A rotary electric shaver including a disc-shaped outer cutter 10, which is mounted in the upper part of a shaver main body housing therein a motor and has ring-shaped tracks 18 on the under (inner) surface thereof, and an inner cutter 12A, which has cutter blades 120 that elastically contact the ring-shaped tracks 18 of the outer cutter 10 from below and is rotated by the motor; and in this shaver, the inner cutter 12A has vibration elements 132 that travel in the ring-shaped tracks 18 and have a smaller spring constant, compared to the cutter blade 120, in the direction same as and opposite from the direction in which the cutter blades travel, and the vibration elements 132 vibrate and produce sound when, during shaving, they strike stoppers 134 provided near the vibration elements 132.