Ian Dalrymple McFarlane, MBE, FBA (7 November 1915 – 17 August 2002) was a British scholar of French literature.
The son of a Scottish naval engineer and shipyard manager, McFarlane was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 7 November 1915.
[1] McFarlane served as an officer in the British Army from 1940 and was captured by the Germans during their invasion of France while he was waiting to be evacuated at Dunkirk.
In 1947, he was also elected to the first fellowship in French at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; his modern languages colleagues were Francis Bennett and Eric Blackall.
He also produced an edition of Maurice Scève's Délie (1966), and of Pierre Corneille's plays Cinna ou la clémence d'Auguste (1965) and Horace (1971); he edited The Entry of Henry II into Paris 16 June 1549 (1982) and an anthology Renaissance Latin Poetry (1980), as well as the collection Renaissance Studies: Six Essays (with A. H. Ashe and D. D. R. Owen, 1972), a Festschrift for Harry Barnwell and a collection of essays brought together in memory of Richard Sayce (the latter two in 1982).