List of Moscow State University people
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The following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Moscow State University.
- Alexey Abrikosov - Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
- Askar Akayev - Mathematics professor, former president of Kyrgyzstan
- Pavel Alexandrov - Mathematician
- Vladimir Arnold - Mathematician
- Zalpa Bersanova - Chechen ethnographer and author
- Sergei Bulgakov - graduated, later expelled from the country
- Pafnuty Chebyshev - Mathematician
- Anton Chekhov - Short story writer and playwright.
- Boris Chicherin - Jurist and political philosopher
- Ekaterina Dashkova - A major figure of the Russian Enlightenment.
- Semyon Desnitsky - Lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public.
- Vladimir Drinfel'd - Mathematician
- Elena Katina - Member of the Russian band t.A.T.u.
- Grigori Gamburtsev - Soviet seismologist
- Israel Gelfand - Mathematician
- Vitaly Ginzburg - Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 2003
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Head of State of the USSR; winner of Nobel Peace Prize in 1990
- Alexander Herzen - Philosopher; widely known as the "father of Russian socialism"
- C. A. R. Hoare - Computer scientist; winner of ACM Turing Award in 1980
- Ion Iliescu - President of Romania
- Vyacheslav Ivanov - Philologist
- Wassily Kandinsky - Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist
- Pyotr Kapitsa - Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1978
- Yuri Knorozov - Russian linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer
- Andrey Kolmogorov - Mathematician
- Maxim Kontsevich - Mathematician; winner of Fields Medal in 1998
- Igor Kurchatov - Physicist
- Lev Landau - Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
- Grigory Landsberg - Physicist
- Yuri Levada - Sociologist
- Nikolai Luzin - Mathematician
- Grigory Margulis - Mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1978
- Nitiphoom Naowarat - Columnist
- Sergei Novikov - Mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
- Andrei Okounkov - Mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
- Olga Oleinik - Mathematician
- Aleksandr Oparin - Biochemist
- Ivan Petrovsky - Mathematician
- Abraham Plessner - Mathematician
- Andrei Sakharov - Nuclear physicist; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975
- Yakov Sinai - Mathematician
- Varlam Shalamov - Writer, arrested in 1929
- Sergey Stanishev - Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
- Mikhail Suslov - Soviet statesman
- Igor Tamm - Physicist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958
- Vladimir Toporov - Philologist
- Nikolai Trubetzkoy - Linguist and historian
- Maximilian Voloshin - Poet
- Lev Semenovich Vygotsky - Psychologist
- Anatoly Vlasov - Physicist
- Kęstutis Lapinskas - Lithuanian President of Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania
