Interpreters

Pedro or Pêro da Covilhã (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu dɐ kuviˈʎɐ̃]; c. 1460 – after 1526) was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer.

John Tanner (c. 1780 – c. 1846) was captured by Ojibwa Indians as a child after his family had homesteaded on the Ohio River in present-day Kentucky.

Park Jung-yang (Korean: 박중양; Hanja: 朴重陽; sometimes transliterated as Park Joong-yang, May 3, 1874 or 1872 — April 23, 1959) was a Korean Joseon and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberal and social activist.

Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480, Lisbon, Portugal – 1 May 1521, Philippines) was a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 1516–1517, with the post of scrivener in Cannanore factory and sometimes interpreter of the local language (Malayalam).

Gustav Gustavovich Shpet (Russian: Густа́в Густа́вович Шпет) (April 7 [O.S. March 26] 1879, Kyiv, Ukraine – November 16, 1937, Tomsk, Russia) was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher, psychologist, art theoretician, and interpreter (he knew 17 languages).

César Oudin (c. 1560 - 1 October 1625) was a French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer.

Benedict of Poland (Latin: Benedictus Polonus, Polish Benedykt Polak) (ca. 1200 – ca. 1280) was a Polish Franciscan friar, traveler, explorer, and interpreter.

James Otis Purdy (July 17, 1914 – March 13, 2009) was a controversial American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright who, since his debut in 1956, published over a dozen novels, and many collections of poetry, short stories, and plays.

In 1892 he was elected Chairman of Te Kotahitanga, the movement for an autonomous Māori parliament, at its first meeting at Waipatu.

Kepa Hamuera Anaha Ehau (5 November 1885 – 10 February 1970) was a New Zealand tribal leader, law clerk, interpreter, soldier, historian, orator.

Kingi Te Ahoaho Tahiwi OBE (1883–1948) was a notable New Zealand teacher, interpreter, translator, rugby official, musician.

Rangiputangatahi Mawhete OBE (4 March 1880 – 24 July 1961), born as William Arthur Moffatt and commonly known as Rangi Mawhete, was a New Zealand land agent, interpreter and politician.

Te Heke-rangatira-ki-Nukutaurua Boyd (c.1886 – 29 May 1959) was a New Zealand tribal leader and interpreter.

Thanadelthur (c. 1697 – 5 February 1717) was a woman of the Chipewyan nation who served as a guide and interpreter for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Tye Leung Schulze became the first Chinese American woman to vote when she cast a ballot in San Francisco on May 19, 1912.

Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 – July 13, 1760), born Johann Conrad Weiser, Jr.

Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus (10 July 1916 – 20 November 2004) was a German philologist who worked as an interpreter in Hamburg, Germany during World War II, and later as a physician in the United States.

Michael Rotohiko Jones CBE MM (14 September 1895 – 24 January 1978) was a New Zealand interpreter, land agent, sportsman, private secretary, public administrator and broadcaster.

Angus William McDonald (February 14, 1799 – December 1, 1864) was a 19th-century American military officer and lawyer in the U.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Baucke (7 July 1848–6 June 1931) was a New Zealand linguist, ethnologist, journalist and interpreter.

John Gyles (c. 1680 at Pemaquid, Maine – 1755 at Roxbury, Boston ) was an interpreter and soldier, most known for his account of his experiences with the Maliseet tribes at their headquarters at Meductic, on the Saint John River.

Pei Te Hurinui Jones OBE (9 September 1898 – 7 May 1976) was a New Zealand tribal leader, interpreter, land officer, writer, translator and genealogist.

Pepene Eketone (ca. 1856 – 9 November 1933) was a New Zealand interpreter, native agent, assessor and politician.

Black Beaver or Suck-tum-mah-kway (1806—1880, Delaware) was a Native American trapper for the American Fur Company, a scout and guide, and interpreter who was fluent in English, and several European and Native American languages.

Philip Madoc (5 July 1934 – 5 March 2012) was a Welsh actor who had many television and film roles, including the lead role in the detective series A Mind to Kill, the eponymous hero of The Life and Times of David Lloyd George and famously, a U-boat captain in an episode of Dad's Army.

Karauria Tiweka Anaru (2 June 1901–30 October 1977) was a New Zealand interpreter, law clerk, local politician and community leader.

Fernando or Hernando (de) Alvarado Tezozómoc was a colonial Nahua noble.

Princess Fawzia (Arabic: الأميرة فوزية‎‎) (7 April 1940 – 27 January 2005) was the second daughter of King Farouk I of Egypt from his first wife Queen Farida.

Anthony Sadowski (c. 1669 – April 22, 1736) was a Polish-born Indian trader and interpreter employed by the provincial governor of Pennsylvania as an Indian agent in the western country.

George Henry Martin Johnson (Onwanonsyshon) (October 7, 1816 – February 19, 1884) was a member of the Wolf clan and selected as a hereditary chief of the Mohawk of the Six Nations in Canada; he also served as an official interpreter and informal diplomat between the Mohawk and Canadian governments.

Prince Ludwig Karl of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (German: Ludwig Karl Prinz zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg) (born 19 July 1864 in Kreuzwertheim, Kingdom of Bavaria; died 26 March 1899 in Furageros outside Manila, Philippine Republic) was a London socialite who became known for his mysterious disappearance, and subsequent reappearance in the Philippines during the Spanish–American War in which he was killed during fighting between Emilio Aguinaldo-led insurgents and the United States Army at the Battle of Caloocan of the Philippine–American War.

Louis Wellington Parore (26 December 1888 – 3 March 1953), also known as Lou Parore, was a New Zealand Māori leader, interpreter, land court agent.

John Atirau Asher OBE (8 August 1892 – 14 December 1966) was a New Zealand tribal leader, hotelier, interpreter, racehorse owner.

Sedat Bornovalı (born 31 May 1970 in Istanbul) is an art historian (PhD), interpreter and professional tourist guide in Italian, English and Turkish.

Benedict Arnold (21 December 1615 – 19 June 1678) was president and then governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, serving for a total of 11 years in these roles.

Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg (pronounced "Falkenberry" in Swedish) (c.1640—c.1712), also known as Hendrick Jacobs or Henry Jacobs, was an early American settler along the Delaware River, and was considered to be the foremost language interpreter for the purchase of Indian lands in southern New Jersey.

Henry Matthew Stowell (1859–1944) was a notable New Zealand interpreter and genealogist.

Madame Montour (1667 or c. 1685 – c. 1753) was an influential interpreter, diplomat, and local leader of Algonquin and French Canadian ancestry.

Nataliya Dmytruk (Ukrainian: Наталія Дмитрук, alternate transliteration: Natalya Dmytruk) (born 1957 or 1958) is a former sign language interpreter on the Ukrainian state-run channel UT1 news broadcasts.

Rongowhakaata "Rongo" Pere Halbert (2 February 1894 – 11 April 1973) was a New Zealand tribal leader, interpreter, historian, genealogist.

Zhang Lu (張璐) (1977-) is a Chinese diplomat who interprets for senior Chinese officials.

Faubion Bowers (29 January 1917 – 17 November 1999) was a noted academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre.

Hendrick Conrad Joannes Heusken (January 20, 1832 – January 15, 1861) was a Dutch-American interpreter for the first American consulate in Japan, established at Gyokusen-ji in Shimoda, Shizuoka in the late Bakumatsu period.

Lucy Takiora Lord (c.1842 – 3 September 1893) was a New Zealand guide and interpreter.

Alexander Shand (1840–1910) was a notable New Zealand farmer, interpreter and ethnographer.

Antoine LeClaire (December 15, 1797 – September 25, 1861) was a US Army interpreter, landowner in Scott County, Iowa and Rock Island County, Illinois, businessman, philanthropist and principal founder of Davenport, Iowa.

Arapeta Marukitepua Pitapitanuiarangi Awatere DSO, MC (25 April 1910 – 6 March 1976) was a New Zealand interpreter, military leader, maori welfare officer, local politician, and convicted murderer.

Carmen Celia Beltrán (February 19, 1905 – May 26, 2002) was a Mexican American writer of poetry, plays, essays and radio and religious dramas.

Charles Oliver Bond Davis (c.1818–28 June 1887) was a New Zealand interpreter, writer and land purchase agent.

Constance Alice Barnicoat (27 November 1872 – 16 September 1922) was a New Zealand secretary, interpreter, mountaineer and journalist.

David MacNish (c. 1807 – 10 April 1863) was a New Zealand interpreter, labourer, bricklayer, farmer and Pākehā Māori.

Hamiora Wiremu Maioha, OBE (21 September 1888–1963) was a New Zealand interpreter, farmer and community leader.

The International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC – Association internationale des interprètes de conférence) was founded in 1953.

James Caddell (c. 1794–c.1826) was a New Zealand Pākehā Māori, sealer and interpreter.

General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall KCB, CBE, DSO, MC (27 May 1887 – 1985) was a British Army officer and linguist.

James Waitaringa Mapu (4 March 1894–8 August 1985) was a New Zealand interpreter, sportsman, farmer and community leader.

Jerry Potts (1840 – July 14, 1896), (also known as Ky-yo-kosi, meaning "Bear Child"), was an American - Canadian plainsman, buffalo hunter, horse trader, interpreter, and scout of Anglo-Métis heritage.