Edward FitzGerald
Dick Davis, "Edward FitzGerald" (1809-1883), British translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (by far the most famous translation ever made from Persian verse into English), as well as Jāmī’s Salāmān o Absāl and ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr. Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, December 15 1999, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fitzgerald-