Mike Tipping is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Maine State Senate, representing District 8 since December 2022. He grew up in Orono, Maine, attended Orono High School and Dalhousie University, and worked as a progressive activist on statewide referendum campaigns and on an initiative to clean mercury pollution from the Penobscot River. He announced his candidacy for the Maine Senate in September 2021 and won election to his first term in November 2022.