Christopher John Mullin, known as Chris Mullin, is an UK Labour politician, currently the member of Parliament for the English constituency of Sunderland South. He read Law at the University of Hull.

Before being elected as an MP, he was a journalist working with the well-respected ITV documentary programme World in Action and had campaigned for the release of the Birmingham Six, a notorious miscarriage of justice. He was also editor of the Tribune newspaper (1982-84).