Ateş Gürpınar (born 25 September 1984) is a German politician of The Left who has been serving as member of the Bundestag since 2021 and one of six deputy leaders of his party since 2018.

He studied at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg from 2004 to 2011 and graduated with a magister degree in media science and a master's in ethics of text cultures.

He became politically engaged due to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, as well as the Europe-wide student protests in which he participated in 2009.

[2] In the 2017 German federal election, he stood in Munich North constituency and won 6.0% of the vote.

Along with his counterpart Eva Bulling-Schröter, he was lead candidate for The Left in the 2018 Bavarian state election, but the party failed to win any seats.