Bernard "Ben" Staartjes (9 December 1928, Amsterdam – 17 March 2014, Kapellen) [1] was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Kiel, Germany.

With crew Cees Kurpershoek he took the 5th place in the Tempest.

Several countries did boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, others like France did not go since they found the competition devaluated.

As result only half of the expected fleet was present during the Olympic regattas.

It was the effort of Staartjes and Geert Bakker that the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team went to Tallinn.