diff --git a/arrow-schema/src/datatype.rs b/arrow-schema/src/datatype.rs
index edd1dd09620e..4f8c8a18bd17 100644
--- a/arrow-schema/src/datatype.rs
+++ b/arrow-schema/src/datatype.rs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 use std::fmt;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
-use crate::{FieldRef, Fields, UnionFields};
+use crate::{Field, FieldRef, Fields, UnionFields};
 
 /// The set of datatypes that are supported by this implementation of Apache Arrow.
 ///
@@ -576,6 +576,11 @@ impl DataType {
             _ => self == other,
         }
     }
+
+    /// Create a List DataType default name is "item"
+    pub fn new_list(data_type: DataType, nullable: bool) -> Self {
+        DataType::List(Arc::new(Field::new("item", data_type, nullable)))
+    }
 }
 
 /// The maximum precision for [DataType::Decimal128] values