Piotr Kochanowski (1566–1620) was a Polish nobleman, poet and translator.

He translated into Polish what were generally esteemed to be the two greatest modern epic poems: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso (Roland Enraged) and Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).

[2] His version of Tasso's poem served as the Polish national epic.

Piotr Kochanowski was the second poet in Poland (after Sebastian Grabowiecki) to use ottava rima, which became very popular in Baroque Polish poetry.

He died on 2 August 1620 and was buried at the Franciscan church in Kraków.