Gábor Talmácsi (born (1981-05-28)May 28, 1981 in Budapest, Hungary) is a former Hungarian professional motorcycle racer. He was the 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing 125cc World Champion, and he is thus the first Hungarian to win a road racing World Championship. He has a younger brother, Gergő, who is also a motorcycle racer. Due to a leg injury suffered in 2013, Talmácsi has retired from racing professionally. After retiring from racing he set up his own team, Talmácsi Racing which competes in the and races with the Honda CBR600RR.

Gábor competed in boxing, but started racing on minibikes made by his father at the age of 4. After successful seasons in the Hungarian and the European championship, he had his first full season in the World Championship in 2001, with the Racing Service team, on a private Honda bike. That year he scored 34 points, which earned him a place the next year on the Italjet team, but the change wasn't a real success, and during the season he had to switch to the PEV ADAC Sachsen team, where he could ride a Honda again. This change worked a bit better, and in Brazil, he scored his best result that far with a fourth place.

In 2003 he signed for the reigning world champion Exalt Cycle Aprilia team, but did not reach the success he expected, and often felt he was given not the same bike and treatment by the team as his German teammate, Steve Jenkner. Gábor wanted to be a team's leading pilot, so he decided to join the factory Malaguti team for the next season. However, the bike was not competitive at all and his best finish was a 7th place in Portugal. Nevertheless, his results still attracted the attention of teams like Derbi, Gilera, Honda and KTM.

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