List of Moscow State University people

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.

Notable awards recipients

Nobel laureates

 Alexey Abrikosov, MS 1948 - Soviet-Russian-American physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
 Ilya Frank - professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 
 Vitaly Ginzburg, MS 1938, PhD 1942 - physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
 Mikhail Gorbachev, MA 1955 - Head of State of the Soviet Union; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
 Pyotr Kapitsa - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978
 Lev Landau - professor of physics; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
 Boris Pasternak, MA 1913  - writer,  Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958
 Alexander Prokhorov - Australian-Soviet-Russian professor of physics; Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964
 Andrei Sakharov, MS 1942 - nuclear physicist; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
 Nikolay Semyonov - professor of chemistry; Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
 Igor Tamm, MS 1918  - physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958

Fields Medal laureates

 Vladimir Drinfeld (attended 1969–1974) - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1990; Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago
 Maxim Kontsevich (attended 1980–1985) - Russian-French mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
 Grigory Margulis, PhD 1970 - Russian-American mathematician; Erastus L. De Forest Professor of Mathematics at Yale University; winner of the Fields Medal in 1978
 Sergei Novikov, BA 1960  - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
 Andrei Okounkov, PhD 1995 - mathematician; winner of the Fields Meda] in 2006; Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
 Vladimir Voevodsky (attended 1982) - Russian-American mathematician

Turing Award laureates
 C. A. R. Hoare (attended as graduate student) - British computer scientist; winner of Turing Award in 1980

Literature, journalism and philosophy

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
 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
 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

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
 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

Law

 Daphna Hacker - professor at the Tel Aviv University law faculty
 Tatiana Vladislavovna Petrova - Environmental law lecturer
 Anatoly Shesteryuk - Environmental and land law professor

Linguistics and philology
 Victor Bayda - linguist
 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

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

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 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
 Dmitry Zubarev - theoretical physicist

Psychology
 Georgy Shchedrovitsky
 Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - psychologist

Sociology
 Georgi Derluguian - sociologist
 Yuri Levada - sociologist

Other

Business and finance
 Pyotr Aven
 Oleg Deripaska
 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Russian-born French billionaire, chairman of Louis Dreyfus
 Elena Kotova
 Alexander Mamut - Russian-Israeli lawyer, banker and investor
 Irina Nevzlin  Israeli entrepreneur and author
 Oleg Vyugin, former head of Russian financial markets regulator

Musicians and actors

 Nipun Akter - actress
 Sergei Bodrov, Jr. - actor
 Nashenas - Afghan musician
 Natalia O'Shea - singer-songwriter
 Alla Yoshpe - singer
 Elena Zoubareva - opera singer
 Elena Katina - singer

Politics

 Leonid Gozman - politician and president of the Union of Right Forces
 Marina Solodkin - Israeli politician
 Vladislav Stashinsky, deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation, first Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania in 1918 and director of the Bank of Lithuania.

Religion 

 ʻAlí-Akbar Furútan, Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith

Sports

 Semyon Belits-Geiman - swimmer, world record holder and two-time Olympic medalist
 Marina Granovskaia - director at Chelsea F.C.
Nikita Mazepin - former Formula 1 driver of Team Haas F1
Nikolai Melnikov - Olympic champion water polo player
Mikhail Romm - football player and author

Visual arts
 Anna Alchuk - poet and visual artist
 Wassily Kandinsky - painter, printmaker and art theorist
 Vsevolod Meyerhold - theatre director and producer
 Ernst Neizvestny - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher
 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko - theatre director, writer
 Leonid Pasternak - post-impressionist painter
 Vsevolod Pudovkin - film director
 Yuli Raizman -- film director and screenwriter
 Yulia Spiridonova - photographer

Video games
 Vadim Gerasimov -  co-developer of Tetris

See also
 :Category:Moscow State University alumni
 List of Russian scientists

References

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