Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London.

[1] He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police.

He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia.

He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers.

This biography about a translator from the United Kingdom is a stub.