| Ba Kaung | |
| Native Name: | ဘကောင်း |
| Birth Date: | 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Shwebo, British Burma |
| Death Date: | [1] |
| Death Place: | Yangon, Myanmar |
| Nationality: | Burmese |
Ba Kaung (my|ဘကောင်း, 1921 - 8 July 2003) was a Burmese activist. He was one of the most prominent student activists of post-independent Burma. In 1957, he established the Progressive Student Force along with fellow activists, a rival union of the government-backed Democratic Student Organization and also served as a leader for the Communist Party of Burma. He went on to join the civil service as a government high school teacher in the 1960s. Ba Kaung was also an editor of the semi-government-run Pyinnya Tansaung magazine in the 1990s.