diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1202a5e5eb1..42cfe3e60cb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 - Add consumer offset reset policy option to Kafka scaler ([#925](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/925))
 - Add option to restore to original replica count after ScaledObject's deletion ([#219](https://github.com/kedacore/keda-docs/pull/219))
 - Add Prometheus metrics for KEDA Metrics API Server ([#823](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/823) | [docs](https://keda.sh/docs/2.0/operate/#prometheus-exporter-metrics))
-
+- add support for multiple redis list types in redis list scaler ([#1006](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1006)) | [docs](https://keda.sh/docs/2.0/scalers/redis-lists/))
 ### Improvements
 
 - HPA: move from autoscaling v2beta1 to v2beta2 ([#721](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/721))
diff --git a/pkg/scalers/redis_scaler.go b/pkg/scalers/redis_scaler.go
index 0ac0087a712..04ba277be71 100644
--- a/pkg/scalers/redis_scaler.go
+++ b/pkg/scalers/redis_scaler.go
@@ -206,9 +206,30 @@ func getRedisListLength(ctx context.Context, address string, password string, li
 	}
 
 	client := redis.NewClient(options)
+	var listType *redis.StatusCmd
 
-	cmd := client.LLen(listName)
+	listType = client.Type(listName)
+	if listType.Err() != nil {
+		return -1, listType.Err()
+	}
+
+	var cmd *redis.IntCmd
+	switch listType.Val() {
+	case "list":
+		cmd = client.LLen(listName)
+	case "set":
+		cmd = client.SCard(listName)
+	case "hash":
+		cmd = client.HLen(listName)
+	case "zset":
+		cmd = client.ZCard(listName)
+	default:
+		cmd = nil
+	}
 
+	if cmd == nil {
+		return -1, fmt.Errorf("list must be of type:list,set,hash,zset but was %s", listType.Val())
+	}
 	if cmd.Err() != nil {
 		return -1, cmd.Err()
 	}