# 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 [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 Communist Party in the United States (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)