English translated personal names
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:
- aliases, pseudonyms, and stage names (such as the librettist Metastasio)
- latinized spellings of other languages and other spelling variants (such as removal/spelling out of diacritics, e.g. Arnold Schoenberg, born Arnold Schönberg, US citizen in 1941)[1])
- permanent name changes, colloquially known as "Ellis Island Specials" (such as George Frideric Handel born Georg Friedrich Händel, naturalised British subject in 1727; Sumner Redstone, legally translated his originally German/Yiddish surname Rothstein along with the rest of his family in 1940)
This list also includes names from non-English languages the individual did not use, such as Latin or French.
Modern convention is not to translate modern personal names.[2]
Translated names currently used
| English name | Original name | Language | Notability | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Agricola | Alexander Ackerman | Dutch | ||
| Averroes | Muḥammad Ibn-'Aḥmad Ibn-Rushd | Arabic | ||
| Avicenna | 'Ali Ibn Al-Ḥusayn Ibn-'Abdillāh Ibn-Ḥasan Ibn-Sīnā | Arabic | ||
| Bill Alexander | Wilhelm Alexander | German | ||
| Catiline | Lucius Sergius Catilina | Latin | ||
| Christopher Columbus | Cristóbal Colón | Spanish | ||
| Cristoffa Corombo | Ligurian | |||
| Claudius Salmasius | Claude Saumise | French | ||
| Clovis I | Chlodovechus | Latin | ||
| Hlōdowig | Frankish | |||
| Confucius | Kǒng Qiū (孔 丘) | Mandarin | Birth name, no longer used | |
| Kǒng Fūzǐ (孔 夫子) | Mandarin | |||
| Cornplanter | Gaiänt'wakê | Seneca | ||
| John Abeel III | English | Birth name, no longer used | ||
| Denis the Carthusian | Denys van Leeuwen | Dutch | ||
| Ferdinand Magellan | Fernão de Magalhães | Portuguese | ||
| Ferenc Dávid | Franz David Hertel | German | Hungarian and German names were both in use | |
| George Santayana | Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana | Spanish | ||
| Georgius Agricola | Georg Pawer | German | ||
| Gerardus Mercator | Gheert Cremer | Dutch | ||
| Henry of Ghent | Henri de Gand | French | ||
| Henricus Gadavensus | Latin | |||
| Hieronymous Bosch | Jheronimus Bosch | Dutch | ||
| Homer | Hómēros (Ὅμηρος) | Ancient Greek | ||
| Horace | Quintus Horatius Flaccus | Latin | ||
| Hugo Etherianis | Ugo Eteriano | Italian | ||
| Hugo Grotius | Huig de Groot | Dutch | ||
| Ignatius of Loyola | Ignacio de Loyola | Spanish | ||
| Jacobus Arminius | Jacob Hermanszoon | Dutch | ||
| Jackie Mason | Yacov Maza | Hebrew | Mason's first language was Yiddish. | |
| John Amos Comenius | Jan Amos Komenský | Czech | ||
| John Cabot | Zuan Chabotto | Venetian | ||
| John Calvin | Jehan Cauvin | French | ||
| John Huss | Jan Hus | Czech | ||
| John of Damascus | Yuḥannā Ad-Dimashqi (يوحنا الدمشقي,) | Arabic | ||
| Josephus | Titus Flavius Josephus | Latin | Full Latin name. | |
| Yosef Ben-Matityahu (יוסף בן מתתיהו) | Hebrew | |||
| Lee Iacocca | Lido Iacocca | Italian | ||
| Livy | Titus Livius Patavinus | Latin | ||
| Maimonides | Moses Maimonides | Latin | ||
| Moshe Ben-Maymon (משה בן מימון) | Hebrew | |||
| Mūsa Ibn-Maymūn (موسى بن ميمون) | Arabic | |||
| Mark Antony | Marcus Antonius | Latin | ||
| Mencius | Mèng Kē (孟 軻) | Mandarin | Birth name, no longer used | |
| Mèngzī (孟 子) | Mandarin | |||
| Michael Servetus | Miguel Serveto | Spanish | ||
| Nachmanides | Bonastruc ça Porta | Catalan | ||
| Moshe Ben-Nachman (משה בן נחמן) | Hebrew | |||
| Nicolas Steno | Nicolas Stenonis | Latin | ||
| Niels Steensen | Danish | |||
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Niklas Koppernigk[3] | German | ||
| Nostradamus | Michel de Nostredame | French | ||
| Ovid | Publius Ovidius Naso | Latin | ||
| Paul of Venice | Paolo da Veneto | Italian | ||
| Paolo Nicoletto | Italian | Birth name, no longer used | ||
| Paulus Venetus | Latin | |||
| Pete Fountain | Pierre LaFontaine, Jr. | French | ||
| Peter Damian | Pietro Damiani | Italian | ||
| Peter Lombard | Pietro Lombardo | Italian | ||
| Peter of Bruys | Pierre de Bruys | French | ||
| Peter of Ravenna | Pietro de Ravenna | Italian | ||
| Peter Waldo | Pierre Vaudès | French | ||
| Petrarch | Francesco Petracco | Italian | ||
| Franciscus Petrarca | Latin | |||
| Petrus Apianis | Peter Bienewitz | German | ||
| Pompey | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus | Latin | ||
| Regiomontanus | Johannes Müller von Königsberg | German | ||
| Rodolphus Agricola | Roelof Huysman | Dutch | ||
| Samuel Maresius | Samuel Des Marets | French | ||
| Terence | Publius Terentius Afer | Latin | ||
| Theodore Beza | Théodore de Bèze | French | ||
| Thomas Aquinas | Tommaso d'Aquino | Italian | ||
| Thomas à Kempis | Thomas Hammerlein | German | Birth name, no longer used | |
| Thomas Hemerkin | Dutch | Birth name, no longer used | ||
| Thomas van Kempen | Dutch | |||
| Thomas von Kempen | German | |||
| Tycho Brahe | Tyge Brahe | Danish | ||
| Virgil | Publius Vergilius Maro | Latin | ||
| William of Salicet | Guglielmo da Saliceto | Italian |
See also
References
- John R. Shook – Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers: Volume 1 – 2005 Page 2153 "He became a US citizen in 1941, thereafter spelling his name as Schoenberg."
- Journal of the Kafka Society of America Kafka Society of America 2003 Volume 27, Nos 1 & 2 – Page 54 "To begin with false notes, the conventional recent practice among translators has been not to translate personal names, and we might therefore think of the transformation of the German Georg into an English George (Jolas, Beuscher, ."
- Dava Sobel A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos – Page 5 – 2011 "He was christened for his father — Mikolaj in Polish, Niklas in German, his native tongue. Later, as a scholar, he Latinized his name, but he grew up Niklas Koppernigk,"
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