To enable a blade block to be easily removed by one hand without holding an electric shaver main body, as when the shaver is cleaned.

This rotary electric shaver comprises an electric shaver main body 1, a removable ring 2 freely removably attached to the upper end of the electric shaver main body 1, and a blade block 3 freely removably attached to the removable ring 2. The blade block 3 comprises an outer blade 6, which consists of an outer blade 5 attached to a cylinder 4, and a rotary inner blade 7 enclosed inside the outer blade 6. The removable ring 2 is provided with an attaching button 9 having a locking part 8 by which it is freely removably locked to the main body 1. The cylinder 4 of the blade block 3 is freely removably screwed to the removable ring 2.