Janarbek Kubanychovich Akayev (born 13 December 1986) is a Kyrgyz politician, and current member of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan.

Akayev was born on 13 December 1986 in the village of Kabylan-Kul in Osh Oblast in the Kirgiz SSR, now Kyrgyzstan.

In 2009 he graduated from Osh State University with a degree in journalism.

[2] For six months between February and August 2015, he was Almazbek Atambayev's press secretary.

[1][3] Akayev was elected as deputy for the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan in the 2015 parliamentary election,[1] until he was expelled from the party in March 2017.