# 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, born 1960), Japanese manga artist
* Hirofumi Araki (荒木 宏文, born 1984), Japanese actor
* Kae Araki (荒木 香恵, born 1963), Japanese voice actress
* Kanao Araki, Japanese manga artist
* Sayaka Araki (荒木 さやか, born 1984), Japanese fashion model and hostess
* Shingo Araki (荒木 伸吾, 1939–2011), Japanese animation artist and character designer
* Tarō Araki (荒木太郎,, born 1961), Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
* Tetsurō Araki (荒木 哲郎, born 1976), Japanese animation director
* Yuko Araki (新木 優子, born 1993), Japanese actress

### Sportspeople

* Akane Araki (荒木 茜羽, born 1996), Japanese badminton player
* Daigo Araki (荒木 大吾, born 1994), Japanese footballer
* Daisuke Araki (荒木 大輔, born 1964), Japanese baseball pitcher (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
* Daisuke Araki (荒木 大輔, born 2000), Japanese footballer
* Daizou Araki (荒木 大三, born 1955), Japanese modern pentathlete
* Erika Araki (荒木 絵里香, born 1984), Japanese volleyball player
* Fumiya Araki (荒木 郁也, born 1988), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
* Hayato Araki (荒木 隼人, born 1996), Japanese footballer
* Kenta Araki (荒木 健太, born 1995), Japanese water polo player
* Kumi Araki (荒木 久美, born 1965), Japanese long-distance runner
* Masahiro Araki (荒木 雅博, born 1977), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
* Miharu Araki (荒城 三晴, born 1971), Japanese ice hockey player
* Moe Araki (荒木 萌恵, born 1998), Japanese badminton player
* Nana Araki (荒木 菜那, born 2002), Japanese figure skater
* Nobuhiro Araki (荒城 信弘, born 1944), Japanese ice hockey player
* Ryotaro Araki (荒木 遼太郎, born 2002), Japanese footballer
* Sho Araki (荒木 翔, born 1995), Japanese footballer
* Shunta Araki (荒木 駿太, born 1999), Japanese footballer
* Takahiro Araki (荒木 貴裕, born 1987), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
* Toshiaki Araki (荒木 敏明, born 1942), Japanese fencer
* Yugo Araki (荒木 雄豪, 1925–2012), Japanese equestrian

### Other

* Chiharu Araki (荒木 千陽, born 1982), 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, 1932–2022), Japanese mathematical physicist
* Kiyohiro Araki (荒木 清寛, born 1956), Japanese politician with the New Komeito Party
* Araki Mataemon (荒木 又右衛門, 1584–1637), samurai of Japan's early Edo period
* Minol Araki (荒木 實, 1928–2010), Japanese painter and industrial designer
* Araki Murashige (荒木 村重, 1535–1586), retainer of Nobunaga Oda during Japan's Sengoku period
* Nobuyoshi Araki (荒木 経惟, born 1940), Japanese photographer
* Sadao Araki (荒木 貞夫, 1877–1966), Imperial Japanese Army general
* Shoko Araki (荒木 章子), Japanese speech processing engineer
* Takeshi Araki (荒木 武, 1916–1994), Japanese politician, mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991
* Tetsuo Araki (荒木 哲夫) 1937–1984, Japanese print artist
* Tōichirō Araki (荒木 東一郎, 1895–1977), Japanese writer
* Yoshikuni Araki (荒木芳邦, 1921–1997), Japanese landscape architect
* Yukio Araki (荒木 幸雄, 1928-1945), youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II

## Persian

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