Magdalen King-Hall (22 July 1904 – 1 January 1971) was an English novelist, journalist and children's fiction writer.
Her novel Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton was made into a film twice: The Wicked Lady (1945), starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason, and the 1983 remake, also called The Wicked Lady, starring Faye Dunaway and Alan Bates.
Magdalen King-Hall was the daughter of Admiral Sir George Fowler King-Hall and sister of Stephen King-Hall.
Her sister Olga Elizabeth Louisa King-Hall published the near-future speculative fiction novel Fly Envious Time (1944) under the name Lou King-Hall.
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