Tamás Bauer (born May 6, 1946) is a Hungarian economist, politician and member of the National Assembly (MP) from June 28, 1994 to May 14, 2002.

His parents were Miklós Bauer (1921–2008), jurist and infamous interrogation officer of the State Protection Authority (ÁVH) and Judit Schönberg, a functionary.

He worked for the Research Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).

He published under the pseudonym of Dénes Csonka for the illegal liberal newspaper Beszélő.

In 1985 he was elected to a member of the National Council of the Patriotic People's Front.

[1] He joined the newly formed Democratic Coalition (DK) led by former prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and became its one of the deputy chairmen on November 6, 2011.