David Robert McLintock (17 November 1930 – 16 October 2003) was a British scholar and translator of German literature. He was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire. He won a scholarship to study at Queen's College, Oxford, where he gained a First in French and German. He then obtained a Diploma in Comparative Philology under Leonard Palmer and C.L. Wrenn; his chosen languages were Greek and Gothic. He went on to study in Münster with Jost Trier, and in Munich under Wilhelm Wissmann. He also translated Sigmund Freud and Heinrich Böll, as well as works by Christian Meier, Martin Warnke and Samuel Wittwer.