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Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909) was a British historian and linguist who worked for the British Museum.
Bain was a fluent linguist who could use over twenty languages. Besides translating a number of books he also used his skills to write learned books on foreign people and folklore. Bain was a frequent contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica. His contributions were biographies and varied from Andrew Aagensen to Aleksander Wielopolski. He taught himself Hungarian in order that he could read Mór Jókai in the original after first reading him in German. He translated from Finnish, Danish and Russian and also tackled Turkish authors via Hungarian. He was the most prolific translator into English from Hungarian in the nineteenth century. He married late and died young after publishing a wide range of literature from or about Europe.

The Robert Nisbet Bain Collection includes:

- Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (English) (as Translator)
- The Day of Wrath (English) (as Translator)
- Eyes Like the Sea (English) (as Translator)
- Halil the Pedlar
A Tale of Old Stambul (English) (as Translator)
- A Hungarian Nabob (English) (as Translator)
- The Lion of Janina
The Last Days of the Janissaries (English) (as Translator)
- Midst the Wild Carpathians (English) (as Translator)
- The Poor Plutocrats (English) (as Translator)
- Pretty Michal (English) (as Translator)
- Russian Fairy Tales
From the Skazki of Polevoi (English) (as Author)
- The Slaves of the Padishah (English) (as Translator)
- Tales From Jókai (English) (as Translator)
- Weird Tales from Northern Seas (English) (as Translator)