Benzelius is the name of one of Sweden's oldest clerical families which derives its surname from the village of Bensby in Luleå.
The family descended from Henrik Jacobsson and his wife Margaret Jönsdotter. Henrik Jacobsson must have been born in Kalix, and his wife from Luleå. Their son Eric was raised by a rich and childless uncle in Uppsala, and adopted the name Benzelius after the village he was born in.

The family has produced four archbishops, namely Erik Benzelius Younger, Jacob Benzelius, Henrik Benzelius and Carl Jesper Benzelius
The part of the family that had not entered the Church as clergy where knighted with the name Benzelstierna.

Notable Benzelius family members

• Erik Benzelius the Elder
  Erik Benzelius the Elder
  Erik Benzelius was a Swedish theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala.Benzelius was born at the Bentseby farm in the parish of Luleå in northern Sweden, son of the farmer and lay assessor Henrik Jakobsson...
  
  
• Erik Benzelius younger
• Jacob Benzelius
• Henrik Benzelius
  Henrik Benzelius
  Henrik Benzelius was Bishop of Lund from 1744 to 1747, and Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1747 to his death. Benzelius was one of the people sent by Charles XII of Sweden to the Middle East, travelling to Egypt and Syria...
  
  
• Carl Jesper Benzelius
  Carl Jesper Benzelius
  Carl Jesper Benzelius was a theologian, professor, bishop of the Diocese of Strängnäs from 1776 to 1793, and a son to archbishop Erik Benzelius the younger....
  
  
• Jakob Benzelius
  Jakob Benzelius
  Jakob Benzelius was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1744 to his death.Jakob Benzelius studied at Uppsala University, graduated as filosofie magister in 1703 and, after a few years teaching in Uppsala, spent several years traveling and visiting foreign universities...
  
  
• Mathias von Benzelstierna