Cachalia is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Amina Cachalia (1930–2013), South African activist, politician and wife of Yusuf Azhar Cachalia (born 1956), judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and former anti-apartheid activist Firoz Cachalia (born 1958), South African lawyer and politician and former anti-apartheid activist Ghaleb Cachalia (born 1956), South African politician and son of Yusuf Ismail Ahmed "Moulvi" Cachalia (1908–2003), South African political activist and brother of Yusuf Ismail Mahomed Cachalia, (born 1929) South African politician and father of Azhar and Firoz Yusuf Cachalia, (1915–1995) South African anti-apartheid activist.

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