Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (25 March 1688 in Leubnitz – 15 September 1747 in Halle an der Saale) was a German baroque composer and organist.

Bach, though on a somewhat smaller scale, and belongs, together with Gottfried Kirchhoff and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow to the group of composers of the so-called Hallischen Spätbarock.

Ziegler had already caused a stir as a child prodigy at the Dresdener court of August the Strong, as his contemporary Johann Gottfried Walther, a distant cousin of Bach, wrote in his Musicalischem Lexicon that he could sing at the age four, play the keyboard a couple of years later, and as a 10-year-old play the organ at religious services.

In 1710 he became a pupil of Friedrich Zachow (who was also the teacher of Johann Philipp Krieger and none other than George Frideric Händel.

In 1715 Gotthilf also took lessons with Johann Sebastian Bach, especially in the art of choral music.