Kenneth Roy Norman FBA (21 July 1925 – 5 November 2020) was a British philologist at the University of Cambridge and a leading authority on Pali and other Middle Indo-Aryan languages.

Norman was born on 21 July 1925, and was educated at Taunton School in Somerset and Downing College, Cambridge, receiving his M.A.

[1] I was trained as a classicist and studied classical philology, in the form which was current in my student days, i.e. the investigation of the relationship between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit in particular, and between other Indo-European languages in general.

[1] From 1981 to 1994 he was President of the Pali Text Society,[3]: xi  and from January to March 1994 he was the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

[2]: vii He was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1983[1][4] and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1985.