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Raf-Saperra (عدیل سردار خان)
Raf-Saperra (Adeel Sardar Khan, عدیل سردار خان), British-Punjabi singer born 1998 in South London, fuses Punjabi folk, qawwali, and bhangra with hip-hop and UK garage; known for Modern Mirza, Ruff Around the Edges, and Venomz Vol. II.
Rafa Berges
Rafa Berges (Rafael Berges Marín, born 1971, Córdoba) is a Spanish retired left back and coach; Olympic gold medalist in men's football at Barcelona 1992 with Spain, later CD Tenerife and RC Celta de Vigo player.
Rafa Mir
Rafa Mir (Rafael Mir Vicente), Spanish striker born 1997 in Cartagena; Valencia academy, Wolves, Sevilla (2022-23 Europa League), loans at Valencia and Elche; sentenced June 2026 to 8.5 years for sexual aggression, appealed; loaned to Aris Thessaloniki.
Rafa Salama (رفا سلامة)
Rafa Salama (رفا سلامة), also Rafa'a Salameh, was commander of Hamas's Khan Yunis Brigade from 2016, a Gilad Shalit abduction plotter and October 7 mastermind per the IDF, killed in the July 13, 2024 al-Mawasi airstrike that also targeted Mohammed Deif.
Rafa Salazar
Rafa Salazar, real name Rafael Antonio Cardona Salazar (alias Rafico), was a Colombian Medellín Cartel U.S. representative, allegedly implicated in Barry Seal's murder, assassinated in Envigado December 4, 1987, age 35; known mainly via Netflix's Griselda (2024).
Rafa Silva
Rafa Silva (Rafael Alexandre Fernandes Ferreira Silva, born 1993), Portuguese forward; Euro 2016 winner; Braga, Benfica (94 goals, 7 titles), Besiktas, back at Benfica 2026 until 2028.
Rafael (footballer, born 1990)
Rafael Pereira da Silva (Rafael da Silva), Brazilian right-back born 1990 in Petrópolis; Manchester United 2008-2015 (170 apps, three Premier League titles), later Lyon, Başakşehir, and Botafogo; retired December 2024. Distinct from Rafa Silva of Portugal and judoka Rafael Silva.
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, founded in Israel in 1948, is a state-owned arms company best known for the Iron Dome missile defense system and Trophy active protection.
Rafael Alberti
Rafael Alberti (Rafael Alberti Merello), 1902–1999, Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 from El Puerto de Santa María; author of Marinero en tierra and Sobre los ángeles, communist militant, exile in Argentina and Rome, Cervantes Prize 1983.
Rafael Altamira y Crevea
Rafael Altamira y Crevea was a Spanish historian and jurist, born in Alicante in 1866, who served on the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1921 to 1940.
Rafael Amaya
Rafael Amaya (José Rafael Amaya Núñez) is a Mexican actor and producer best known for playing drug lord Aurelio Casillas in Telemundo's series El Señor de los Cielos.
Rafael Anchía
Rafael Anchía is an American politician and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 103, covering parts of Dallas County, now in his eleventh term.
Rafael Arévalo Martínez
Rafael Arévalo Martínez (1884–1975) was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat of the Generación de 1910, known for the story "El hombre que parecía un caballo".
Rafael Barba
Rafael Barba, played by Raúl Esparza, is the assistant district attorney on Law & Order: SVU from season 14 to 19, later a defense attorney in seasons 21 to 23, with a 91% conviction rate.
Rafael Barrett
Rafael Barrett (1876–1910) was a Spanish anarchist essayist and journalist whose chronicles of Paraguay made him a founder of social and anti-colonial literature in Latin America.
Rafael Benítez
Rafael Benítez (Rafael Benítez Maudes, born 1960, Madrid) is a Spanish football manager; won the 2005 Champions League with Liverpool after the Istanbul comeback, two La Liga titles with Valencia, and 13 trophies overall.
Rafael Brüschweiler
Rafael Brüschweiler is an NMR spectroscopist, professor, and Ohio Research Scholar at Ohio State University since 2013, known for covariance NMR and deep-learning spectral analysis.
Rafael Buendía
Rafael Buendía, born in Zacatecas, Mexico, is a ranchera and corrido singer, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker who has recorded more than 150 albums and earned a 1987 Grammy nomination.
Rafael Cadenas
Rafael Cadenas, born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, in 1930, is a Venezuelan poet and essayist known for Los cuadernos del destierro and winner of the 2022 Premio Cervantes.
Rafael Caldera
Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez (1916–2009), Venezuelan Christian democratic statesman, founder of COPEI and Convergencia, signer of the Pacto de Punto Fijo, and two-term president (1969–1974, 1994–1999) known for pacifying the guerrillas, oil nationalization groundwork, the 1994 banking crisis response, and freeing Hugo Chávez.
Rafael Caro Quintero
Rafael Caro Quintero, "Narco of Narcos" (born 1952), Mexican drug trafficker who co-founded the Guadalajara Cartel, ordered the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, served 40 years until a 2013 release, was recaptured in Sinaloa in 2022, and was expelled to US prosecution in Brooklyn in 2025.
Rafael Carrera
Rafael Carrera (1814–1865) was a Guatemalan caudillo and president-for-life who rose from drummer boy to lead a peasant rebellion, dominated Guatemala from 1839, and proclaimed the republic in 1847.
Rafael Casal
Rafael Casal (born 1985, Berkeley, California), also Rafael Santiago Casal, American writer, actor, producer, and poet; co-wrote, produced, and starred in Blindspotting (2018) and ran its Starz series; appeared in Loki season 2, Wildcat, and Bad Education.
Rafael Casellas
Rafael Casellas, also published as Rafael C. Casellas, is a molecular biologist who studies B lymphocytes and genome architecture, now at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center after the NIH.
Rafael Castro
Rafael Castro (born 2003, Dover, New Jersey) is an NBA center with the Los Angeles Lakers, an undrafted 2026 rookie from George Washington who set the program's 64.4% career field-goal record.
Rafael Chirbes
Rafael Chirbes (1949–2015) was a Spanish novelist and literary critic whose nine novels trace Spain's private history from the Civil War through the Transition to the 2008 crisis.
Rafael Correa
Rafael Correa (Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado, born 1963), Ecuadorian economist and president 2007-2017, led the Citizens' Revolution and the 2008 Constitution, was reelected in 2009 and 2013, and was convicted in absentia in 2020.
Rafael Cruz
Rafael Cruz is a Cuban-born ordained evangelical minister who directs the ministry Grace for America and served as a principal campaign surrogate for his son, US Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Rafael de Cabo
Rafael de Cabo is a Spanish-born physiologist who studies how caloric restriction and intermittent fasting affect aging, leading the Translational Gerontology Branch at the National Institute on Aging.
Rafael de la Fuente
Rafael de la Fuente, Venezuelan-born American actor and singer born 1986 in Caracas, known as Sammy Jo in the CW Dynasty reboot (2017–2022), Michael Sanchez on Empire, and roles in Grachi, Every Witch Way, When We Rise, Fire Country, and Hallmark's Letters to Santa.