Francisca Aguirre Benito (27 October 1930 – 13 April 2019) was a Spanish poet and author. Her first poetry collection, "Ithaca" (1972), won her the Leopoldo Panero Poetry Award. In 2011, she won the National Poetry Prize for her poetry piece "Historia de una anatomía". Aguirre also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in November 2018.