Miriam Shlesinger (Hebrew: מרים שלזינגר) (20 May 1947, in Miami Beach – 10 November 2012) was a US-Israeli linguist and interpreter.

She completed her MA in Poetics and Literary Studies in 1990 at the Tel Aviv University with a thesis on "Simultaneous interpretation as a factor in effecting shifts in the position of texts in the oral-literate continuum".

[3] Shlesinger was head of the Language Policy Research Center at Bar-Ilan University.

She developed a course in Translation in the Community at the Language Policy Research Center in order to give basic interpreting skills to students who spoke minority languages (such as Arabic, Russian or Amharic) so that they could work with recent immigrants.

In 2001 the Copenhagen Business School made Shlesinger a Doctor honoris causa.