Bernard John Scudder (29 August 1954 — 15 October 2007) was an award-winning British translator from Icelandic into English. He died in 2007. His translations include the work of best-selling crime writer Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir. Scudder's translation of Indriðason's novel Silence of the Grave won the 2005 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger).