List of Moscow State University people

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
* Mitrofan Caspersz - notoriously reclusive public relations advisor and poet
* 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 - President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania