Arad (אָרַד) is a surname from the Hebrew word for bronze. Notable people with the surname include:

• Atar Arad (born 1945), Israeli-American violist; older brother to Ron
• Avi Arad (born 1948), Israeli-American businessperson; current CEO of Marvel Studios
• Boaz Arad (1956–2018), Israeli visual artist
• Dori Arad (born 1982), Israeli footballer
• Maya Arad (born 1971), American-based Israeli writer
• Michael Arad (born 1969), Israeli-American architect
• Moshe Arad (1934–2019), Romanian-Israeli diplomat
• Naama Arad (born 1985), Israeli sculptor and installation artist
• Nava Arad (1938–2022), Israeli politician
• Ofri Arad (born 1998), Israeli footballer
• Ron Arad, multiple people
  • Ron Arad (industrial designer) (born 1951), Israeli industrial designer, architect, and artist; younger brother to Atar
  • Ron Arad (pilot) (born 1958), Israeli Air Force weapon systems officer; classified as missing in action since 1986
• Roy Arad (born 1977), Israeli journalist, poet and artist
• Shira Arad (born 1972), Israeli film editor and musical supervisor
• Uzi Arad (born 1947), Israeli strategist and scholar
• Wedem Arad (died 1314), Emperor of the Ethiopian Empire and a member of the Solomonic dynasty
• Yael Arad (born 1967), Israeli judoka and first Israeli to win an Olympic medal
• Yitzhak Arad (1926–2021), born as Iccak Rudnicki), Lithuanian-Israeli historian of the Holocaust
• Zvi Arad (1942-2018), Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, president of Netanya Academic College

See also

• Arad (given name), list of people with the given name