This is a list of people who have translated one or more works into English from another language. Entries are divided by broad chronological period, and within that by language of the original text. Translators may appear in multiple sections within the list.
Translators of ancient literature (Bronze Age–5th century CE) Translators of ancient Mesopotamian literature George Aaron Barton – Debate between sheep and grain, Barton Cylinder, Enlil and Ninlil, Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D), Old Babylonian oracle, Kesh temple hymn, Debate between Winter and Summer, Hymn to Enlil, Lament for Ur (all 1918) Robert D. Biggs – Kesh temple hymn (1974) Edward Chiera – Kesh temple hymn, Debate between sheep and grain (both 1924) Stephanie Dalley – Atra-Hasis, The Myth of Anzu, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld, Enūma Eliš, Erra and Ishum (all 1998) Claude Hermann Walter Johns – Code of Hammurabi (1903) Samuel Noah Kramer – Death of Gilgamesh (1944), Debate between Winter and Summer (1944), Gilgamesh and Aga (1949), Code of Ur-Nammu (1952), Debate between sheep and grain (1959) Wilfred G. Lambert – Atra-Hasis (1969, with Alan Millard), Enūma Eliš (2011) Stephen Herbert Langdon – Kesh temple hymn (1915) Alan Millard – Atra-Hasis (1969, with Wilfred G. Lambert)
Translators of the Epic of Gilgamesh Stephanie Dalley (1998) John Gardner (a.1982, with John Maier; published 1984) Andrew R. George (2000) Stephen Mitchell (2004) Nancy Sandars (1960)
Translators of ancient Egyptian literature James Peter Allen – Book of Nut (1988) Samuel Birch – Book of the Dead (1867) E. A. Wallis Budge – Book of the Dead (1895), Amduat (1905), Book of Gates (1905) Adriaan de Buck – Coffin Texts (1935–1961) Marshall Clagett – Coffin Texts (1989, selections), Pyramid Texts (1989, selections), Book of Nut (1995) Raymond O. Faulkner – Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys (1936), Pyramid Texts (1969), Book of the Dead (1972), Coffin Texts (1973–1978) Leonard H. Lesko – Coffin Texts (1972) Miriam Lichtheim – Coffin Texts (1973, selections), Pyramid Texts (1973, selections), Book of the Dead (1973, selections) John Albert Wilson – Coffin Texts (1955, selections), Pyramid Texts (1955, selections), Book of the Dead (1955, selections)
Translators of ancient Chinese literature Cyril Birch and Donald Keene – Classic of Poetry, Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu, Zhan Guo Ce, The Faults of Qin, Chu Ci, Zhuangzi, Shiji (selections), selections of Han poetry (all 1965) Chung Ling – Bao Linghui, Cai Yan, Wei Shuo, Zhuo Wenjun Thomas Cleary – Mawangdui Silk Texts, Six Secret Teachings, Sun Bin's Art of War, Fan Yunqiao David Hinton – Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun James Legge – Bamboo Annals, Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Classic of Poetry, Doctrine of the Mean, Great Learning, Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Zhuan Lin Yutang – including Ban Gu, Sima Qian, Tao Yuanming, Wang Xizhi, Zhuangzi A. Charles Muller – Brahmajāla Sūtra (with Kenneth K. Tanaka), Doctrine of the Mean, Great Learning Ezra Pound – Great Learning Red Pine – Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (from Chinese version of Guṇabhadra), Li Sao Kenneth Rexroth – Han dynasty and Six Dynasties poets including Bao Linghui, Cai Yan, Wei Shuo, Zhuo Wenjun Arthur Waley – Classic of Poetry, Qu Yuan Burton Watson – Han Feizi, Kumārajīva, Mozi, Shiji, Xunzi, Zhuangzi, Zuo Zhuan
Translators of the Analects David Hinton James Legge A. Charles Muller Ezra Pound Arthur Waley Burton Watson
Translators of The Art of War Thomas Cleary
Translators of Faxian Samuel Beal (1869, the first English translation of Faxian directly from Chinese) Herbert Giles (1877) John Watson Laidlay (1848, via the 1836 French translation by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat) James Legge (1886)
Translators of the I Ching Cary Baynes (via the German of Richard Wilhelm) David Hinton James Legge
Translators of Mencius David Hinton James Legge A. Charles Muller
Translators of the Tao Te Ching Thomas Cleary Herbert Giles David Hinton James Legge Ursula K. Le Guin Stephen Mitchell A. Charles Muller Red Pine Arthur Waley
Translators of the Zhuangzi Thomas Cleary Herbert Giles David Hinton James Legge A. Charles Muller
Translators of ancient Indian literature Thomas Cleary – Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra (1993), Arthashastra (1998), Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (2012) Barbara Stoler Miller – Śatakatraya (1967), Mālavikāgnimitram (1984), Shakuntala (1984), Vikramōrvaśīyam (1984), Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (1996) Monier Monier-Williams – Vikramōrvaśīyam (1849), Shakuntala (1853), Nala and Damayanti (1860) A. Charles Muller – Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (from Chinese version) Red Pine – Heart Sutra W. H. D. Rouse – Jataka tales Arthur W. Ryder – Mṛcchakatika (1905), Śatakatraya (1910), Raghuvaṃśa (1912, selections), Shakuntala (1912), Mālavikāgnimitram (1915), Panchatantra (1925) Andrew Schelling – Gaha Sattasai (2001, selections)
Translators of the Bhagavad Gita Annie Besant (1895) Charles Martin (2013) Juan Mascaro (1962) Barbara Stoler Miller (1986) Stephen Mitchell (2002) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1948) Arthur W. Ryder (1929)
Translators of the Dhammapada Juan Mascaro (1973) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1950)
Translators of the Diamond Sutra A. Charles Muller (from Chinese version) Red Pine
Translators of the Mahabharata Arthur W. Ryder (1912, selections)
Translators of the Ramayana Arthur W. Ryder (1912, selections)
Translators of the Rigveda Max Mueller (1890–1892)
Translators of Sangam literature A. Dakshinamurthy Kausalya Hart George L. Hart Hank Heifetz P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri – translated the Tolkappiyam
Translators of the Tirukkural
Translators of the Upanishads Juan Mascaro (1965) Max Mueller (1879–1884) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1953, selections)
Translators of the Bible
Translators of ancient Greek Apostolos Athanassakis – Apocolocyntosis (1973), Shield of Heracles (1983) William Barker – Basil of Caesarea Jonathan Barnes – pre-Socratic philosophers Willis Barnstone – Heraclitus John Bury – Isocrates Mildred Cooke – Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom E. R. Dodds – Iamblichus, Proclus, Salutius Thomas Drant – Gregory of Nazianzus Charles Abraham Elton – Shield of Heracles (1815) Hugh Evelyn-White – Shield of Heracles (1914) Thomas Francklin – Epistles of Phalaris (1749) Robert Graves – Apocolocyntosis (1935) George Grube – Demetrius of Phalerum Daryl Hine – Batrachomyomachia (2008) Richmond Lattimore – lyrics by Alcaeus, Alcman, Anacreon, Archilochus, Callinus, Corinna, Hipponax, Hybrias, Ibycus, Mimnermus, Phocylides, Praxilla, Semonides of Amorgos, Simonides of Ceos, Solon, Stesichorus, Terpander, Theognis of Megara, Tyrtaeus, Xenophanes (all 1949), Shield of Heracles (1959) Burton Raffel – poetry by Alcaeus, Alcman, Antipater of Sidon, Antipater of Thessalonica, Anyte, Aratus, Asclepiades of Samos, Hegemon of Thasos, Leonidas of Alexandria, Leonidas of Tarentum, Meleager, Menecrates of Ephesus, Phalaecus, Philodemus, Phocylides, Simonides of Ceos, Terpander, Theodoridas of Syracuse W. H. D. Rouse – Apocolocyntosis, Nonnus
Translators of Aeschylus Anne Carson – Oresteia (2009) Wendy Doniger – Oresteia (1988, with David Grene) Edward FitzGerald – Agamemnon David Grene – Prometheus Bound (1942), Oresteia (1988, with Wendy Doniger) Richmond Lattimore – Agamemnon (1947), The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (both 1953) Gilbert Murray – Agamemnon (1920), The Libation Bearers (1923), The Eumenides (1926), The Suppliants (1930), Prometheus Bound (1931), Seven Against Thebes (1935), The Persians (1939) Robert Potter – complete plays (1777) James Scully – Prometheus Bound (1975) David R. Slavitt – Oresteia (1999) Alan Sommerstein – The Eumenides (1989), complete plays and major fragments (2008) Phillip Vellacott – Oresteia (1956), Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (all 1961) Rex Warner – Prometheus Bound (1947)
Translators of the Greek Anthology Kenneth Rexroth (1962, selections) David R. Slavitt (2010, selections)
Translators of Apollonius of Perga Ivor Bulmer-Thomas – Conics (1941, parts of Book I) R. Catesby Taliaferro – Conics (1941, Books I–III) Thomas Heath – Conics (1896)
Translators of Archimedes Thomas Heath – On the Sphere and Cylinder, Measurement of a Circle, On Conoids and Spheroids, On Spirals, On the Equilibrium of Planes, The Sand Reckoner, Quadrature of the Parabola, On Floating Bodies, Book of Lemmas, The Cattle Problem (all 1897)
Translators of Aristarchus of Samos Thomas Heath – On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon (1913)
Translators of Aristophanes William Arrowsmith – The Birds (1961), The Clouds (1962) Charles J. Billson – The Acharnians (1882) Lionel Casson – The Acharnians (1960) John Hookham Frere – The Acharnians, The Birds, The Knights, The Frogs (all 1839) Richmond Lattimore – The Frogs (1962) Gilbert Murray – The Frogs (1902), The Birds (1950), The Knights (1956) Douglass Parker – The Acharnians (1961), The Wasps (1962), Lysistrata (1964), Assemblywomen (1967), Peace, Plutus (both 2014) Benjamin Bickley Rogers – complete plays (1852–1919) Alan Sommerstein – The Acharnians, The Clouds, Lysistrata (all 1974), The Knights, Peace, The Birds, Assemblywomen, Plutus (all 1978, with David Barrett), The Wasps (1983), Thesmophoriazusae (1994), The Frogs (1997) Robert Yelverton Tyrrell – The Acharnians (1883) Arthur Way – The Acharnians (1927)
Translators of Aristotle Jonathan Barnes – Posterior Analytics F. M. Cornford – Physics George Grube – Poetics W. K. C. Guthrie – On the Heavens Benjamin Jowett – Politics C. D. C. Reeve – Eudemian Ethics, Generation of Animals, History of Animals, Metaphysics, Meteorology, Nicomachean Ethics, On Generation and Corruption, On the Heavens, On the Soul, Parts of Animals, Physics, Politics, Rhetoric, Sophistical Refutations, Topics Philip Wicksteed – Physics (translation finished by F. M. Cornford)
Translators of Bacchylides Richard Claverhouse Jebb – poems and fragments (1905) Richmond Lattimore – odes and dithyrambs (1949) David R. Slavitt – odes and dithyrambs (1998)
Translators of Callimachus Stanley Lombardo – Hymns, Epigrams, and fragments (1987, with Diane J. Rayor) Burton Raffel
Translators of Cassius Dio Ian Scott-Kilvert – Roman History (1987)
Translators of Diophantus Thomas Heath – Arithmetica (1885)
Translators of Euclid Henry Billingsley – Elements (1570) Thomas Heath – Elements (1908) R. Catesby Taliaferro – Elements (1952)
Translators of Euripides William Arrowsmith – The Bacchae (1959), Alcestis, Cyclops, Herakles, Orestes, Hecuba Robert Bagg – Hippolytus (1973), The Bacchae (1978) Anne Carson – Electra (2001), Herakles, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Alcestis (all 2006), Iphigenia in Tauris (2013), The Bacchae (2015) David Grene – Hippolytus (1942) Robinson Jeffers – Medea (1946, free adaptation) Richmond Lattimore – The Trojan Women (1947), Alcestis (1955) W. S. Merwin – Iphigenia in Aulis (1978, with George E. Dimock Jr) Gilbert Murray – Hippolytus (1902), The Bacchae (1902), The Trojan Women (1905), Electra (1905), Medea (1910), Iphigenia in Tauris (1911), Rhesus (1913), Alcestis (1915), Ion (1954) Robert Potter – complete plays (1783) Don Taylor – Iphigenia in Aulis (1990) Phillip Vellacott – Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris, Alcestis (all 1953), Ion, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae (all 1954), Medea, Hecuba, Electra, Herakles (all 1963), Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliants, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis (all 1972) Emily Vermeule – Electra (1959) Rex Warner – Medea (1944), Helen (1958), Hippolytus (1958)
Translators of Eusebius Mary Basset – Ecclesiastical History
Translators of Herodotus The Histories is Herodotus' only work. Henry Francis Cary (1849) A. D. Godley (1920–1925) David Grene (1985) Tom Holland (2013) G. C. Macaulay (1904) Enoch Powell (1949) George Rawlinson (1858) Aubrey de Sélincourt (1954) Robin Waterfield (1998)
Translators of Hesiod