| Visitor | Dates | Reason for visit |
| Estelle Asseo, CPT | 5 Jan - 1 Feb | IAU 160 
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| Matthew Baring, NASA-GSFC | 8 - 21 Jan | |
| Omer Blaes, UCSB | 3 - 31 Jul | IVP (U. Melbourne)* |
| Peter Brand, U. Edinburgh | 1 Jan - 21 May | IVP (UNSW)* |
| John Brown, U. Glasgow | 9 - 21 Dec | Beam plasma interactions in solar flares |
| Sandip Chakrabarti, TIFR | 7 - 8 Jul | Accretion onto black holes |
| Neil Cornish, U. Melbourne | 1 - 2 Aug | Chaos, fractals and general relativity |
| David Crawford, IC | 20 - 23 Jul | Public lecture |
| Attilio Ferrari, U. Torino | 30 Apr - 30 May | IVP (SRCfTA)* |
| John Greenhill, U. Tasmania | 25 Sep | X-ray binaries |
| Yashwant Gupta, TIFR | 7 - 20 Jan | IAU 160
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| Garik Israelian, IAC | 14 Aug - 26 Oct | Luminous blue variables |
| Vera Izvekova, Lebvedev Institute | 7 - 21 Jan | IAU 160
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| Nick Kaiser, CITA/AAO | 1 Jan - 12 Apr | 2Df Red Shift Survey |
| Guido Kanschat, U. Heidelberg | 8 - 10 Aug | 3D radiative transfer |
| Nobuyuki Kawai, RIKEN | 7 -15 Jan | IAU 160
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| Jan Kuijpers, U. Utrecht | 11 - 29 Nov | Magnetic pumping |
| Zdenka Kuncic, U. Cambridge/ANUATC | 16 - 18 Jan 17 - 19 Aug | Central continuum forming regions in AGN |
| Arkady Kuzmin, Lebvedev Institute | 7 - 21 Jan | IAU 160
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| Doug Lin, LO | 5 - 23 Jul | IVP (Monash U.)* |
| Qinghuan Luo, INPE/U. Adelaide | 7 - 26 Jan | IAU 160
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| George Machabeli, AbAO | 7 - 19 Jan | IAU 160
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| Valerij Malofeev, Lebvedev Institute | 7 - 21 Jan | IAU 160
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| Leon Mestel, U. Sussex | 7 - 19 Jan | IVP (SRCfTA)* |
| Shi-ya Nitta, U. Nagoya | 21 - 23 Jul | Cylindrical polar jets |
| Colin Norman, JHU/STScI | 31 Dec - 26 Jan 9 Dec - 13 Dec | SRCfTA Visiting Professor |
| Ed Salpeter, Cornell U. | 29 Oct | X-ray binaries |
| Dimitar Sasselov, CfA | Jan 97 | IVP (Astron.)* |
| Sudip Sen, IPR | 3 - 4 Aug | Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities |
| Shinpei Shibata, U. Yamagata | 2 Jan - 4 Feb | IVP (SRCfTA)*, IAU 160
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| Yuri Shitov, Lebvedev Institute | 7 - 21 Jan | IAU 160
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| Prabhjot Singh, Bangalore U. | 8 Jan - 31 Dec | Radiative transfer |
| Andrej Sobolev, Ural State U. | 1 Oct - 5 Dec | IVP (Monash U.)* |
| Dan Stinebring, Oberlin College | 3 Aug - 31 Dec | Pulsars |
| Allyn Tennant, NASA-GSFC | 1 - 30 Sep | IVP (SRCfTA)* |
| Yutaka Uchida, SUT | 3 Dec - 9 Jan | Solar flares |
| Vladimir Usov, WI | 6 - 23 Jan | IAU 160
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| Frank Verbunt, U. Utrecht | 2 Aug | Radio pulsars |
| Norbert Wex, MPIG | 5 Jan - 9 Aug | Neutron star binaries |
| Shuang Non Zhang, NASA-MSFC | 20 - 24 Jul | Black hole transients |
IVP denotes the International Visitor Program, and the primary host institution appears in brackets.
IAU 160 denotes stayed on after the IAU 160 Colloquium.