Rida Said al-Aytouni (Arabic: رضا سعيد الأيتوني ALA-LC: Riḍā Saʻīd al-Aytūnī; 1876 – 28 October 1945), was a Syrian eye surgeon and ophthalmologist and the leading educational reformer of Syria in the early 20th century.

After being awarded with a degree and winning a research fellowship as a "Moniteur" Said’s abilities were regarded as so exceptional that Lapersonne appointed him to be his Principal Assistant in all his eye surgery operations.

After Faisal I took office in Syria, Said met with the King in Aleppo and endeavoured to convince him to reopen all scientific institutes closed because of the war.

The prince met with a delegation of Syrian doctors, who asked him to reopen the Ottoman Medical Institute in the Baramkeh neighborhood, which had been closed due to the circumstances of the war.

On the day he assumed the deanship, Said searched for local doctors to fill the gap in the educational staff, given the travel of all Turkish doctors, so Dr. Mustafa Shawqi (who later became the dean of the Faculty of Medicine) came and appointed him as a teacher of histology and anatomy, and he assigned his friend Dr. Ahmad Munif al-Aidi to teach pediatrics and physiology.

As for Dr. Sami as-Satti (who also became the dean of the faculty after years), he taught internal medicine, and Dr. Ibrahim as-Satti became a specialist in gynecology, and Dr. Jamil al-Khani, a graduate of the Ottoman Medical Institute, taught dermatology, at the time that Professor Abd al-Wahhab worked Channels and Shawkat surgeon on the advancement of the Department of Chemistry.

His great ambition was to strengthen and raise the level of the Syrian University, especially in the field of medicine, to compete with the French and American medical institutes in Beirut.

Syria bid farewell to a scientific and patriotic figure, who earned enormous respect for his great achievements including his efforts to establish the Syrian University.