diff --git a/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/executors/default_celery.py b/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/executors/default_celery.py
index 75f8cc2bfdf43..20c307a77b04f 100644
--- a/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/executors/default_celery.py
+++ b/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/executors/default_celery.py
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ def _broker_supports_visibility_timeout(url):
     log.debug("Value for celery result_backend not found. Using sql_alchemy_conn with db+ prefix.")
     result_backend = f'db+{conf.get("database", "SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN")}'
 
+extra_celery_config = conf.getjson("celery", "extra_celery_config", fallback={})
+
 DEFAULT_CELERY_CONFIG = {
     "accept_content": ["json"],
     "event_serializer": "json",
@@ -85,6 +87,7 @@ def _broker_supports_visibility_timeout(url):
     ),
     "worker_concurrency": conf.getint("celery", "WORKER_CONCURRENCY", fallback=16),
     "worker_enable_remote_control": conf.getboolean("celery", "worker_enable_remote_control", fallback=True),
+    **(extra_celery_config if isinstance(extra_celery_config, dict) else {}),
 }
 
 
diff --git a/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/provider.yaml b/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/provider.yaml
index 906a76130456f..5a45989804614 100644
--- a/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/provider.yaml
+++ b/providers/src/airflow/providers/celery/provider.yaml
@@ -330,6 +330,17 @@ config:
         type: string
         example: ~
         default: "False"
+      extra_celery_config:
+        description: |
+          Extra celery configs to include in the celery worker.
+          Any of the celery config can be added to this config and it
+          will be applied while starting the celery worker. e.g. {"worker_max_tasks_per_child": 10}
+          See also:
+          https://docs.celeryq.dev/en/stable/userguide/configuration.html#configuration-and-defaults
+        version_added: ~
+        type: string
+        example: ~
+        default: "{{}}"
   celery_broker_transport_options:
     description: |
       This section is for specifying options which can be passed to the
diff --git a/providers/tests/celery/executors/test_celery_executor.py b/providers/tests/celery/executors/test_celery_executor.py
index 7dc918082b62a..7a33e0cfbc17c 100644
--- a/providers/tests/celery/executors/test_celery_executor.py
+++ b/providers/tests/celery/executors/test_celery_executor.py
@@ -399,3 +399,12 @@ def test_celery_task_acks_late_loaded_from_string():
     # reload celery conf to apply the new config
     importlib.reload(default_celery)
     assert default_celery.DEFAULT_CELERY_CONFIG["task_acks_late"] is False
+
+
+@conf_vars({("celery", "extra_celery_config"): '{"worker_max_tasks_per_child": 10}'})
+def test_celery_extra_celery_config_loaded_from_string():
+    import importlib
+
+    # reload celery conf to apply the new config
+    importlib.reload(default_celery)
+    assert default_celery.DEFAULT_CELERY_CONFIG["worker_max_tasks_per_child"] == 10