Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (Somali: Sheekh Mukhtaar Maxamed Xuseen, Arabic: الشيخ محمد حسين مختار‎; 1912 – 12 June 2012) was the Speaker of the Parliament of Somalia, and briefly an Acting President of Somalia in 1969.

[2] Hussein was born into a Hadame family (part of the larger Rahaweyn clan), in the central town of Xuddur in the Bakool region.

[3] In 1946, Hussein joined the burgeoning, nationalist party of the Somali Youth Club (which later changed its name to the Somali Youth League).

[3] He served the SYL's head office in what was then known as Upper Jubba, which included several current regions of Southwestern Somalia.

[4] He was accorded a state funeral by the government in Mogadishu, Somalia, and was buried there on June 15, 2012.