Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900, Montgomery, Alabama – March 10, 1948, Asheville, North Carolina) was an American novelist, dancer, and celebrity, and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. She became an icon of the 1920s, being dubbed by her husband as “America’s first flapper.” After the success of her husband’s first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities.

Having been a symbol of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation, Zelda Fitzgerald found a resurgence after her death, thanks to the 1970 publication of the best-selling book Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford. Milford's biography portrayed her as a feminist icon and a victim of a controlling husband.

In 1992, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. Her name inspired the title of the famous video game series The Legend of Zelda, as well as the name of its famous princess.