This paper presents the theoretical results about global Mittag–Leffler stabilization for a class of fractional-order complex-valued memristive neural networks with the designed two types of control rules. As the extension of fractional-order real-valued memristive neural networks, fractional-order complex-valued memristive neural networks have complex-valued states, synaptic weights, and the activation functions. By utilizing the set-valued maps, a generalized fractional derivative inequality as well as fractional-order differential inclusions, several stabilization criteria for global Mittag–Leffler stabilization of fractional-order complex-valued memristive neural networks are established. A numerical example is provided here to illustrate our theoretical results.