Said Akl[a] (Arabic: سعيد عقل, romanized: Saʿīd ʿAql; 4 July 1911 – 28 November 2014) was a Lebanese poet, linguist, philosopher, writer, playwright and language reformer.

[7] Akl was born in 1911 (although some sources say 1912) to a Maronite family in the city of Zahlé, then under the administration of the Beirut Vilayet in the Ottoman Lebanon.

[10] Akl adopted a powerful doctrine of the authentic millennial character of Lebanon resonating with an exalted sense of Lebanese dignity.

His admiration to the Lebanese history and culture was marked by strong enmity towards an Arab identity of Lebanon.

"[12] For Akl Lebanon was the cradle of culture and the inheritor of the Oriental civilization, well before the arrival of the Arabs on the historical stage.

Akl has numerous writings ranging from theatrical plays, epics, poetry and song lyrics.

Said Akl wrote as a journalist in a number of publications, notably the Lebanese Al-Jarida newspaper and the weekly Al-Sayyad magazine.