Kristian Bakken (11 June 1888 – 20 December 1954) was a Norwegian labourer and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was a plate worker by vocation, and worked in Hamar. He was a leading figure in the local Union of Iron and Metalworkers from 1907 until his death, was the second chairman of Hamar faglige samorg and was also a co-founder of the in the city in 1911. He was elected to Hamar city council in 1917, and as the socialists gradually gained ground in the city council he became deputy mayor in 1932–1933. He was promoted to mayor of Hamar in 1935, when his predecessor Sigurd Pedersen was hired as burgomaster and as such was no longer eligible. He won re-election in the 1937 Norwegian local elections.