Auguste Pierre Joseph t'Kint de Roodenbeke (1816 – 1878) was a Belgian diplomat who initiated his country's treaty relations with several countries in Central America and the Far East. T'Kint was born in Brussels on 12 December 1816, to a family which claimed descent from the t'Kint de Roodenbekes, one of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels. His civil service career began in 1840 in the commercial section of the ministry of the interior. In 1841 he was assigned to the project to establish a Belgian colony at Santo Tomás de Castilla in Guatemala. He was responsible for liaising between the Compagnie belge de Colonisation and the Guatemalan government. When the project was abandoned in 1855, he was appointed consul general to Guatemala and Belgian plenipotentiary to all the republics of Centr