Reuben Levy (28 April 1891 – 6 September 1966) was Professor of Persian at the University of Cambridge.
Levy was educated at the Friars School, Bangor, the University College of North Wales, Bangor and Jesus College, Oxford, studying Persian, Turkish and the Semitic languages.
During the First World War, he was a captain in General Staff Intelligence in Mesopotamia (1916 to 1918), and worked in the Iraq Political Service (1918 to 1920).
A Baghdad Chronicle (1929) was an account of the Muslim Middle Ages and Abbasid Caliphate.
He also produced translations and critical editions of texts, including the 11th century Persian text Qabus nama (A Mirror for Princes, 1951), The Tales of Marzuban (1959) and The Shah-nama (1966).