Fanny Susan Copeland OBE (27 September 1872 – 28 July 1970) was an Irish translator, mountaineer, journalist and linguist who lived much of her life in Slovenia.

[2][4][3][5] By the 1910s she already spoke German, Italian, French, Danish, Norwegian, Latin, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, and was capable of translating Bulgarian and Russian.

Copeland then began to work in the English department at the Faculty of Arts, at the University of The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Ljubljana.

She published articles in Time and Tide, Graphic, The Observer, Discovery, European Commercial, London Mercury, The Near East and India, The Scotsman and Alpine Journal amongst others.

[2][6] With the exception of the period of the Second World War and its aftermath, Copeland remained in Slovenia for the rest of her life, living at Hotel Slon in Ljubljana.