diff --git a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
index 968d8215ca4d..fa65709b1e4f 100644
--- a/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
+++ b/datafusion/common/src/config.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ use std::collections::{BTreeMap, HashMap};
 use std::fmt::{self, Display};
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
+#[cfg(feature = "parquet")]
+use parquet::file::metadata::KeyValue;
+
 use crate::error::_config_err;
 use crate::parsers::CompressionTypeVariant;
 use crate::{DataFusionError, FileType, Result};
@@ -1368,6 +1371,10 @@ pub struct TableParquetOptions {
     pub global: ParquetOptions,
     /// Column specific options. Default usage is parquet.XX::column.
     pub column_specific_options: HashMap<String, ColumnOptions>,
+    /// Optional, additional metadata to be inserted into the key_value_metadata
+    /// for the written [`FileMetaData`](https://docs.rs/parquet/latest/parquet/file/metadata/struct.FileMetaData.html).
+    #[cfg(feature = "parquet")]
+    pub key_value_metadata: Option<Vec<KeyValue>>,
 }
 
 impl ConfigField for TableParquetOptions {
diff --git a/datafusion/common/src/file_options/parquet_writer.rs b/datafusion/common/src/file_options/parquet_writer.rs
index f651ff932a5a..2f989c3f6c30 100644
--- a/datafusion/common/src/file_options/parquet_writer.rs
+++ b/datafusion/common/src/file_options/parquet_writer.rs
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ impl TryFrom<&TableParquetOptions> for ParquetWriterOptions {
             .set_created_by(created_by.clone())
             .set_column_index_truncate_length(*column_index_truncate_length)
             .set_data_page_row_count_limit(*data_page_row_count_limit)
-            .set_bloom_filter_enabled(*bloom_filter_enabled);
+            .set_bloom_filter_enabled(*bloom_filter_enabled)
+            .set_key_value_metadata(parquet_options.key_value_metadata.clone());
 
         if let Some(encoding) = &encoding {
             builder = builder.set_encoding(parse_encoding_string(encoding)?);
diff --git a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/file_format/parquet.rs b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/file_format/parquet.rs
index bcf4e8a2c8e4..23f8e8e0b5f6 100644
--- a/datafusion/core/src/datasource/file_format/parquet.rs
+++ b/datafusion/core/src/datasource/file_format/parquet.rs
@@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ mod tests {
     };
     use parquet::arrow::arrow_reader::ArrowReaderOptions;
     use parquet::arrow::ParquetRecordBatchStreamBuilder;
-    use parquet::file::metadata::{ParquetColumnIndex, ParquetOffsetIndex};
+    use parquet::file::metadata::{KeyValue, ParquetColumnIndex, ParquetOffsetIndex};
     use parquet::file::page_index::index::Index;
     use tokio::fs::File;
     use tokio::io::AsyncWrite;
@@ -1865,7 +1865,13 @@ mod tests {
         };
         let parquet_sink = Arc::new(ParquetSink::new(
             file_sink_config,
-            TableParquetOptions::default(),
+            TableParquetOptions {
+                key_value_metadata: Some(vec![KeyValue {
+                    key: "my-data".into(),
+                    value: Some("stuff".to_string()),
+                }]),
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
         ));
 
         // create data
@@ -1899,7 +1905,10 @@ mod tests {
         let (
             path,
             FileMetaData {
-                num_rows, schema, ..
+                num_rows,
+                schema,
+                key_value_metadata,
+                ..
             },
         ) = written.take(1).next().unwrap();
         let path_parts = path.parts().collect::<Vec<_>>();
@@ -1915,6 +1924,13 @@ mod tests {
             "output file metadata should contain col b"
         );
 
+        let key_value_metadata = key_value_metadata.unwrap();
+        let my_metadata = key_value_metadata
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|kv| kv.key == "my-data")
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+        assert_eq!(my_metadata.len(), 1);
+
         Ok(())
     }
 
diff --git a/datafusion/proto/src/generated/pbjson.rs b/datafusion/proto/src/generated/pbjson.rs
index d900d0031df3..80ad17270c30 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/src/generated/pbjson.rs
+++ b/datafusion/proto/src/generated/pbjson.rs
@@ -26318,6 +26318,7 @@ impl<'de> serde::Deserialize<'de> for TableParquetOptions {
                 Ok(TableParquetOptions {
                     global: global__,
                     column_specific_options: column_specific_options__.unwrap_or_default(),
+                    key_value_metadata: None,
                 })
             }
         }
diff --git a/datafusion/proto/src/physical_plan/from_proto.rs b/datafusion/proto/src/physical_plan/from_proto.rs
index aaca4dc48236..5d779181976e 100644
--- a/datafusion/proto/src/physical_plan/from_proto.rs
+++ b/datafusion/proto/src/physical_plan/from_proto.rs
@@ -974,6 +974,7 @@ impl TryFrom<&protobuf::TableParquetOptions> for TableParquetOptions {
                 .unwrap()
                 .unwrap(),
             column_specific_options,
+            key_value_metadata: None,
         })
     }
 }