Francis Joseph Steingass (March 16, 1825, Frankfurt am Main – January 1903) was a British linguist and orientalist.
Steingass completed his education, including a PhD, in Munich, Germany.
Later, he was a professor of Modern Languages at Birmingham and a professor of Modern Languages and Resident Lecturer on Arabic Languages, Literature & Law at the Oriental Institute, Woking.
He mastered 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.
He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.