George Rapall Noyes (March 6, 1798 – June 3, 1868) was a Unitarian minister and scholar at Harvard University.
[1] Noyes was born in Newburyport and graduated from Harvard in 1818, studied divinity there, was licensed to preach in 1822, served as tutor in 1823–27, and in 1827 was ordained pastor of the First Unitarian Society of Petersham, Massachusetts.
[2] From October 1840 until his death, he was Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature in the Theological Department of Harvard College.
[2] Noyes died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a few days after correcting the final page proofs for his New Testament translation.
[3][4] Noyes devoted many years to the translation of the Old and New Testaments, to which he added copious notes.