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17th-century translators

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Nicolae Milescu

Moldovan writer and diplomat

Nicolas Trigault

French Jesuit, missionary and writer

Șerban I Cantacuzino, Prince of Wallachia

Prince of Wallachia from 1678 to 1688

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

German writer, diplomat and lawyer (1635-1683)

Wojciech Bobowski

Polish-Ottoman musician (1610-1675)

Arngrímur Jónsson

Icelandic writer

`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni

Grand Mufti of India and historian (1540–1615)

Stjepan Gradić

Croatian philosopher and scientist (1613–1683)

John Mavrocordatos

Phanariote Prince

João Ferreira de Almeida

Portuguese missionary and translator (1628–1691)

Alexander Mavrocordatos

Greek physician and Dragoman of the Porte (1636-1709)

Abraham Ecchellensis

Syrian translator (1605–1664)

Francisco de Pina

Portuguese Jesuit missionary

Gaspar Aquino de Belen

Filipino writer

Panagiotis Nikousios

Burgundian diplomat (1599-1654)

Udriște Năsturel

Wallachian scholar, poet, and statesman

Swedish Lutheran minister in New Sweden

The "!Oroǀõas" ("Ward-girl"), spelled in Dutch as Krotoa or Kroket, otherwise known by her Christian name Eva (c. 1643 – 29 July 1674), was a !Uriǁ'aeǀona translator who worked for the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) during the founding of the Cape Colony.

Moldovan bishop

Felix Kadlinský

Czech baroque writer, poet, religion writer and translator

Theodore Rodenburg

Dutch poet, playwright and writer

Hadrian à Saravia

Church of England clergyman and theologian