List of honorary professors of Moscow State University information

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 [it], 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 [de], German physicist (2006)
• Terence Emmons [ru], 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 [de], 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 [nl], 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 [de], German fuel technologist (2015)
• Rustam Minnikhanov, 2nd President of Tatarstan (2016)
• Craig Mundie, American computer scientist, Microsoft executive (2006)
• Arto Mustajoki [fi], 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 [it], 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 [pt], 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 [de], 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)