The Laz or Lazi (Laz: ლაზეფე (pl.), ლაზი (sing.); Georgian:ლაზები/ჭანები (pl.); ლაზი/ჭანი (sing.); Turkish:Lazlar, Laz;) are a Kartvelian-speaking ethnic group native to the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia.

Estimates of the total population of Laz people today ranges drastically, with numbers as low as 45,000 to as high as 1.6 million people, with the majority living in northeast Turkey. The Laz speak the Laz language, a member of the Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language family along with Georgian, Svan and Mingrelian. The Laz language is classified as endangered by UNESCO, with an estimated 130,000 to 150,000 speakers in 2001.