Ester Ståhlberg, née Elfving (February 17, 1870 – July 21, 1950) was a Finnish writer and educator and the first First Lady of Finland.

The daughter of Karl Oskar Elfving, mayor, and Jenny Nyman, she was born Ester Elfving[1] in Vaasa, went on to study in Oulu[2] and then continued with post-graduate studies in Helsinki.

[3] After the death of her first husband in 1917, she was named to the child welfare department of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs.

[4] Ståhlberg was married twice: first to Karl Hällström, a pharmacist, who died in 1917.

In 1920, she married the widower Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, during his term as the first President of Finland.