William Charles Milne (美魏茶; April 22, 1815 - May 25, 1863) was a British Protestant missionary, translator, and interpreter in China. His father, William Milne (1785 - 1822), was one of the first Protestant missionaries to travel to China, and only the second of the London Missionary Society. When Milne the elder died (his wife having preceded him in death), his children were sent back to England for education. William Charles Milne followed in his father's footsteps, joining the London Missionary Society and arriving in Macao in late 1839, in the opening phase of the Opium War. In the following years, Milne traveled throughout China, settling in Shanghai and later in Ningbo, where he served on the Bible Translation Committee. After returning to England for health reasons in 1852, he came back to China in 1856 to work as an interpreter for the British Legation, eventually working as a tutor to British interpreters in Beijing, where he died in 1863. Aside from his translations and other works, Milne's 1857 book Life in China was a popular work in Europe among those curious about China, reflecting his deep knowledge and experience of the country's language and culture.