Famous translators

person who translates written text from one language to another

1,428 people

All Alive Deceased
Martin Luther

Martin Luther

1483 – 1546 · Age 62
Deceased
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821 – 1881 · Age 59
Deceased
Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837 · Age 37
Deceased
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

1883 – 1924 · Age 40
Deceased
Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli

1469 – 1527 · Age 58
Deceased
Lord Byron

Lord Byron

1788 – 1824 · Age 36
Deceased
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 – 1543 · Age 70
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1646 – 1716 · Age 70
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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973 · Age 81
Deceased
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840 – 1893 · Age 53
Deceased
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

1899 – 1986 · Age 86
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Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

1759 – 1805 · Age 45
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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

1821 – 1867 · Age 46
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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

1343 – 1400 · Age 57
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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788 – 1860 · Age 72
Deceased
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

1911 – 2006 · Age 94
Deceased
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

0750 – 0846
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Petrarch

Petrarch

1304 – 1374 · Age 69
Deceased
Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

1588 – 1679 · Age 91
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Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940 · Age 81
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Erasmus

Erasmus

1466 – 1536 · Age 69
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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco

1932 – 2016 · Age 84
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Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

1313 – 1375 · Age 62
Deceased
Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

1818 – 1883 · Age 64
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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

1713 – 1784 · Age 70
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q333634