Kirsten Auken (25 June 1913 – 21 January 1968) was a Danish politician and one of the leading proponents of sex education in Denmark. She was the mother of politicians Margrete Auken and Svend Auken.
She was born in Copenhagen to a professor of Dermatology Svend Lomholt (1888-1949) and Marie Kirstine Siegumfeldt Beck (1888-1920).
She died in 1968.