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Raul Briceno
Raúl Briceño is a Venezuelan-born theoretical nuclear physicist and assistant professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, awarded a 2025 PECASE for lattice QCD research.
Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro (Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz), born 1931, is a Cuban revolutionary who led Cuba from 2006 to 2018 and remained a central power figure after retiring.
Raúl de Tomás
Raúl de Tomás (RDT), Spanish striker born 1994 in Madrid, Real Madrid academy product; starred at Rayo Vallecano (24 goals, 2017-18 promotion), Benfica, Espanyol (club-record €22.5M), and back at Rayo, his current club.
Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza (Raúl Eduardo Esparza, born 1970) is a Cuban-American stage and television actor and singer, a four-time Tony nominee known for Company and as ADA Rafael Barba on Law & Order: SVU.
Raul Fernandes (diplomat)
Raul Fernandes (1877–1968) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, and diplomat who twice served as Foreign Minister and presided over the 1947 Petrópolis conference that produced the Rio Treaty.
Raul Flores (strongman)
Raul Flores, "Tayzon" (Raúl Abraham Flores Castro), Mexican strongman born 2000; set the 511 kg strongman deadlift world record at the 2026 World Deadlift Championships in Birmingham, beating Hafþór Björnsson's 510 kg.
Raul G. Nogueira
Raul G. Nogueira is a Brazilian-born American neurologist who directs the UPMC Stroke Institute in Pittsburgh and led the DAWN trial of late-window stroke thrombectomy.
Raúl Gómez Jattin
Raúl Gómez Jattin (1945–1997) was a Colombian poet from Cartagena who grew up in the Sinú valley, wrote the erotic Tríptico cereteano, and became a celebrated "poeta maldito" figure.
Raúl González Tuñón
Raúl González Tuñón was an Argentine poet and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1905, a founder of urban poetry in Spanish and precursor of social poetry in Argentina.
Raúl Grijalva
Raúl Manuel Grijalva (1948–2025), Arizona Democratic congressman, twelve-term House member for Tucson-area districts, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, Progressive Caucus leader, environmental and tribal advocate; died in office March 13, 2025; succeeded by daughter Adelita Grijalva.
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro
Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, "El Cangrejo," born 1985, grandson of Raúl Castro, Interior Ministry colonel and former head of his grandfather's security detail; unofficial Cuban interlocutor in 2026 US-Cuba talks despite no government post.
Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Austrian-born American political scientist at the University of Vermont, founder of Holocaust studies; author of The Destruction of the European Jews (1961, revised 1985 and 2003), which framed the Holocaust as a bureaucratic process.
Raul Ibarra
Raúl Ibarra (José Dolores Raúl Ibarra y Zapata, 1908–2002), Mexican free pistol shooter; four-time Olympian 1952–1964, 1951 Pan Am gold and 1955 bronze in team pistol, 1968 Mexico Olympics organizing secretary general, 1992 Silver Olympic Order.
Raúl Jalil
Raúl Jalil is an Argentine politician and former economist serving his second term as Governor of Catamarca, having earlier been mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca from 2011 to 2019.
Raúl Jiménez
Raúl Alonso Jiménez Rodríguez, Mexican centre-forward born 1991 in Tepeji del Río; América, Atlético Madrid, Benfica, Wolves (£30m record), Fulham, Wolves again 2026; 46+ Mexico goals, 2020 fractured-skull comeback, Olympic gold 2012.
Raul Julia
Raúl Juliá (Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay, 1940–1994), Puerto Rican stage and film actor; four Tony nominations, Gomez Addams, Kiss of the Spider Woman, posthumous Emmy and Golden Globe for The Burning Season.
Raúl Labrador
Raúl R. Labrador is an American Republican politician and attorney serving as Idaho's attorney general, elected in 2022 after representing Idaho's 1st district in Congress from 2011 to 2019.
Raúl Leoni
Raúl Leoni Otero (1905–1972) was a Venezuelan lawyer and founding leader of Acción Democrática who served as president from 1964 to 1969, handing power to the opposition in 1969.
Raúl M. Arias-Marxuach
Raúl Manuel Arias-Marxuach, born 1967 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge appointed by President Trump in 2019 and chief judge since 2021.
Raul Meireles
Raul Meireles (Raul Jose Trindade Meireles, born 1983, Porto), Portuguese midfielder for Porto, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Fenerbahce; 2012 Champions League winner, 76 Portugal caps, retired 2016.
Raúl Méndez
Raúl Méndez is a Spanish RNA biologist and ICREA research professor at IRB Barcelona who studies translational control of messenger RNAs by CPEB proteins in oocytes and cancer.
Raúl Mostoslavsky
Raúl Mostoslavsky is an Argentine-born physician-scientist who studies how SIRT6 links DNA repair, metabolism, and cancer, and who leads the Mass General Cancer Center's research as Scientific Director.
Raúl Padrón
Raúl Padrón is a Venezuelan-born structural biologist who studies myosin thick filaments of muscle, revealed the interacting-heads motif, and joined UMass Chan Medical School as professor in 2018.
Raul Pompeia
Raul Pompeia (Raul Pompéia), full name Raul de Ávila Pompeia, was a Brazilian Realist and Naturalist novelist and caricaturist, best known for the school novel O Ateneu, published in 1888.
Raúl Prebisch
Raúl Prebisch (1901–1986) was an Argentine economist who founded the Central Bank of Argentina, led ECLAC and UNCTAD, and promoted structuralist economics, the first Latin American school of development criticism.
Raúl Rangel (footballer)
Raúl 'Tala' Rangel (José Raúl Rangel Aguilar), born 2000 in Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco, is a Mexican goalkeeper for Chivas Guadalajara and Mexico; 100 Liga MX appearances, 34 clean sheets, and Mexico's starter with four clean sheets at the 2026 World Cup.
Raul Rosas Jr.
Raul Rosas Jr. (El Niño Problema), born 2004, is a UFC bantamweight from Clovis, New Mexico; youngest fighter ever signed by the UFC at 17 and youngest winner at 18, with a 13-1 pro record.
Raul Ruiz
Raul Ruiz, born in 1972, is an American emergency physician and Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 25th district since 2023, having represented the 36th district from 2013 to 2023.
Raúl Torrez
Raúl Torrez is an American attorney and Democrat serving as Attorney General of New Mexico since 2023, after serving as Bernalillo County District Attorney from 2017 to 2022.
Raúl Zúñiga
Raúl Zúñiga (José Raúl Zúñiga Murillo, 'Pantera'), Colombian striker born 1994; played for Tijuana, Querétaro, Dorados, then Club América from 2025; deregistered by América in September 2026.