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Ziggy Stardust is een nummer van de Britse muzikant David Bowie, uitgebracht in 1972 op zijn album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Het nummer vertelt het verhaal van Ziggy Stardust, frontman en gitarist van de fictieve band The Spiders from Mars. De naam "Stardust" werd geïnspireerd door Norman Carl Odam, de Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Het lied staat op nummer 277 in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time van het magazine Rolling Stone.

De originele demo-opname van het nummer, gemaakt in februari 1971, werd uitgebracht als bonustrack op de heruitgave van het album Ziggy Stardust uit 1990.

Het nummer werd in 1972 uitgebracht als B-kant van de single "The Jean Genie". In 1994 werd een liveversie van het nummer uitgebracht op single, wat verscheen op de bootleg Santa Monica '72, een album dat was opgenomen op 20 oktober 1972 in het Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, Californië. Deze single bereikte de 76e plaats in Engeland. Daarnaast werd het nummer in oktober 1982 uitgebracht op single door de Britse gothicband Bauhaus, wat een aanzienlijk betere vijftiende plaats opleverde. Ook Def Leppard nam het nummer op en bracht deze uit op de B-kant van de single "Slang" uit 1996.

"Ziggy Stardust" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie from his 1972 album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, he recorded it at Trident Studios in London in November 1971 with his backing band the Spiders from Mars—comprising Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey. Lyrically, the song is about Ziggy Stardust, a bisexual alien rock star who acts as a messenger for extraterrestrial beings. The character was influenced by English singer Vince Taylor, as well as the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Kansai Yamamoto. Although Ziggy is introduced earlier on the album, this song is its centrepiece, presenting the rise and fall of the star in a very human-like manner. Musically, it is a glam rock song, like its parent album, and is based around a Ronson guitar riff.

Since its release, "Ziggy Stardust" has received widespread acclaim from music critics, with the majority praising its story, guitar riff and the band's performance. The song has since been included on lists of Bowie's greatest songs, and by some as one of the greatest songs of all time. Rolling Stone ranked it number 282 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010. The track is also one of four of Bowie's songs included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Bowie performed the song frequently on the Ziggy Stardust and 1978 Stage tours, and again during his tours in the 2000s.

The song was covered by the English gothic rock band Bauhaus in 1982; their version peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart. While Bowie's original recording was never released as a single, a live version from 1972 was released as a single in France in 1994 to promote the bootleg album Santa Monica '72. The song has since appeared on multiple compilation albums and has been remastered several times, including in 2012 for its 40th anniversary; this remaster was included in the box set Five Years (1969–1973) in 2015.