Reşit Süreyya Gürsey (1889–1962) was a Turkish intellectual who was a medical doctor, a radiology expert, a physicist and a poet.

He was born to Zekiye in Bor of Niğde Province during the Ottoman Empire era.

Following a brief service in Turhal and Tokat, he was appointed as the physics teacher in Kuleli Military High School in Istanbul.

After his early retirement in 1935, he traveled to Germany and Austria for advanced physics career where Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger were his teachers.

In an interview on 30 March 1946, Reşit Süreyya announced that he gave up medicine and his main interests were mathematics, physics and literature.