Thomas Holland (1549 – 17 March 1612[1]) was an English Calvinist scholar and theologian, and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.

From 1585 to 1587 he left Oxford to serve as personal chaplain to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was appointed governor of the Netherlands.

Dudley, who was an ardent Protestant, utilized Holland in maintaining religious rigor among the troops during the two-year campaign which ended without great success and few battle engagements.

[citation needed] Holland married Susan Gunter on 22 July 1593 in All Saints' Church and had six children, three sons and three daughters, all christened in North Moreton (then in Berkshire) between 1594 and 1601:[1] In June 1604, 54 of England's most prominent linguists and scholars were commissioned into 6 groups to translate the Bible into English.

He had stoutly resisted the "popish innovations" which Richard Bancroft and William Laud strove too successfully to introduce at Oxford.