List of Famous people named Rakan

Turki al-Hamad is a Saudi Arabian political analyst, journalist, and novelist, best known for his trilogy about the coming-of-age of Hisham al-Abir, a Saudi Arabian teenager, the first installment of which, Adama, was published in 1998. Although banned in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Kuwait, the Arabic edition of the trilogy — called in Arabic Atyaf al-Aziqah al-Mahjurah — has sold 20,000 copies.

Rakan bin Falah bin Mani’ bin Hathleen Al-Ajmi (1814–1892), also known as Abu Falah, was a prince, poet, warrior, and leader of the Ajman tribe. His father, Falah bin Hethlin, was sheikh. Upon the death of his father in 1845, the sheikhdom moved to Rakan's uncle Hizam. When he abdicated due to old age in 1859, Rakan became the Sheikh of the Ajman tribe. Rakan was imprisoned in the city of Niš in Serbia while it was affiliated with the Ottoman Empire, during the Serbian–Turkish War (1876–1878), and he participated in a battle between the Serbs and the Ottomans during his imprisonment.

Rakan Al-Shamlan is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a second-striker and winger for Pro League side Al-Batin.