List of Famous people named Raul
Raul Meireles
Raul José Trindade Meireles is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Raúl Peña
Raúl Peña is a Spanish stage and screen actor and singer known for appearing as Carmelo Leal in the long-running telenovela El secreto de Puente Viejo.
Raul Plassman
Raul Guilherme Plassmann is a Brazilian former football player and manager who played as a goalkeeper.
Raúl Othacehé
Raúl Alfredo Othacehé is an Argentine politician, lawyer, and former Mayor of Merlo, Province of Buenos Aires. He is known by his nickname "el Vasco" because of his Basque ancestry.
Raúl Iturriaga
Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann is a Chilean Army general and a former deputy director of the DINA, the Chilean secret police under the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship. He was in charge of a secret detention center known as La Venda Sexy and La Discothèque—because of the sexual abuse inflicted on blindfolded prisoners as loud music masked their screams. An aide to General Manuel Contreras, head of the DINA, he was in charge of several assassinations carried out as part of Operation Condor. He has been condemned in absentia in Italy for the failed murder of Christian-Democrat Bernardo Leighton, and is wanted both in Spain and in Argentina. In the latter country, he is accused of the assassination of General Carlos Prats.
Raúl Cervantes Andrade
Raúl Cervantes Andrade is a Mexican lawyer, academic, businessman and politician. He was CEO of CEA Abogados S.C., Vice-president of the National Chamber of Passage and Tourism Transportation and has been a Federal Deputy twice for PRI. He served as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from September 1, 2013 until August 30, 2014.
Raúl Silva Henríquez
Raúl Silva Henríquez SDB was a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church, a Cardinal from 1962. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1961 to 1983 and as Bishop of Valparaíso from 1959 to 1961. Both as Archbishop and in retirement, he was an advocate for social justice and democracy and a forthright vocal critic of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet—"a constant thorn in the Government's side".
Raul Khadjimba
Raul Jumkovich Khajimba is an Abkhazian politician, and served as President of Abkhazia from 25 September 2014 until 12 January 2020. He was also Chairman of the Forum for the National Unity of Abkhazia from 2010 to 2015. Khajimba previously held the offices of Vice President (2005–2009), Prime Minister (2003–2004) and Defence Minister (2002–2003). He unsuccessfully ran for President in 2004, 2009 and 2011. He resigned the presidency in 2020 due to protests against him.
Raúl Cárdenas
Raúl Cárdenas de la Vega was a Mexican football player and coach, and was an Olympian.
Raúl Alcántara
Raúl Alcántara is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics and in the KBO League for the KT Wiz and Doosan Bears.