Hazel Adair (born 1920) was a pioneer of British soap operas. She began her career as an actress in the films My Brother Jonathan (1948) and Lady Precious Stream (1950), before turning her attention to writing scripts for radio and television. Together with Ronald Marriott she wrote the Stranger from Space (1951–53) television series, about an alien from Mars who befriends a boy on Earth, and with Peter Ling scripts for Mrs Dale's Diary.