Bettina Gaus (5 December 1956 – 27 October 2021) was a German journalist.

She attended the Deutsche Journalistenschule in Munich and studied political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München there.

In 1979 she completed an internship at the Hamburger Morgenpost, after which she worked for the Munich Abendzeitung, among others.

From 1989 to 1996, she reported out of Nairobi on Africa topics for the tageszeitung (taz), ARD stations and news agencies.

From 1996 to 1999 Gaus headed the parliamentary office of the taz, since then she had been the political correspondent of the newspaper until 2021.