Arad (surname)

Arad (אָרַד) is a surname from the Hebrew word for bronze. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Atar Arad (born 1945), Israeli-American violist; older brother to Ron
 * Avi Arad (born 1948), Israeli-American businessperson; current CEO of Marvel Studios
 * Boaz Arad (1956–2018), Israeli visual artist
 * Dori Arad (born 1982), Israeli footballer
 * Maya Arad (born 1971), American-based Israeli writer
 * Michael Arad (born 1969), Israeli-American architect
 * Moshe Arad (1934–2019), Romanian-Israeli diplomat
 * Naama Arad (born 1985), Israeli sculptor and installation artist
 * Nava Arad (1938–2022), Israeli politician
 * Ofri Arad (born 1998), Israeli footballer
 * Ron Arad, multiple people
 * Ron Arad (industrial designer) (born 1951), Israeli industrial designer, architect, and artist; younger brother to Atar
 * Ron Arad (pilot) (born 1958), Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer; classified as missing in action since 1986
 * Roy Arad (born 1977), Israeli journalist, poet and artist
 * Shira Arad (born 1972), Israeli film editor and musical supervisor
 * Uzi Arad (born 1947), Israeli strategist and scholar
 * Wedem Arad (died 1314), Emperor of the Ethiopian Empire and a member of the Solomonic dynasty
 * Yael Arad (born 1967), Israeli judoka and first Israeli to win an Olympic medal
 * Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021), born as Iccak Rudnicki), Lithuanian-Israeli historian of the Holocaust
 * Zvi Arad (1942-2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, president of Netanya Academic College