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Arad (surname)

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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

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