List of Famous people named Raul
Raúl Olivares
Raúl Alejandro Olivares Gálvez is a Chilean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Deportes La Serena. On May 5, 2017, he scored the first goal of his professional career, a penalty kick against Sport Boys.
Raúl Rodríguez Navas
Raúl Rodríguez Navas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central defender for FC Cartagena.
Raúl Baglini
Raúl Baglini was an Argentine politician who served in both houses of the National Congress of Argentina, representing the Radical Civic Union.
Raúl Gorrín
Raúl Gorrín Belisario is a fugitive Venezuelan lawyer and businessman who currently serves as president of Globovisión and La Vitalicia insurance company. Due to his close relationship with the Venezuelan government, he is currently subjected to US sanctions over a corruption scheme involving bribery payments to Chávez-era government ministers. In November 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added Raúl Gorrín to the ICE Most Wanted List accused of money laundering.
Raul Costa Seibeb
Raul Costa Seibeb was a Namibian professional racing cyclist. In 2014 he won the Namibian National Road Race Championships. He died on 1 May 2017 in a car accident.
Raúl Pacheco
Raúl Manuel Pacheco Mendoza is a Peruvian long-distance runner. He was born in Santa Fe de Jauja. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, finishing in 21st place. Raul Pacheco placed 6th at the Rotterdam Marathon (2:11:01) in 2015, set a new national record and qualified for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. In July 2015, he placed second in the Toronto Pan American Games with a time of 2:17:13, and took home Peru's inaugural medal in a marathon at the Pan American games.
Raúl Prebisch
Raúl Prebisch was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executive director of the Economic Commission for Latin America in 1950. In 1950, he also released the very influential study The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems.
Raúl Loaiza
Raúl Alberto Loaiza Morelos is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Defensa y Justicia.
Raúl Sánchez
Raúl Pedro Sánchez Soya was a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Santiago Wanderers, Everton and Colo-Colo.
Raul Danda
Raul Danda was an Angolan politician. From 2016 to 2021, he was Vice-President of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).