| Kailas Wanchoo | |
| Order: | 10th |
| Office: | Chief Justice of India |
| Term Start: | 12 April 1967 |
| Term End: | 24 February 1968 |
| Appointer: | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Predecessor: | K. Subba Rao |
| Successor: | M. Hidayatullah |
| Office1: | Judge of Supreme Court of India |
| Term Start1: | 11 August 1958 |
| Term End1: | 11 April 1967 |
| Appointer1: | Rajendra Prasad |
| Office2: | Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court |
| Term Start2: | 2 January 1951 |
| Term End2: | 10 August 1958 |
| Appointer2: | Rajendra Prasad |
| Office3: | Judge of Allahabad High Court |
| Term Start3: | 17 February 1947 |
| Term End3: | 1 January 1951 |
| Birth Date: | 1903 2, df=yes |
| Death Date: | 14 August 1988 (aged 85) |
Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 – 14 August 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India.
He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High School, Kanpur, Muir Central College, Allahabad and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service as Joint Magistrate on 1 December 1926 in Uttar Pradesh.
In April 1967, he was sworn in as a Chief Justice of India following the retirement of Koka Subba Rao from the position on announcing his presidential campaign.[1]
Over the course of his Supreme Court tenure, Wanchoo authored 355 judgments and sat on 1,286 benches.[2]