List of Moscow State University people
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The list of Moscow State University people includes notable alumni, non-graduates, and faculty affiliated with the Lomonosov Moscow State University (also known as "Moscow State University"). A fuller list is available as a category.
Nobel laureates
- Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948[1] – Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)
- Ilya Frank – professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
- Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938,[2] PhD 1942 – physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (2003)
- Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955[3] – Head of State of the Soviet Union; Nobel Peace Prize (1990)
- Pyotr Kapitsa – professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1978)
- Lev Landau – professor of physics;[4] Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)
- Boris Pasternak, MA 1913[5] – writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1958)
- Alexander Prokhorov – Australian-Soviet-Russian professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)
- Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 – nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize (1975)
- Nikolay Semyonov – professor of chemistry;[6] Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956)
- Igor Tamm, MS 1918[7] – physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics (1958)
Fields Medal laureates
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- Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969–1974) – Soviet-American mathematician; Fields Medal (1990); Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
- Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980–1985)[8] – Russian-French mathematician; Fields Medal (1998)
- Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 – Russian-American mathematician; Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University;[9] Fields Medal (1978)
- Sergei Novikov, BA 1960[10] – mathematician; Fields Medal (1970)
- Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 – mathematician; Fields Medal (2006); Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University[11]
- Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982) – Russian-American mathematician
Turing Award laureates
- C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) – British computer scientist; Turing Award (1980)
Literature, journalism and philosophy
- Alexander Boot – lecturer on English literature who became a journalist and author in London
- Sergei Bulgakov – Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
- Pyotr Chaadaev – philosopher
- Boris Chicherin – jurist and political philosopher
- Anton Chekhov – short story writer and playwright
- Ekaterina Dashkova – major figure of the Russian Enlightenment
- Semyon Desnitsky – lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public
- Pavel Florensky – philosopher, Russian Orthodox theologian, historian
- Alexander Griboedov – writer, diplomat
- Yelena Khanga – journalist, writer, talk show host
- Edward Kuznetsov – Soviet-Israeli dissident, refusenik, journalist, and writer
- Sofokli Lazri – Albanian journalist and diplomat
- Mikhail Lermontov – poet, writer
- Uliana Malashenko – journalist
- Merab Mamardashvili – philosopher
- Musa Muradov – journalist
- Alpesh Patel – philosopher
- Anna Narinskaya – journalist, literary critic, and exhibition curator
- Nitipoom Navaratna – columnist
- Aleksey Pisemsky – novelist and dramatist
- Anna Politkovskaya – journalist, human rights activist
- Vasily Rozanov – writer and philosopher
- Elena Rzhevskaya – writer and war interpreter
- Varlam Shalamov – writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
- Dmitry Strelnikoff – poet, essayist, novelist
- Mikhail Svetlov – poet
- Vladimir Toporov – philologist
- Nikolai Trubetzkoy – linguist and historian
- Ivan Turgenev – writer
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya – novelist and short-story writer, Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- Maximilian Voloshin – poet
Academics
Astronomy
- Alexander Salomonovich - radio astronomer
Chemistry
- Nikolay Emanuel - specialist in chemical kinetics and mechanics of chemical reactions
- Alexei Kharitonenkov - biochemist and medical researcher
- Aleksandr Oparin - biochemist
- Natalia Shustova - Professor of Chemistry
- Alexei Bogdanov - Chemist and molecular biologist
- Nguyen Dinh Duc - researcher of composite materials in Vietnam
- Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956
Computer science
- Georgy Adelson-Velsky - Soviet-Israeli inventor of AVL tree algorithm; developer of Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
- C. A. R. Hoare - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980
- Lam M. Nguyen - computer scientist and applied mathematician; Research Scientist at IBM Research
- Alexander Stepanov - Russian-American, known for C++ Standard Template Library
Economics
- Sergey Glazyev - economist, politician
- Avraham Katznelson - physician and Zionist political figure
- Yuri Maltsev - Austrian School economist
Engineering
- Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva (1917 - 1994), aviation engineer and H ero of Socialist Labor
- Victor Lyatkher (1933), renewable energy engineer
Geosciences
- Boris Fedtschenko - botanist
- Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan - Russian-Israeli botanist
- Alexander Goldfarb - Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author
- Boris Kozo-Polyansky - botanist and evolutionary biologist
- Grigori Gamburtsev - seismologist
- Grigorii Kozhevnikov - entomologist
- Irina Pavlovna Zarutskaya - geomorphologist, cartographer
History
- Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
- Anatoly Bokschanin - historian of Rome, professor
- Igor Golomstock - art historian
- Vladimir Guerrier - historian and founder of higher education for women in Russia
- Anatoly Khazanov- anthropologist and historian
- Vasily Klyuchevsky - historian
- Nikolay Kun - historian, writer and educator
- Nikolai Mashkin - historian of Rome, professor
- Suleyman Aliyarli - Azeri historian and Turkologist
- Sigurd Schmidt - historian, ethnographer
- Pavel Polian - geographer and historian
- Alec Rasizade - professor of history and political science, author of Rasizade's algorithm
- V. S. Lelchuk - historian
- Konstantin Zel'in - historian
Law
- Daphna Hacker - professor at the Tel Aviv University law faculty
- Tatiana Vladislavovna Petrova - Environmental law lecturer[12]
- Anatoly Shesteryuk - Environmental and land law professor
Linguistics and philology
- Victor Bayda – linguist
- Alexander Dolin – Japanologist, author, translator, academic[13]
- Ahmet Cevat Emre – Turkish linguist
- Elena Fedorova – philologist
- Margalit Finkelberg – Belarusian-Israeli historian and linguist
- Vyacheslav Ivanov – philologist
- Yuri Knorozov – Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
- Anatoly Moskvin – academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home
- Victor Raskin – distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University
Mathematics
- Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold - mathematician, Shaw Prize (2008), State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007), Wolf Prize (2001), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, Harvey Prize (1994), RAS Lobachevsky Prize (1992), Crafoord Prize (1982), Lenin Prize (1965)
- Hafez Bashar al-Assad (2023), son of Syrian authoritarian ruler Bashar al-Assad
- Grigory Barenblatt - mathematician, Timoshenko Medal (2005)
- Felix Berezin - mathematician and physicist
- Joseph Bernstein - Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize (2004)
- Vladimir Boltyansky - mathematician, educator, and author
- Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
- Boris Demidovich - mathematician
- Vladimir Drinfeld - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
- Eugene Dynkin - mathematician, Leroy P. Steele Prize (1993)
- Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
- Gregory Eskin - Russian-Israeli-American mathematician
- Dmitry Fuchs - Russian-American mathematician
- Israel Gelfand - Soviet-American mathematician
- Victor Ginzburg - Russian American mathematician
- Gu Chaohao - Chinese mathematician
- Anatole Katok - American mathematician
- Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
- Tanya Khovanova - Soviet-American mathematician
- Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist
- Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
- Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
- Boris Korenblum - Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician
- Grigory Landsberg - physicist, Order of Lenin
- Leonid Levin - Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist
- Vladimir Levenshtein - mathematician
- Boris Levit - mathematician
- Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
- Grigory Margulis - Russian-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
- Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
- Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii - Russian-Israeli mathematician
- Olga Oleinik - mathematician
- Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
- Abraham Plessner - mathematician
- Leonid Polterovich - Russian-Israeli mathematician, 1998 Erdős Prize, 1996 EMS Prize
- Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
- Yakov Sinai - Russian-American mathematician
- Ilya M. Sobol - mathematician
- Bella Subbotovskaya - mathematician
- Hoang Tuy - Vietnamese mathematician
- Ernest Vinberg - mathematician, Humboldt Prize
Paleontology
- Alexei Petrovich Pavlov - paleontologist and geologist
- Maria Vasillievna Pavlova - paleontologist
Pedagogy
- Victor Della-Vos
- Alexander Bogomolny, Israeli American mathematician; creator of the mathematical education website Cut-the-Knot
Physics
- Alexey Abrikosov - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
- Nikolay Bogolyubov - theoretical physicist and mathematician
- Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart - nuclear physicist
- Paul Epstein- Russian-American mathematical physicist
- Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
- Vitaly Ginzburg - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
- Sergey Gavrilets - mathematical biologist
- Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
- Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
- Eugene Levich - Russian-Israeli physicist
- Andrei Linde - Russian-American physicist
- Alexander Prokhorov - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
- Andrei Sakharov - nuclear physicist; Nobel Peace Prize 1975
- Dmitry Shirkov - theoretical physicist
- Arsenij Sokolov - theoretical physicist
- Igor Tamm - physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
- Igor Ternov - theoretical physicist
- Sergei Tyablikov - theoretical physicist
- Anatoly Vlasov - physicist
- Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom - physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist
- Michael Zhdanov - geophysicist
- Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist
Psychology
- Georgy Shchedrovitsky
- Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist
Sociology
- Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
- Yuri Levada - sociologist
