Uwe Bahnsen (1930 in Hamburg) is a German car designer. After an apprenticeship as a window dresser Bahnsen studied at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg. From 1958 to 1986 he was with Ford Europe held various positions, most recently as vice president for design. During this time, he created such icons of today's automotive designs counting models like the Taunus 17m or the Capri. Bahnsen is also a motor sport enthusiast, and in the 1960s he organised a Ford Works Team.
In 1986 Bahnsen became training director at the Art Center College of Design in La Tour de Peilz (Switzerland), which he ran between 1990 and 1995. In 1992 he was elected to the Executive Board of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and was its president from 1995 to 1997. Uwe Bahnsen is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers and International Member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
Under the direction of Uwe Bahnsen was the design of the following vehicles: