Araki (surname)

Araki is a surname in various cultures.

Japanese
Notable people with the Japanese surname Araki (荒木 or 新木) include:

Entertainers

 * Gregg Araki (born 1959), American movie director
 * Hirohiko Araki (荒木 飛呂彦), Japanese manga artist
 * Hirofumi Araki (荒木 宏文), Japanese actor
 * Kae Araki (荒木 香恵), Japanese voice actress
 * Kanao Araki, Japanese manga artist
 * Sayaka Araki (荒木 さやか), Japanese fashion model and hostess
 * Shingo Araki (荒木 伸吾), Japanese animation artist and character designer
 * Tarō Araki (荒木太郎,), Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
 * Tetsurō Araki (荒木 哲郎), Japanese animation director
 * Yuko Araki (新木 優子), Japanese actress

Sportspeople

 * Akane Araki (荒木 茜羽), Japanese badminton player
 * Daigo Araki (荒木 大吾), Japanese footballer
 * Daisuke Araki (荒木 大輔), Japanese baseball pitcher (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
 * Daisuke Araki (荒木 大輔), Japanese footballer
 * Daizou Araki (荒木 大三), Japanese modern pentathlete
 * Erika Araki (荒木 絵里香), Japanese volleyball player
 * Fumiya Araki (荒木 郁也), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
 * Hayato Araki (荒木 隼人), Japanese footballer
 * Kenta Araki (荒木 健太), Japanese water polo player
 * Kumi Araki (荒木 久美), Japanese long-distance runner
 * Masahiro Araki (荒木 雅博), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
 * Miharu Araki (荒城 三晴), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Moe Araki (荒木 萌恵), Japanese badminton player
 * Nana Araki (荒木 菜那), Japanese figure skater
 * Nobuhiro Araki (荒城 信弘), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Ryotaro Araki (荒木 遼太郎), Japanese footballer
 * Sho Araki (荒木 翔), Japanese footballer
 * Shunta Araki (荒木 駿太), Japanese footballer
 * Shuta Araki (荒木 秀太), Japanese footballer
 * Takahiro Araki (荒木 貴裕), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
 * Toshiaki Araki (荒木 敏明), Japanese fencer
 * Yugo Araki (荒木 雄豪), Japanese equestrian

Other

 * Chiharu Araki (荒木 千陽), Japanese politician with the Tomin First no Kai party
 * Eikichi Araki (1891–1959), Japanese businessman
 * Hiroshi Araki (荒木 博志), Japanese astronomer
 * Huzihiro Araki (荒木 不二洋), Japanese mathematical physicist
 * Kiyohiro Araki (荒木 清寛), Japanese politician with the New Komeito Party
 * Araki Mataemon (荒木 又右衛門), samurai of Japan's early Edo period
 * Minol Araki (荒木 實), Japanese painter and industrial designer
 * Araki Murashige (荒木 村重), retainer of Nobunaga Oda during Japan's Sengoku period
 * Nobuyoshi Araki (荒木 経惟), Japanese photographer
 * Sadao Araki (荒木 貞夫), Imperial Japanese Army general
 * Shoko Araki (荒木 章子), Japanese speech processing engineer
 * Takeshi Araki (荒木 武), Japanese politician, mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991
 * Tetsuo Araki (荒木 哲夫), Japanese print artist
 * Tōichirō Araki (荒木 東一郎), Japanese writer
 * Yoshikuni Araki (荒木芳邦), Japanese landscape architect
 * Yukio Araki (荒木 幸雄), youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II

Persian
Notable people with the Persian surname Araki include:
 * Mohammad Ali Araki (1894–1994), Iranian religious scholar
 * Mohsen Araki (born 1956), Iranian religious scholar