Austin Murphy Allran (born December 13, 1951) is a former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's forty-second Senate district, including constituents in Iredell and Catawba counties.

[1] An attorney from Hickory, North Carolina, Allran served for twelve terms in the state Senate.

He graduated from Hickory High School in 1970 and then earned degrees in English and history from Duke University.

Allran attended law school at Southern Methodist University, earning his degree in 1978.

In March 2005, Allran called for the game of Solitaire to be erased from the Microsoft Windows computers of state employees in his North Carolina constituency, claiming that such a move would save millions of dollars and improve productivity due to the working time lost while state employees play the game.