Raphael (given name)
Raphael is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is Healer" (רפאל). Depending on the language (first popularly used in France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal [Mediterranean countries]) it can be spelled either Raphael or Rafael.
List of people with the given name Raphael
- Raphael (archangel), an archangel in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, after whom all or most other uses are named
- Raphael, or Raffaello Sanzio (1483–1520), Italian master painter and architect in the High Renaissance
- Raphael (singer) (born 1943), Spanish singer
- Raphael (musician) (born 1948), American musician
- Raphael of Brooklyn (1860–1915), a saint in the Christian Orthodox tradition
- Patriarch Raphael I of Constantinople, Patriarch from 1475 to 1476
- Patriarch Raphael II of Constantinople, Patriarch from 1603 to 1607
- pseudonym of Robert Cross Smith (1795–1832)
- Raphael Lemkin, Holocaust survivor
- Raphaël Haroche (born 1975), French singer
List of people with the given name Rafael
Arts
Sports
- Rafael Alarçón, Brazilian squash player
- Rafael Álvarez, Spanish diver
- Rafael Arevalo, Salvadoran tennis player
- Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
- Rafael Carbonell, Cuban flyweight boxer
- Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
- Rafael Medina, Basketball Player in Santa Paula,California
- Rafael Mea Vitali, Venezuelan football defender
- Rafael Montiel, Colombian road cyclist
- Rafał Moks, Polish mixed martial arts fighter
- Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player
- Rafael Nepomuceno, Filipino bowler
- Rafael Palmeiro, Major League Baseball player
- Rafael Pascual, Spanish volleyball player
- Rafael Ramos, Puerto Rican boxer
- Rafael Romero, Venezuelan track and field athlete
- Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
- Rafael Zuñiga, Colombian boxer
- Rafael Pereira da Silva (footballer born 1980), currently playing for Fluminense
- Rafael Schmitz (1980), currently playing for Valenciennes
- Rafael Godoi Pereira (1985), currently playing for FK Laktaši
- Renato Rafael Bondi (1981), currently playing for Arezzo
- Rafael Pereira da Silva (footballer born 1990), currently playing for Manchester United
- Rafael Vágner Dias Silva (1983), currently playing for Náutico
- Rafael Araújo Silva (1988), currently playing for Corinthians
- Rafael Silva Nascimento (1984), currently playing for Vasco
- Rafael Pires Vieira (1978), currently playing for FC Lahti
- Rafael Cabral Barbosa (1990), currently playing for Santos
See also