Marju Lepajõe (28 October 1962 - 4 July 2019) was an Estonian classical philologist, translator and religious historian.

[4] In 1996, Lepajõe defended her Master's degree in Classical Philology at the University of Tartu, her research project was entitled: The Fictitious Element in the Dares Phrygian Trojan Chronicle and Its Links to Contemporary Historiography.

[5] In 2018, Lepajõe defended her doctoral dissertation, which was entitled: Pastors and Literary Culture: Variations of Christian Humanism in Estonia and Livonia in the First Half of the 17th Century.

[7] Between 1985-8 Lepajõe was Senior Librarian, Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the University of Tartu Library.

She was also a prolific translator, working on texts from ancient, medieval and modern authors, including: Plato, Plotinos, Gregory of Tours, Innocent III, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Martin Luther, Johannes Risingh, Heinrich von Kleist, Otto Wilhelm Masing.