Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze (born 27 February 1978) is a Georgian football defender, who currently plays for Italian Serie A club Milan and captains the Georgia national team. He was voted Georgian Footballer of the Year in the years 2001–2003 and 2006, in addition to this he is considered to be one of Georgia's most important players.

He started his football career at Umaglesi Liga club Dinamo Tbilisi and made 82 appearances in a five year spell. Next, he moved to the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv and made 71 appearances before he was signed by the Italian Serie A club Milan. To date he has won the Georgian Footballer of the Year award four times and won Serie A, Ukrainian Premier League and Umaglesi Liga titles. With Milan he has won the Champions League on two occasions, the UEFA Super Cup once and the FIFA Club World Cup once. Kaladze has been capped 70 times for the Georgia national team, scoring one goal which was against Latvia. He has yet to qualify for a major international tournament with Georgia in seven qualifying campaigns.

Born in Samtredia, a town in Imereti Province, Kaladze comes from a footballing family as his father played for Lokomotiv Samtredia and was also president of the team for some time. His brother was kidnapped in a high profile case in 2001 and officially declared dead in 2006 resulting in two men being sentenced to prison for a combined total of 30 years. Outside of football he owns a company called Kala Capital and an organisation called Kala Foundation as well as being an ambassador for SOS Children's Villages. He is married and has one child.