Igor Vasilevich Bensen (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Бенсен; April 1, 1917 – February 10, 2000) was a Russian-American engineer.

He founded Bensen Aircraft, a US company which produced a successful line of gyrogliders (rotor kites) and autogyros.

He was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and eventually reached the United States in 1937.

[1] He founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association (PRA)[2] in 1962, a non-profit interest group for owners and homebuilders of autogyros and helicopters, based in Mentone, Indiana.

He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Indiana University in 1968.