Araki is a surname in various cultures.
Notable people with the Japanese surname Araki (荒木) include:
Gregg Araki (born 1959), American movie director
Hirohiko Araki (born 1960), Japanese manga artist
Hirofumi Araki (born 1984), Japanese actor
Kae Araki (born 1966), Japanese voice actress
Kanao Araki, Japanese manga artist
Sayaka Araki (born 1984), Japanese fashion model and hostess
Shingo Araki (1939–2011), Japanese animation artist and character designer
Tetsurō Araki (born 1976), Japanese animation director
Tarō Araki (born 1961), Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor
Daisuke Araki (born 1964), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
Daizou Araki (born 1955), Japanese modern pentathlete
Erika Araki (born 1984), Japanese volleyball player
Fumiya Araki (born 1988), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
Kumi Araki (born 1965), Japanese long-distance runner
Masahiro Araki (born 1977), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
Takahiro Araki (born 1987), Japanese baseball player (Nippon Professional Baseball league)
Toshiaki Araki (born 1942), Japanese fencer
Eikichi Araki (1891–1959), Japanese businessman
Hiroshi Araki, Japanese astronomer
Huzihiro Araki (born 1932), Japanese mathematical physicist
Kiyohiro Araki (born 1956), Japanese politician with the New Komeito Party
Araki Mataemon (1584–1637), samurai of Japan's early Edo period
Araki Murashige (1535–1586), retainer of Nobunaga Oda during Japan's Sengoku period
Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940), Japanese photographer
Sadao Araki (1877–1966), Imperial Japanese Army general
Takeshi Araki (1916–1994), Japanese politician, mayor of Hiroshima from 1975 to 1991
Tōichirō Araki (1895–1977), Japanese writer
Yukio Araki (1928-1945), youngest-known Japanese Kamikaze pilot killed in World War II
Notable people with the Iranian surname Araki (Persian: اراکی) include:
Mohammad Ali Araki (1894–1994), Iranian religious scholar
Mohsen Araki (born 1956), Iranian religious scholar