Helen Lane (1921 – August 29, 2004) was an American translator of Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian language literary works into English.
She translated works by numerous important authors including Jorge Amado, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Octavio Paz, Nélida Piñon, Augusto Roa Bastos, Juan José Saer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Lane began her career in the 1940s as a government translator in Los Angeles, before moving to New York City to work for publishers there.
In addition to her books, she also provided subtitles for films by Jean-Luc Godard and Haskell Wexler.
She was born Helen Ruth Overholt in Minneapolis and graduated summa cum laude in 1943 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where in 1953 she obtained a master's degree in Romance Languages and Romance Literatures.