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 .
Anton Chekhov , writer
Anna Narinskaya
Alexander Boot – lecturer on English literature who became a journalist and author in London
Sergei Bulgakov - Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist
Pyotr Chaadaev - philosopher
Boris Chicherin - jurist and political philosopher
Anton Chekhov - short story writer and playwright
Ekaterina Dashkova - major figure of the Russian Enlightenment
Semyon Desnitsky - lawyer; introduced the ideas of Adam Smith to the Russian public
Pavel Florensky - philosopher, Russian Orthodox theologian, historian
Alexander Griboedov - writer, diplomat
Yelena Khanga - journalist, writer, talk show host
Edward Kuznetsov - Soviet-Israeli dissident, refusenik , journalist, and writer
Sofokli Lazri - Albanian journalist and diplomat
Mikhail Lermontov - poet, writer
Merab Mamardashvili - philosopher
Musa Muradov - journalist
Alpesh Patel - philosopher
Anna Narinskaya - journalist, literary critic, and exhibition curator
Nitipoom Navaratna - columnist
Aleksey Pisemsky - novelist and dramatist
Anna Politkovskaya - journalist, human rights activist
Vasily Rozanov - writer and philosopher
Elena Rzhevskaya - writer and war interpreter
Varlam Shalamov - writer, author of books on Soviet labor camps
Dmitry Strelnikoff - poet, essayist, novelist
Mikhail Svetlov - poet
Vladimir Toporov - philologist
Nikolai Trubetzkoy - linguist and historian
Ivan Turgenev - writer
Lyudmila Ulitskaya - novelist and short-story writer, Austrian State Prize for European Literature
Maximilian Voloshin - poet
Pyotr Kapitsa , physicist and engineer
Linguistics and philology
Mathematics
Pavel Alexandrov - mathematician
Vladimir Arnold - mathematician, Shaw Prize (2008), State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007), Wolf Prize (2001), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics , Harvey Prize (1994), RAS Lobachevsky Prize (1992), Crafoord Prize (1982), Lenin Prize (1965)
Grigory Barenblatt - mathematician, Timoshenko Medal (2005)
Felix Berezin - mathematician and physicist
Joseph Bernstein - Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize (2004)
Vladimir Boltyansky - mathematician, educator, and author
Pafnuty Chebyshev - mathematician
Boris Demidovich - mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld - Soviet-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1990
Eugene Dynkin - mathematician, Leroy P. Steele Prize (1993)
Messoud Efendiev - mathematician
Gregory Eskin - Russian-Israeli-American mathematician
Dmitry Fuchs - Russian-American mathematician
Israel Gelfand - Soviet-American mathematician
Victor Ginzburg - Russian American mathematician
Gu Chaohao - Chinese mathematician
Anatole Katok - American mathematician
Mstislav Keldysh - mathematician; President of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1961–1975
Tanya Khovanova - Soviet-American mathematician
Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist
Andrey Kolmogorov - mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1998
Boris Korenblum - Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician
Grigory Landsberg - physicist, Order of Lenin
Leonid Levin - Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist
Vladimir Levenshtein - mathematician
Boris Levit - mathematician
Nikolai Luzin - mathematician
Grigory Margulis - Russian-American mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal 1978
Sergei Novikov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
Andrei Okounkov - mathematician; winner of the Fields Medal in 2006
Alexander Moiseevich Olevskii - Russian-Israeli mathematician
Olga Oleinik - mathematician
Ivan Petrovsky - mathematician
Abraham Plessner - mathematician
Leonid Polterovich - Russian-Israeli mathematician, 1998 Erdős Prize , 1996 EMS Prize
Vladimir Rokhlin - mathematician
Yakov Sinai - Russian-American mathematician
Ilya M. Sobol - mathematician
Bella Subbotovskaya - mathematician
Hoang Tuy - Vietnamese mathematician
Ernest Vinberg - mathematician, Humboldt Prize
Wassily Kandinsky , painter and art theorist
Automobiles
Misha Charoudin - test driver, automotive influencer, social media personality