Anatoly Vishnevsky (1 April 1935 – 15 January 2021) was a Russian demographer and economist.

Vishnevsky earned a doctorate in economics in 1983, which would later effectively make him a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

[1] Vishnevsky was editor-in-chief of the information bulletin "Population and Society" and of the online journal "Demoscope Weekly".

In 1971, he moved to Moscow and began working at the USSR Demographic Research Institute.

He was an active member of several councils and committees, such as the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) program of UNESCO.