My candidate would by William Tyndale. John Wycliffe made an earlier attempt, but he only used the New Testament and copied heavily from earlier works, including the Latin Vulgate. Tyndale translated the entire bible, from original languages, and paid for it with his life.
95-98% of the King James version (AV) is the work of William Tyndale.
John Wycliffe was the theologian who was the first to translate the Bible into his native English. John Wycliffe was an English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher at Oxford in England.
John Wycliffe.
The first English translation of the Bible was done by John Wycliffe around 1380 AD.
William Tyndale translated the first English Bible. On October 6 1536 he was executed at Vilvorde, Belgium.
Portions of the Bible were translated in the seventh century - please see relevant answers.
The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in the 1380's by John Wycliffe. It was translated from the Latin Vulgate.
John Wycliff was the first man who translated the whole Bible into English in the 14th century. However, The Venerable Bede was the first man to translate portions of the Scriptures into English in the 7th century. (see Wickipedia - English Translations of the Bible)
It was John Wyclif in the 1300's.
All English copies of the Hebrew Scriptures are translated from Hebrew to English. These books are always called The Hebrew Bible (or the Tanakh, תנ״ך)Christians refer to these books as "The Old Testament"
Wycliffe translated it into Latin, but Tyndale translated it into English.
Whether Protestant or Catholic, it's good he allowed the Bible to be translated into English. He was the first Monarch to do this.
The Bible has been translated into about 5000 modern languages, plus many more other languages down through the centuries that are not used now. The Bible has been translated into English about 80 times since John Wycliff's first English translation.