Lykens is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Notable People Phillip Stroup, member of United States Air Force.

In Iraq he was instrumental on communications for air strikes that killed 1200 ISIS members.

[4] The borough was named after the first European settler and pioneer Andrew Lycan who came from Berks, Pennsylvania in 1731.

Lykens is the grandson of Swedish immigrant Peter Nilsson Lyckan.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km2), all land.