Arie de Graaf (born 4 August 1947, in Arnhem) is a Dutch insurer, biologist, teacher, and politician.

He worked for a mutual insurance (1966-1976) and was at the same time member of the municipal council of Arnhem (1970-1976).

In 1976 he was elected Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Dutch Labour Party.

De Graaf was opposed to atomic weapons and systematically voted against all related parts of the Dutch defense budget.

[2] He left the House of Representatives in 1981 and subsequently studied biology at Wageningen University, where he was a visiting scientist at the laboratory for plant taxonomy.