From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raphael (given name)
Raphael (given name)
Raphael is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is • Rafael Arevalo, Salvadoran tennis player
Healer" ( .)רפאלDepending on the language (first popu- • Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
larly used in France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal [Mediter- • Rafael Carbonell, Cuban flyweight boxer
ranean countries]) it can be spelled either Raphael or • Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
Rafael. • Rafael Medina, Basketball Player in Santa
Paula,California
List of people with the given •
•
Rafael Mea Vitali, Venezuelan football defender
Rafael Montiel, Colombian road cyclist
name Raphael • Rafał Moks, Polish mixed martial arts fighter
• Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
• Raphael (archangel), an archangel in Judaism, Islam,
• Rafael Nepomuceno, Filipino bowler
and Christianity, after whom all or most other uses
• Rafael Palmeiro, Major League Baseball player
are named
• Rafael Pascual, Spanish volleyball player
• Raphael, or Raffaello Sanzio (1483–1520), Italian
• Rafael Ramos, Puerto Rican boxer
master painter and architect in the High Renaissance
• Rafael Romero, Venezuelan track and field athlete
• Raphael (singer) (born 1943), Spanish singer
• Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
• Raphael (musician) (born 1948), American musician
• Rafael Zuñiga, Colombian boxer
• Raphael of Brooklyn (1860–1915), a saint in the
Christian Orthodox tradition Brazilian footballers
• Patriarch Raphael I of Constantinople, Patriarch • Rafael Pereira da Silva (footballer born 1980),
from 1475 to 1476 currently playing for Fluminense
• Patriarch Raphael II of Constantinople, Patriarch • Rafael Schmitz (1980), currently playing for
from 1603 to 1607 Valenciennes
• pseudonym of Robert Cross Smith (1795–1832) • Rafael Godoi Pereira (1985), currently playing for FK
• Raphael Lemkin, Holocaust survivor Laktaši
• Raphaël Haroche (born 1975), French singer • Renato Rafael Bondi (1981), currently playing for
Arezzo
List of people with the given • Rafael Pereira da Silva (footballer born 1990),
currently playing for Manchester United
name Rafael • Rafael Vágner Dias Silva (1983), currently playing for
• Rafael Eitan, Israeli general, former Chief of Staff of Náutico
the Israel Defense Forces, and politician • Rafael Araújo Silva (1988), currently playing for
• Rafael Trujillo, former Dominican president Corinthians
(dictator) • Rafael Silva Nascimento (1984), currently playing for
• Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador Vasco
• Rafael Guizar Valencia, Mexican saint • Rafael Pires Vieira (1978), currently playing for FC
• Rafael Núñez (hacker), also known as RaFa, a hacker/ Lahti
cracker and model from Venezuela • Rafael Cabral Barbosa (1990), currently playing for
Santos
Arts
• Rafael Arevalo, Mexican-American Composer See also
• Rafael Bittencourt, Brazilian power metal composer
• Raphaël
and song writer
• Raphael (disambiguation)
• Raffaello da Urbino (1483 – 1520), known as Raphael,
• Rafael (disambiguation)
Italian painter
• Saint Raphael (disambiguation)
Sports
• Rafael Alarçón, Brazilian squash player
• Rafael Álvarez, Spanish diver
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• Spanish masculine given names
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