel technologist (2015)
 * Rustam Minnikhanov, 2nd President of Tatarstan (2016)
 * Craig Mundie, American computer scientist, Microsoft executive (2006)
 * Arto Mustajoki, Finnish Slavist (1999)
 * Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (1993)
 * Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan (1996)
 * Zdeněk Nejedlý, Czech writer, national thinker and statesman (1953)
 * Claudio Nicolini, Italian biophysicist (2010)
 * Mikhail Nikolayev, 1st President of the Sakha republic in Russia (1996)
 * Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (1998)
 * Yury Osipov, mathematician and statesman, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1996)
 * Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer, People's Artist of the USSR (2015)
 * Maya Plisetskaya, ballerina and choreographer (1993)
 * Martyn Poliakoff, British chemist (1999)
 * Yevgeny Primakov, arabist, foreign intelligence officer, politician (1998)
 * Ernö Pungor, Hungarian chemist (1999)
 * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and statesman, 2nd President of India (1956)
 * Emomali Rahmon, 3rd President of Tajikistan (2009)
 * Giovanni Reale, Italian historian of philosophy (2002)
 * Maria José Ritta, First Lady of Portugal (2001)
 * Vladimir Resin, politician, Mayor of Moscow (2002)
 * Primo Rovis, Italian businessman, owner of a large collection of minerals; donated part of it to the University of Moscow (2005)
 * John William Ryan, American academic administrator (1999)
 * Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia (2011)
 * Rodion Shchedrin, composer (2007)
 * Alexander Shokhin, politician (2007)
 * Manmohan Singh, 13th Prime Minister of India (2005)
 * Yury Solomin, actor and culture administrator (2013)
 * Sen Sōshitsu XV, Japanese master of tea ceremony (1990)
 * Valery Soyfer, Russian-American biophysicist and human rights advocate (2003)
 * Vladimir Spivakov, conductor and violinist (2002)
 * Klaus Steilmann, German industrialist and writer (2000)
 * Sukarno 1st President of Indonesia (1956)
 * Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor, composer, and pianist (1995)
 * Oleg Tabakov, actor and theater administrator (2004)
 * Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut, first woman to fly in space(2013)
 * Zurab Tsereteli, sculptor and architect, President of the Russian Academy of Arts (2004)
 * Seiji Tsutsumi, Japanese business executive, politician and poet (honorary visiting professor, 1982)
 * Slobodan Unković, Serbian economist and academic administrator (1990)
 * Vladimir Vasiliev, ballet dancer and choreographer (1995)
 * Galina Vishnevskaya, opera singer (2007)
 * James Watson, biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
 * Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian politician, 4th President of Ukraine (2010)
 * Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spanish scientist, diplomat and poet (1998)
 * Xi-Cheng Zhang, Chinese-born American physicist and scientific executive (2012)
 * Yuri Zhdanov, chemist, son of Andrei Zhdanov (2003)
 * Peter Ziegler, Swiss geologist (1998)
 * Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (1997)
 * Lyudmila Zykina, folk singer (2002)