Maqsud (also spelled Maqsood) (مقصود) is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
- Sayed Maqsood Hashemi, Afghan footballer
- Maqsood Hussain, Pakistani field hockey player
- Maqsood Rana, Pakistani cricketer
- Ala Abdel Maqsud Muhammad Salim, citizen of Egypt who was held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo Bay
- Maqsud Shah, Uyghur Khan or Prince of the Kumul Khanate from 1908 to 1930
- Maqsud-Ali Tabrizi, Iranian physician
- Maqsudullah, Bengali Islamic scholar