diff --git a/spanner/Cargo.toml b/spanner/Cargo.toml
index c3818c19..fe20c617 100644
--- a/spanner/Cargo.toml
+++ b/spanner/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ parking_lot = "0.12"
 base64 = "0.22"
 tokio-util = "0.7"
 bigdecimal = { version="0.4", features=["serde"] }
+uuid = { version = "1", optional = true }
 
 token-source = "1.0"
 google-cloud-longrunning = { package = "gcloud-longrunning", version = "1.3.1", path = "../foundation/longrunning" }
@@ -50,3 +51,4 @@ external-account = ["google-cloud-auth?/external-account"]
 otel-metrics = ["opentelemetry"]
 jwt-aws-lc-rs = ["google-cloud-auth?/jwt-aws-lc-rs"]
 jwt-rust-crypto = ["google-cloud-auth?/jwt-rust-crypto"]
+uuid = ["dep:uuid"]
diff --git a/spanner/src/row.rs b/spanner/src/row.rs
index da5caf40..74b6530a 100644
--- a/spanner/src/row.rs
+++ b/spanner/src/row.rs
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ pub enum Error {
     BigDecimalParseError(String, #[source] ParseBigDecimalError),
     #[error("Failed to parse as Prost Timestamp field={0}")]
     ProstTimestampParseError(String, #[source] ::prost_types::TimestampError),
+    #[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
+    #[error("Failed to parse as Uuid field={0}")]
+    UuidParseError(String, #[source] ::uuid::Error),
 }
 
 impl Row {
@@ -72,6 +75,14 @@ impl Row {
     {
         self.column(index(&self.index, column_name)?)
     }
+
+    pub fn field(&self, column_index: usize) -> Option<&Field> {
+        self.fields.get(column_index)
+    }
+
+    pub fn field_by_name(&self, column_name: &str) -> Option<&Field> {
+        self.index.get(column_name).and_then(|&idx| self.fields.get(idx))
+    }
 }
 
 //don't use TryFrom trait to avoid the conflict
@@ -231,6 +242,33 @@ impl TryFromValue for BigDecimal {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
+impl TryFromValue for ::uuid::Uuid {
+    fn try_from(item: &Value, field: &Field) -> Result<Self, Error> {
+        use google_cloud_googleapis::spanner::v1::TypeCode;
+
+        let type_code = field
+            .r#type
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(|t| t.code)
+            .unwrap_or(TypeCode::Unspecified as i32);
+
+        if type_code != TypeCode::Uuid as i32 {
+            return Err(Error::KindMismatch(
+                field.name.to_string(),
+                format!("expected UUID type, got TypeCode={}", type_code),
+            ));
+        }
+
+        match as_ref(item, field)? {
+            Kind::StringValue(s) => {
+                ::uuid::Uuid::parse_str(s).map_err(|e| Error::UuidParseError(field.name.to_string(), e))
+            }
+            v => kind_to_error(v, field),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 impl TryFromValue for String {
     fn try_from(item: &Value, field: &Field) -> Result<Self, Error> {
         match as_ref(item, field)? {
@@ -491,4 +529,28 @@ mod tests {
         );
         assert_eq!(format!("{}", struct_data[1].prost_timestamp), "2027-02-19T07:23:59Z");
     }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
+    #[test]
+    fn test_uuid_try_from() {
+        use crate::row::TryFromValue;
+        use crate::statement::ToKind;
+        use google_cloud_googleapis::spanner::v1::struct_type::Field;
+        use prost_types::Value;
+
+        let uuid_str = "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000";
+        let expected_uuid = ::uuid::Uuid::parse_str(uuid_str).unwrap();
+
+        let field = Field {
+            name: "uuid_field".to_string(),
+            r#type: Some(::uuid::Uuid::get_type()),
+        };
+
+        let value = Value {
+            kind: Some(uuid_str.to_string().to_kind()),
+        };
+
+        let parsed: ::uuid::Uuid = TryFromValue::try_from(&value, &field).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(parsed, expected_uuid);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/spanner/src/statement.rs b/spanner/src/statement.rs
index a07ee1bb..be36a50d 100644
--- a/spanner/src/statement.rs
+++ b/spanner/src/statement.rs
@@ -207,6 +207,16 @@ impl ToKind for BigDecimal {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
+impl ToKind for ::uuid::Uuid {
+    fn to_kind(&self) -> Kind {
+        self.to_string().to_kind()
+    }
+    fn get_type() -> Type {
+        single_type(TypeCode::Uuid)
+    }
+}
+
 impl ToKind for ::prost_types::Timestamp {
     fn to_kind(&self) -> Kind {
         // The protobuf timestamp type should be formatted in RFC3339
@@ -328,4 +338,18 @@ mod test {
         // Prost's Timestamp type and OffsetDateTime should have the same representation in spanner
         assert_eq!(prost_types::Timestamp::get_type(), OffsetDateTime::get_type());
     }
+
+    #[cfg(feature = "uuid")]
+    #[test]
+    fn uuid_to_kind_works() {
+        use google_cloud_googleapis::spanner::v1::TypeCode;
+
+        let uuid = ::uuid::Uuid::parse_str("550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000").unwrap();
+        let expected = "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000";
+        let kind = uuid.to_kind();
+        assert!(matches!(kind, Kind::StringValue(s) if s == expected));
+
+        let uuid_type = ::uuid::Uuid::get_type();
+        assert_eq!(uuid_type.code, TypeCode::Uuid as i32);
+    }
 }