Jan Čermák (born 8 July 1962)[1] is a Czech linguist, literary scholar, and translator.

Since 2022, he has been the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.

[2] Čermák's research is focused on the history of English, with particular interests in Old and Early Middle English morphology and morphonology, word-formation and literary language.

He is a specialist in Old and Middle English literature, with particular interests in heroic poetry, romance and the Alliterative Revival.

[3] His translations from Old English into Czech include Beowulf, The Exodus, The Dream of the Rood, The Rune Poem and a selection of the Anglo-Saxon laws.