diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/meinheld/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/meinheld/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..526cd3ed4eec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/meinheld/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, greenlet }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "meinheld";
+  version = "0.6.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0rg5878njn66cc0x2fwrakikz24946r0cxxl6j8vvz5phd4zygi9";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ greenlet ];
+
+  # No tests
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "High performance asynchronous Python WSGI Web Server";
+    homepage = http://meinheld.org/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 9f59fb9fdfda..a0774473c061 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10241,6 +10241,8 @@ in {
 
   meliae = callPackage ../development/python-modules/meliae {};
 
+  meinheld = callPackage ../development/python-modules/meinheld { };
+
   memcached = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "memcached-1.51";