Tursunbai Bakir Uulu (born March 17, 1958, in Kara-Suu, Osh Oblast) is a Kyrgyz politician, former ombudsman and presidential candidate.
A teacher by training, a historian, and a doctor of philosophy he is married with four children.
He graduated at the Kyrgyz National University's history faculty (1982).
Regularly vocal in his opposition to Askar Akayev, the Kyrgyz President ousted on 24 March 2005 during the Tulip Revolution, Bakir Uulu called for the abolishment of the death penalty, the release of Felix Kulov from prison, an end to the ban on the Islamic movement Hizb ut Tahrir, and called the 2005 legislative election the least free and fair the nation had ever seen.
Bakir Uulu ran in July 2005 presidential elections and lost to former president Kurmanbek Bakiev.