| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly |
| Term1: | 1945–1946 |
| Birth Date: | 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Gabrovo, Bulgaria |
Mara Koseva Kinkel (1885–1960)[1] was a Bulgarian sociologist, writer and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1945.
Kinkel was born in Gabrovo in 1885.[2] She worked as a teacher in villages near Gorna Oryahovitsa and became a member of the socialist movement.[2] She went to Switzerland, where she studied literature and sociology in Geneva, completing her studies in 1914.[2] While in Switzerland, she met several Russian revolutionaries, including Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya.[2] She married professor,[1] and the couple lived in Russia from 1917 to 1922.[2] She later wrote books on Lenin and Georgi Dimitrov.
Following World War II, she was a candidate in the 1945 parliamentary elections, the first in which women could stand. She was elected to the National Assembly, becoming one of the first group of women in parliament.[3]