Faisal bin Abdullah Al Saud (Arabic: فيصل بن عبدالله آل سعود, romanized: Fayṣal bin ʿAbdullāh Āl Saʿūd; born 13 May 1950) is a retired Saudi Arabian politician and businessman who served as the Saudi Arabian minister of education from 2009 to 2013 in the administration of King Abdullah, his maternal uncle and father-in-law.

[3] Faisal bin Abdullah worked in the research and industrial development center at the ministry of commerce from 1971 to 1973.

[3] In the years before his 2009 appointment as minister of education, he was deputy chief of General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), a position he had held since 2003.

[7][9] At the time of the appointment, western news media reported that Faisal had earlier been involved in efforts to reduce extremist influences from the Saudi education system;[10] his appointment was thought to reflect the King's intention to reinforce efforts to reduce the influence of extremists in the domain of education.

[18] Concerning the unavailability of physical education courses in public schools for female students in Saudi Arabia, he stated in August 2011 that the ministry was still reviewing the issue.

He supports the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) which was then headed by Sultan bin Salman.

Faisal bin Abdullah is in favor of more parallel efforts by related authorities to assist the SCTA to achieve its mission.

[4] As of 2010 Faisal bin Abdullah was living in Jeddah where he had moved in 1992 when he was appointed to the National Guard in the Western Province.