Cecilia Banu (Russian:Цецилия Бенциановна Бану; also known as Cecilia Banu-Lahuti; born Cecilia Bentsianovna Bakaleishchik in Lyubech, Chernigov province on 13 March 1911; died in Moscow, 11 January 1998) was a scholar of Iranian studies, a poet and a translator from the Persian language to Russian. She is best known for her multi-volume translation of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi.