Alejandro Carrión Aguirre (11 March 1915 – 4 January 1992)[1][2] was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist and journalist.

As a journalist he published many of his articles under the pseudonym "Juan Sin Cielo."

In 1956 he founded, along with Pedro Jorge Vera, the political magazine La Calle.

He received the Maria Moors Cabot prize (1961) from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as the Ecuadorian National Prize Premio Eugenio Espejo (1981) for his body of work.

Alejandro Carrión wrote articles and political commentary in the following periodicals and newspapers: A selection of Alejandro Carrión's poetry was recorded in Quito for the Library of Congress in Washington; a copy of that recording is housed at Harvard University's "House of the Poetry".