title: Oken
text: # Oken
  
  Oken is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Lorenz Oken (originally Okenfuß) (1779–1851), German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist
     * 46563 Oken, a main-belt asteroid
     * Oken (crater), a lunar crater
  * Steven Oken (1962–2004), American convicted murderer
  