36 Notable alumni of National University of Uzbekistan
Updated: June 10, 2026 EliteDegrees
National University of Uzbekistan is ranked #4,031 in the world and #1 in Uzbekistan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 36 notable alumni from National University of Uzbekistan sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with National University of Uzbekistan won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Piotr Opaliński
1958-. (aged 68)
diplomat
orientalist
Piotr Andrzej Opaliński is a Polish diplomat, serving as an ambassador to Pakistan (2015–2021).
2. Tashmukhamed Alievich Sarymsakov
1915-1995 (aged 80)
physicist
mathematician
Toshmuhammad Sarimsoqov was an Uzbek mathematician who served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1947 to 1952.
3. Svetlana Gerasimova
1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimova is the Director of Secondary School No. 50 in Tashkent. She is an Honored Educator of the Republic of Uzbekistan, a People's Teacher of Uzbekistan (2000), and the former chairperson of the Russian Cultural Center of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2003–2009). She also served as a senator from 2005 to 2010.
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4. Maimul Ahsan Khan
1954-. (aged 72)
university teacher
legal scholar
writer
Maimul Ahsan Khan is a Bangladeshi scholar of jurisprudence and comparative law and a former professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka. His work focuses on jurisprudence, Islamic law, Islam and Muslim culture, political science, human rights, Middle Eastern, South Asian and Oriental studies. In 2012, the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund featured him as one of...
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5. Zinaida Botschantzeva
1907-1973 (aged 66)
botanist
botanical collector
scientific collector
Zinaida Petrovna Botschantzeva was a Soviet and Russian botanist, cytologist, embryologist, and professor of the Tashkent university.
6. Ksenia Kepping
1937-2002 (aged 65)
linguist
Ksenia Borisovna Kepping was a Russian Tangutologist, known principally for her study of Tangut (or Mi-nia) grammar. She is also known for her theories on the tantric nature of the Tangut state, and for her proposition of the existence of two contrasting forms of Tangut language, the common language used in most surviving Tangut texts, and a ritual language preserved...
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7. Musa Adyshev
1915-1979 (aged 64)
geologist
Musa Mirzapayazovich Adyshev was a Soviet and Kyrgyz geologist who lived and worked in Kyrgyzstan. He is best known for identification of Tien Shan black-shale province and substantiation of its stratigraphic location.
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8. Margarita Ivanovna Filanovich
1937-. (aged 89)
archaeologist
historian
Margarita Ivanovna Filanovich is a Soviet (later Uzbek) historian, archaeologist, and leader of a Tashkent archaeological expedition (formerly the Tashkent archaeological detachment).
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9. Sanjar Fayziev
1994-. (aged 32)
tennis player
Sanjar Fayziev is an Uzbekistani tennis player.
10. Tursunoy Jabborova
2002-. (aged 24)
weightlifter
Tursunoy Jabborova is an Uzbekistani weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 87 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and the bronze medal at the 2022 edition held in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also a three-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships. Jabborova represented Uzbekistan at the...
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11. Oleg Krasilnikov
1950-2011 (aged 61)
biophysicist
Oleg Vladimirovich Krasilnikov was a Soviet-born biophysicist who lived and worked in Uzbekistan and Brazil. His father, Vladimir Sergeyevich Krasilnikov, was a mining engineer who worked in the coal mines of Kyrgyzstan (Sulukta and Tash Kumyr). His mother, Ekatherine Yakovlevna Krasilnikova, was an economist.
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12. Svetlana Artykova
1962-. (aged 64)
jurist
Svetlana Baymirzaevna Artikova is a lawyer, public and political figure, senator (2010, 2015), and Deputy Chairman of the Senate. Since November 7, 2019, she has been appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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13. Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy
1897-1970 (aged 73)
mathematician
politician
Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy was an Uzbek mathematician and historian who served as the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.
14. Jahangir Mamatov
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
writer
journalist
Jahangir Mamatov is a PhD, linguist, lexicographer, author, journalist, and a political analyst of Central Asian issues. He is a former member of the Uzbek Parliament and a co-author of Uzbekistan's Declaration of Independence. His writings, tenure in parliament, and other political activities were often greatly at odds with the Uzbek government. He was arrested but escaped into exile for...
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15. Edvard Rtveladze
1942-2022 (aged 80)
historian
numismatist
archaeologist
politician
Edvard Vasilevich Rtveladze was a Soviet, Georgian, and Uzbek scientist. He was a member of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, Doctor of Historical Sciences, academician from the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and a tenured professor.
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16. Kadyr Gulamov
1945-. (aged 81)
military personnel
Kadyr Gafurovich Gulamov is an Uzbek politician who has served as Minister of Defence of Uzbekistan. To date, he was the first and only civilian leader of an Uzbek military department.
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17. Kateryna Yushchenko
1919-2001 (aged 82)
computer scientist
scientist
programmer
Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science. She developed one of the world's first high-level languages with indirect address in programming (Pointers are analogous to this addressing), called the Address programming language. Over the period of her academic career,...
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18. Sodiq Safoyev
1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat
sports executive
politician
Sodiq Solihovich Safoyev, also known as Sodyq Safayev (born 3 February 1954), is an Uzbek politician, who served as First Deputy Chair of the Senate of Uzbekistan, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan from 14 March 2003 to 4 February 2005.
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19. Akgul Amanmuradova
1984-. (aged 42)
tennis player
Akgul Charievna Amanmuradova is an Uzbek former professional tennis player. At 1.90 metres in height, she is one of the tallest female tennis players in history.
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20. Yuri Izrael
1930-2014 (aged 84)
politician
geophysicist
Yuri Antonievich Izrael was a Soviet and Russian meteorologist. He served as the vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) until September 2008, when the new bureau was elected. He was the "most influential scientific adviser" for Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, according to CNN.
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21. Khurshid Davron
1952-. (aged 74)
translator
prose writer
poet
playwright
Khurshid Davron is an Uzbek poet, historical fiction writer, and literary translator. His work often presents Uzbekistan and nearby Central Asia historical and cultural perspectives. and Central Asia in the whole.
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22. Allahshukur Pashazadeh
1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher
Sheikh-ul-Islam
mufti
Allahshukur Hummat Pashazade is the Shaykh al-Islam of the Caucasus which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Georgia, and Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Karachay–Cherkessia, and Adygea in the Russian Federation. He is also the chairman of the Religious Council of the Caucasus.
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23. Tanzila Narbaeva
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Tanzila Kamalovna Norbaeva is an Uzbek politician. She is the Chairperson of the Senate of Uzbekistan since 2019. She previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019, and was the Chairperson of the Women's Committee from 2016 to 2019.
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24. Muhammad Salih
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
dissident
linguist
translator
poet
Muhammad Salih is an Uzbek political opposition leader and writer. He was the opposition candidate in the 1991 Uzbek presidential election, the first and only time an Uzbek president has faced a serious challenger in an election.
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25. Ulugbek Rashitov
2002-. (aged 24)
taekwondo athlete
Ulugbek Rashitov is an Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the Men's 68 kg event at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 58 kg event at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China.
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26. Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva
1978-. (aged 48)
diplomat
Lola Islamovna Karimova-Tillyaeva is an Uzbek diplomat and the daughter of Islam Karimov the former President of Uzbekistan and his wife, Tatyana Akbarovna Karimova. In 2012 she and her ex-husband, Timur Tillyaev, made it into Bilan magazine's list of Switzerland's 300 richest residents. Her older sister is business mogul Gulnara Karimova.
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27. Nigmatilla Yuldashev
1962-. (aged 64)
lawyer
politician
magistrate
Nigmatilla Tulkinovich Yuldashev is an Uzbek lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Senate of Uzbekistan from 2015 until 2019. Previously, he was Minister of Justice from 2011 to 2015.
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28. Erkin Vohidov
1936-2016 (aged 80)
translator
playwright
poet
politician
Erkin Vohidov was an Uzbek poet, playwright, literary translator, and statesman. In addition to writing his own poetry, Vohidov translated the works of many famous foreign poets, such as Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Muhammad Iqbal, Rasul Gamzatov, and Sergey Yesenin into the Uzbek language. Particularly noteworthy are his translations of Yesenin's works and Goethe's Faust.
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29. Abdulla Qahhor
1907-1968 (aged 61)
playwright
writer
translator
prose writer
novelist
Abdulla Qahhor was a Soviet and Uzbek novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, and literary translator. He is best remembered as the author of the 1951 novel Qoʻshchinor chiroqlari (The Lights of Kushchinar) and the 1958 novella Sinchalak.
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30. Oybek
1905-1968 (aged 63)
novelist
literary critic
poet
politician
translator
Muso Toshmuhammad oʻgʻli, known by the pen name Oybek, was an Uzbek, Soviet writer, poet and translator. He was a People's Writer of the Uzbek SSR (1965), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1943), recipient of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1946), member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (since 1948). He was...
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31. Roksana Babajan
1946-. (aged 80)
singer
actor
engineer
Roksana Rubenovna Babajan is a Soviet and Russian pop singer and actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999). Active participant in the protection of homeless animals, President of the Russian League for the Protection of Animals.
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32. Margarita Terekhova
1942-. (aged 84)
theatrical director
film actor
stage actor
film director
actor
Margarita Borisovna Terekhova is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia in 1996.
33. Gulnara Karimova
1972-. (aged 54)
entrepreneur
diplomat
singer
politician
Gulnara Islamovna Karimova is a former Uzbek businesswoman and the elder daughter of Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan from 1991 to his death in 2016. She wielded considerable influence in Uzbekistan owing to her business dealings and family connections. From 2013, due to a conflict with her father, she rapidly began to lose influence.
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34. Iskander Makhmudov
1963-. (aged 63)
entrepreneur
Russian oligarch
Iskander Kakhramonovich Makhmudov is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman.
35. Rustam Atsimov
1958-. (aged 68)
politician
Rustam Sadykovich Asimov is an Uzbek politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2005 to 2017. He served as Minister of Finance from 1998 to 2000 and from 2005 to 2016.
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36. Mikhail Lyubich
1959-. (aged 67)
mathematician
university teacher
Mikhail Lyubich (born 25 February 1959 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a mathematician who has made important contributions to the fields of holomorphic dynamics and chaos theory.
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