Anniken Paulsen (born 1955) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and pianist. She studied piano with Reimar Riefling and at the Østlandets Musikkonservatorium (today the Norwegian Academy of Music), specializing as a soloist. Her debut as a pianist came in 1980 with a full-night concert featuring works by Franz Liszt, Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Schumann, Anton Webern, and Maurice Ravel. Later, Paulsen studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music.