Mutaib bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: متعب بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎‎, Mutʿib bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Suʿūd) (born 1931) is a senior member of the Saudi royal family.

Prince Mutaib was born in Riyadh in 1931, or 1928. He is the seventeenth son of King Abdulaziz. He is the full brother of Prince Mansour (1921 – 1951),Prince Mishaal and Princess Qumash who died on 26 September 2011. Their mother Shahida (died 1938), who reportedly was one of the King Abdulaziz's favorite wives.

Mutaib bin Abdulaziz received primary and secondary education in Riyadh and Madinah. He then went to California for university education.

Mutaib bin Abdulaziz served as deputy minister of defense from 1951 to 1956 when his full brother Mishaal bin Abdulaziz was the minister. Prince Muatib served as governor of Makkah province from 1958 to 1961. He and his older brother Mishaal were ousted from the office by King Saud, but they were given official power in 1963 by Crown Prince Faisal, who entrusted them the deputy governorship and key governorship, respectively. Interestingly, both resigned from their posts in 1971 for reasons that are not entirely clear.

Then, Mutaib bin Abdulaziz joined the Saudi cabinet at the end of 1975 and served as minister of public works and housing until 1980. He is the first minister of public works and housing since it was first founded in this year. His appointment and Prince Majid's appointment as minister of municipal and rural affairs by King Khalid were a move to reduce the power of Sudairi Seven in the cabinet.

Later, Prince Mutaib served as minister of municipal and rural affairs from 1980 to 2009. He resigned from office and his son Prince Mansour succeeded him in the aforementioned post in November 2009.

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