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Jacques Amyot – produced a famous version of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, later rendered into English by Sir Thomas North; E. S. Ariel – translator of the Kural; Charles Baudelaire – produced a famous and immensely influential translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe; Yves Bonnefoy – noted contemporary translator, particularly of ...
This is a list of personal names known in English that are modified from another language and are or were not used among the person themselves. It does not include: names of monarchs, which are commonly translated (e.g. Pope Francis), although current and recent monarchs are often untranslated today (e.g. Felipe VI of Spain)
Alexander O. Smith – professional translator who worked on translations of different media, but is most famous for the English localizations of video games like Final Fantasy X, Ace Attorney, and Vagrant Story; Lucien Stryk and Takahashi Ikemoto; Royall Tyler – translator of The Tale of Genji as well as various Japanese folklore and Noh plays
Ziad Fazah (1954–), Liberian-born Lebanese language teacher, now living in Brazil. He is famous for claiming to speak more than fifty languages, and for a time was listed in The Guinness Book of Records. It is unclear how many languages he can in fact speak. [218] Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and producer.
In some geographical settings, however, the source language is the translator's first language because not enough people speak the source language as a second language. [45] For instance, a 2005 survey found that 89% of professional Slovene translators translate into their second language, usually English. [45]
Xu Yuanchong was born in Nanchang County (now Nanchang), Jiangxi. [3] His mother, who was well educated and good at painting, had great impact on Xu in his pursuit of beauty and literature. His uncle Xiong Shiyi was a translator, who translated the play Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui into English, which was a hit in the UK. [ 3 ]
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1844–1912), German-Polish professor; one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century Georg Steller (1709–1746), naturalist William Stern (1871–1938), psychologist, philosopher
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht, of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.