Tursunoy Makhmudovna Akhunova (Russian: Турсуной Махмудовна Ахунова, Uzbek: Tursunoy Oxunova; 20 May 1937 — 21 September 1983) was one of the first Uzbek women cotton harvester drivers as well as recipient of the title Hero of Socialist Labor in 1959 and 1978 for high cotton yields.

A member of the Communist Party since 1962 and a prominent initiator for mechanization of the cotton harvest, she became a prominent figure in Uzbekistani politics, serving in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 6th-8th convocations from 1962 to 1974 and well as the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.

[1] In 1954 Akhunova became driver of a cotton harvester on the collective farm named after S. M. Kirov in Chinaz district, Tashkent oblast.

For her high productivity in cotton harvesting she was initially awarded the Order of Lenin on 14 December 1959, but soon on 25 December 1959 the decree was cancelled and replaced by an awarding of the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin.

She was then promoted to the position of brigade foreman at the collective farm, where she initiated mechanization of all other parts of cotton production.