Arthur Richard Valentine Cooper (1916–1988) was a British codebreaker, who became a translator of Chinese literature after retirement.
He is best remembered for his translations of the Tang dynasty poets Li Bai and Du Fu, but is also known for his original research on the early Chinese script.
He developed an early interest in languages, learning Icelandic before turning to Japanese and Chinese.
He joined the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) in 1938, and in 1939 he was sent out to Hong Kong to work at the Far East Combined Bureau, a GC&CS outpost which moved to Singapore after the outbreak of WWII.
There Cooper spent several months working at the Special Intelligence Bureau in Melbourne before returning to GC&CS, which had moved to Bletchley Park in the summer of 1939.