Mu Guoguang (1931 - 2012) was a Chinese opticist and educator. He graduated from Department of Physics of Nankai University in 1952, and from then became a faculty member of the same university. From 1985 to 1995 he served as the president of Nankai University. In 1991 he was elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focused on white-light optical processing, optical pattern recognition, color film archive storage, false color coding and optical neural networks.