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
• Shuta Araki (荒木 秀太, 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