Recep Akdağ (born 8 May 1960) is a Turkish physician and politician who is a member of the Justice and Development Party.

In 1990, Akdağ became Child Health and Diseases Specialist in the Medical Faculty of the Atatürk University.

In 1992, he became an assistant professor in the Child Health and Diseases Main Branch of the Medical Faculty of Atatürk University.

He completed the "Gene Therapy" course successfully held at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in 1998.

Recep Akdağ worked as a lecturer in pediatrics and deputy chief physician of Atatürk University's Research Hospital before being elected to parliament representing Erzurum on 3 November 2002.