Bible Translator

This page lists 601 biographies of bible translators, covering lives from AD 1 to 2000. Featuring Anton Christian Bang, Edgar J. Goodspeed and John Colenso. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

George Ricker Berry

1865 – 1945

James Muilenburg

1896 – 1974

Peter Milne

1834 – 1924

Esaias Tegnér the Younger

1843 – 1928

Dumitru Cornilescu

1891 – 1975

David Rosenberg

b. 1943

Richard C. H. Lenski

1864 – 1936

Alexander Campbell

1788 – 1866

Joseph Henry Thayer

1828 – 1901

Ivan Panin

1855 – 1942

Gustav Sicher

1880 – 1960

Ravela Joseph

1937 – 2024

S. W. Schmitthenner

1928 – 2015

Graham Staines

1941 – 1999

Frank E. Gaebelein

1899 – 1983

John Philipose

Gennady of Novgorod

1410 – 1505

Phyllis Bird

b. 1934

Theodotion

200 – 250

Aquila of Sinope

100 – 200

John W. Mackenzie

1845 – 1914

Daniel Macdonald

1846 – 1927

Baruch A. Levine

1930 – 2021

John Painter

b. 1935

S. Lewis Johnson

1915 – 2004

Myles Coverdale

1488 – 1569

Bonifaci Ferrer

1355 – 1417

A. B. Masilamani

1914 – 1990

Denis Amelote

1606 – 1678

Chrysostom Arangaden

1916 – 2004

Basil Rebera

1935 – 2021

Richard Hess

b. 1954

Arthur L. Hammond

1896 – 1979

Nicholas of Japan

1836 – 1912

Jakub Wujek

1541 – 1597

Heinrich August Jäschke

1817 – 1883

John Worsley

1696 – 1767

Victor Danielsen

1894 – 1961

Leon J. Wood

1918 – 1977

John Gibson Paton

1824 – 1907

Rudolph Bernhard

Pierre Statorius

1530 – 1591

James Cosh

1838 – 1900

Angelo Traina

1889 – 1971

Harry Orlinsky

1908 – 1992

Giovanni Battista Jona

Saadia Gaon

882 – 942

William Yates

1792 – 1845

Marten Woudstra

1922 – 1991

Aster Ganno

1872 – 1964

George Ryves

James Gordon

1832 – 1872

Karl Gützlaff

1803 – 1851

Robert L. Saucy

1930 – 2015

Kenneth N. Taylor

1917 – 2005

Samuel H. Kellogg

1839 – 1899

Roger Fenton

1565 – 1615

Herbert M. Wolf

1938 – 2002

Nicholas Walsh

1548 – 1585

David Evan Jones

1870 – 1947

W. Hall Harris, III

b. 1952

Neophytus Vamvas

1776 – 1856

Robert A. Kraft

1934 – 2023

Gottlieb Viehe

1839 – 1901

William Swan

1791 – 1866

Edmund Prys

1541 – 1624

Seckel Isaac Fränkel

1765 – 1835

Isobel Miller Kuhn

1901 – 1957

Cyrus Adler

1863 – 1940

Cipriano de Valera

1531 – 1602

John Sailhamer

1946 – 2017

Harold Hoehner

1935 – 2009

William Salesbury

1520 – 1584

Joseph Lilly

1893 – 1952

Allen Wikgren

1906 – 1998

Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg

1682 – 1719

Laszlo Bátori

1420 – 1456

Don Richardson

1935 – 2018

John Rainolds

1549 – 1607

William West Kirkby

1828 – 1907

Valentinus Smalcius

1572 – 1622

Loimata Iupati

Richard Simon

1638 – 1712

Ratnakar Hari Kelkar

1901 – 1985

Richard Francis Weymouth

1822 – 1902

Tewolde-Medhin Gebre-Medhin

1860 – 1930

Jan Łaski

1499 – 1560

Joshua Marshman

1768 – 1837

Theodore Beza

1519 – 1605

Edward Lively

1545 – 1605

William Kethe

Ronald F. Youngblood

1931 – 2014

Eloíno Nácar Fúster

1870 – 1948

Bo Giertz

1905 – 1998

Symmachus

b. 200

Eugene H. Peterson

1932 – 2018

William Morgan

1547 – 1604

Faye Edgerton

1889 – 1968

Robert Alter

b. 1935

Johann Ludwig Krapf

1810 – 1881