Daniel Bensaïd (born 1946 in Toulouse) is philosopher and a leader of the Trotskyist movement in France. He became a leading figure in the student revolt of 1968, while studying at the Université de Nanterre .

Bensaïd is now a leading theorist of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII . He is known for writing studies of Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx, and a recent analysis of French postmodernism.