Ronald Francis Hingley (26 April 1920 in Edinburgh – 23 January 2010) was an English scholar, translator and historian of Russia, specializing in Russian history and literature.
Hingley was the translator and editor of the nine-volume collection of Chekhov's works published by Oxford University Press between 1974 and 1980 (known as the Oxford Chekhov).
[1] He also wrote numerous books including biographies of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Stalin and Boris Pasternak.
He won the James Tait Black Award for his 1976 biography A New Life of Anton Chekhov.
He also translated several works of Russian literature, among them Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich which Hingley co-translated with Max Hayward.