Kiyoshi Akita (秋田 清, Akita Kiyoshi, August 29, 1881 – December 3, 1944), was a politician and cabinet minister in the Empire of Japan, serving as a member of the Lower House of the Diet of Japan for ten terms, and twice as a cabinet minister.

Akita was a judge in the Tokushima District Court, but left the legal profession to become a journalist for the Niroku Shipō, a newspaper of which he eventually became president.

He won a seat in the Lower House of the Diet of Japan in the 1912 General Election with the support of the Rikken Dōshikai political party.

He joined the Taisei Yokusankai in 1940, and was appointed as Minister of Colonial Affairs in the 2nd Konoe administration from September 1940 – July 1941.

His son, Daisuke Akita was also a politician, serving in the post-war Diet, and as Minister of Justice (Japan) in the 1970s.