Abdelmalek Sayad (Born November 24, 1933 in Beni Djellil, Algeria - died March 13, 1998 in Paris, France), was a sociologist, first as an assistant to Pierre Bourdieu, then as a research director at the French CNRS and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.
An expert of the North-African community in France, his friends called him an "Algerian Socrates".
He was central to the introduction of the study of migration issues in French social sciences.