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Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez Álvarez (Rafa Márquez), Mexican defender and manager born 1979; five-time World Cup captain, Barcelona and Monaco honours, 2017 OFAC designation later lifted, Mexico head coach from 2026.
Rafael Munoz
Rafael Muñoz Pérez (Rafa Muñoz), Spanish butterfly swimmer born 1988 in Córdoba; 50 m butterfly world record holder 22.43 (2009–2018), two bronzes at Rome 2009 Worlds, 30th at Beijing 2008 Olympics, retired 2016.
Rafael Nadal
Rafael Nadal (Rafael Nadal Parera), Spanish tennis player, "King of Clay": 22 Grand Slam singles titles including record 14 French Opens, 92 singles titles, career Grand Slam twice, two Olympic golds; retired November 2024 after Davis Cup in Malaga.
Rafael Nadal career statistics
Rafael Nadal career statistics: the Spanish tennis player's record of 22 Grand Slam titles (14 Roland Garros), 92 tour titles, 209 weeks at No. 1, 1,080-228 win-loss, two Olympic golds, retired November 2024.
Rafael Nel
Rafael Ferreira Nel (Rafael Nel), Portuguese centre-forward born 2005 in Amadora, plays for Sporting CP (number 9). Benfica and Belenenses youth product, U20 international, contract to 2029.
Rafael Nickel
Rafael Nickel (born 1958, Hamburg) is a German épée fencer for West Germany who won Olympic gold in the men's épée team at Los Angeles 1984 and world team silver in 1983.
Rafael Núñez
Rafael Núñez (1825–1894) was a Colombian statesman who served four times as president and led the Regeneration movement that produced the centralizing Constitution of 1886.
Rafael of Orléans-Braganza
Rafael of Orléans-Braganza (Dom Rafael de Orléans e Bragança, born 1986) is a Brazilian engineer and Prince Imperial of Brazil since 8 November 2024, heir of the Vassouras branch head Dom Bertrand; his 2026 engagement to Margherita delle Piane sparked a succession dispute.
Rafael Palacios de la Lama
Rafael Palacios de la Lama is a Mexican molecular biologist at UNAM who studies genome dynamics and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born MLB first baseman (1986–2005) for Cubs, Rangers, Orioles; 3,020 hits, 569 home runs; suspended 2005 for stanozolol, never elected to Hall of Fame.
Rafael Pérez (police officer)
Rafael Pérez, former LAPD Rampart CRASH officer; stole six pounds of cocaine in 1998, then cooperated in the Rampart scandal, implicating 28 officers and triggering about 170 exonerations and a federal consent decree.
Rafael Radi
Rafael Radi, born 1963 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan biochemist known for research on nitric oxide and peroxynitrite, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Rafael Reyes (artist)
Rafael Reyes, aka Leafar Seyer, is a Mexican-American musician and artist, frontman of San Diego's cholo goth duo Prayers with Dave Parley, creator of the cholo goth genre, ex-gang member, and husband of Kat Von D.
Rafael Rosell
Rafael Rosell is a Spanish medical oncologist who has specialized in lung cancer since 1982 and led Europe's implementation of routine EGFR mutation testing for first-line treatment.
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and journalist of the Generation of the 50, best known for El Jarama (1955), a landmark of postwar Spanish narrative.
Rafael Santos Borré
Rafael Santos Borré (Rafael Santos Borré Maury), Colombian striker born 1995 in Barranquilla; River Plate and Colombia forward, Copa Libertadores 2018 and Europa League 2022 winner, formerly of Atlético Madrid, Villarreal, Eintracht Frankfurt, Werder Bremen, and Internacional.
Rafael Simancas Simancas
Rafael Simancas Simancas, born in Germany in 1966, is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician serving since 2021 as Secretary of State for Relations with the Courts and Constitutional Affairs.
Rafael Sorkin
Rafael Dolnick Sorkin (1945–2026) was an American theoretical physicist who co-founded the causal set approach to quantum gravity, originated entanglement entropy, and co-discovered the Kaluza-Klein monopole.
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (1891–1961), Dominican dictator who ruled 1930–1961 after a February 1930 coup, amassed an $800 million family fortune, promoted anti-Haitianism, and was assassinated 30 May 1961.
Rafael Urdaneta
Rafael Urdaneta (1788–1845) was a Venezuelan general and statesman who fought in the independence wars and served as provisional chief of Gran Colombia from 1830 to 1831.
Rafael van der Vaart
Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch attacking midfielder (born 1983, Heemskerk); Ajax, Hamburg, Real Madrid, Tottenham; 109 Netherlands caps, 25 goals; inaugural 2003 Golden Boy; retired 2018.
Rafael Vasto
Rafael Vasto is a Brazilian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Daki, the São Paulo rapid grocery delivery company he founded in 2021 that became a unicorn valued at US$1.2 billion.
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste is a neuroscientist at Columbia University who develops optical methods to observe and control cortical circuits and led the group proposing the US BRAIN Initiative.
Rafaela Ferreira
Rafaela Ferreira (born 2005, Criciúma, Brazil) is a Brazilian racing driver in F1 Academy for Campos Racing, car 18, supported by Racing Bulls; first female race winner in Brazilian F4.
Rafah (رفح)
Rafah (رفح) is Gaza's southernmost city on the Egyptian border, ancient Raphia of the 217 BCE battle, site of the Rafah Crossing, devastated in the 2024 Israeli offensive and partially reopened in February 2026.
Rafah offensive
The Rafah offensive was an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, launched in May 2024 during the Gaza war, displacing roughly one million people.
Rafah paramedic massacre
Rafah paramedic massacre: Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers (8 PRCS, 6 Civil Defense, 1 UNRWA) in Rafah on 23 March 2025 and buried them in a mass grave; a phone video contradicted initial IDF claims.
Rafał Bruski
Rafał Bruski, born 1962, is a Polish Civic Platform politician who has served as Mayor of Bydgoszcz since 2010, after serving as voivode of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.
Rafal E. Dunin‐Borkowski
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski is an electron microscopist who has directed the Ernst Ruska-Centre and PGI-5 at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2011, known for electron holography of magnetic fields and the 2023 hopfion rings paper.
Rafał Jaki
Rafał Jaki, Polish gamedev and transmedia creator; CD PROJEKT RED business development head, creator/showrunner of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, writer of The Witcher: Ronin and No\Name manga.