A common Arab surname, Bensaïd can refer to:

Jean Daniel Bensaïd, an Algerian-born French journalist also known as Daniel Bensaïd, but who is unrelated to him.

Boualem Bensaïd, an Algerian member of the GIA convicted of participating in a series of Islamist terror bombings in France in 1995 and now serving a life sentence for his role in them.

Catherine Bensaïd, a French psychiatrist and psychotherapist

Daniel Bensaïd, a French Trotskyist and philosopher born in 1946.