Benedict Sandin (18 October 1918 – 7 August 1982) was a Malaysian ethnologist and historian, who was Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching, Sarawak from ...
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December 1966 to March 1974. He also served as Government Ethnologist to the Government of Sarawak. He wrote many ethnographic articles in the Sarawak Museum Journal and a book entitled "The Sea Dayaks of Borneo: Before White Rajah Rule".
Sandin was an Iban, and was born in Kerangan Pinggai, a longhouse on the Paku river in the Saribas basin of the Betong division of Sarawak.
