Araki (surname) explained
Araki is a surname in various cultures.
Japanese
Notable people with the Japanese surname Araki (Japanese: 荒木 or Japanese: 新木) include:
Entertainers
- Gregg Araki (born 1959), American movie director
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese actor
- , Japanese voice actress
- Kanao Araki, Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese fashion model and hostess
- , Japanese animation artist and character designer
- , Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
- , Japanese animation director
- , Japanese actress
Sportspeople
- , Japanese badminton player
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese baseball pitcher (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese modern pentathlete
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese water polo player
- , Japanese long-distance runner
- , Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese badminton player
- , Japanese figure skater
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese footballer
- , Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
- , Japanese fencer
- , Japanese equestrian
Other
- , Japanese politician with the Tomin First no Kai party
- Eikichi Araki (1891–1959), Japanese businessman
- , Japanese astronomer
- , Japanese mathematical physicist
- , Japanese politician with the New Komeito Party
- , samurai of Japan's early Edo period
- , Japanese painter and industrial designer
- , retainer of Nobunaga Oda during Japan's Sengoku period
- , Japanese photographer
- , Imperial Japanese Army general
- , Japanese speech processing engineer
- , Japanese politician, mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991
- , Japanese print artist
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese landscape architect
- , youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
Persian
Notable people with the Persian surname Araki (fa|اراکی) include:
