Doris Debenjak (née Krisch)[1][2] (5 August 1936 – 21 September 2013)[3] was a Slovene and Gottschee German linguist and translator.

[4] She received her bachelor's degree in German and English in 1959 at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts.

In this capacity, she served as a deputy in the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, being named in the committee investigating circumstances surrounding the arrest and trial of Janez Janša, Ivan Borštner, David Tasić and Franci Zavrl.

[5] She was the chief author of the largest Slovene–German and German–Slovene dictionaries, which she published together with her husband and her son Primož.

[6][7] Doris Debenjak was a member of the Society of Native Gottschee Settlers (Slovene: Društvo Kočevarjev staroselcev, German: Gottscheer Altsiedler Verein), which was founded in 1992 in Kočevske Poljane.