Benjamín Máximo Laguna y Villanueva (December 2, 1822 - January 3, 1902) was a Spanish botanist and entomologist.

[2] Máximo Laguna was born in Santa Cruz de Mudela, in the province of Ciudad Real.

He received a grant to continue his studies in the Kingdom of Saxony, where he enrolled at the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry at Tharandt, near Dresden.

The International Plant Names Index lists his botanical interests as Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes.

He described a tree, Quercus jordanae Laguna,[3] which had been collected in Luzon by one of his forestry service colleagues.