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