Raif, Raaif, sometimes

Raef Raef is a male given name. Arabic Raif, Raaif or Raef (Arabic: رَائِف ''rā’if'') is an Arabic male given name meaning "kind, compassionate, affectionate, benign" or "sympathetic, merciful". The name comes from the Arabic verb ''ra’af ...

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: رَائِف ''rā’if'') is an Arabic male given name or used as a surname meaning "kind, compassionate, affectionate, benign" or "sympathetic, merciful". The name comes from the Arabic verb ''ra’afa'' (رَأَفَ) "to have compassion for, have mercy upon, be merciful toward" and stems from the noun ''ra’ūf'' or ''rawūf'' (رَؤُوفَ) which is also used as the male given name Rauf. Other written variants are Ra'ef, Rayif or Raefe. Notable people with the name include:

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Raif Badawi Raif bin Muhammad Badawi ( ar, رائف بن محمد بدوي, also transcribed Raef bin Mohammed Badawi; born 13 January 1984) is a Saudi writer, dissident and activist, as well as the creator of the website ''Free Saudi Liberals''. Badawi wa ...

(born 1984), Saudi writer, dissident and activist * Raif Denktaş (1951–1985), Turkish Cypriot composer, politician, academic, journalist and writer *

Raif Dizdarević Raif Dizdarević (born 9 December 1926) is a Bosnian politician who served as Yugoslavia's first Bosniak president of the Presidency from 1988 until 1989. He participated in the armed resistance as a Yugoslav Partisan during World War II. Didzar ...

(born 1926), Bosnian politician * Raif Husić (born 1996), German footballer * Raif Khoury (1913–1967), Lebanese writer * Raif Muradov (born 1993), Bulgarian footballer

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* Samira Raif (born 1974), Moroccan long-distance runner {{given name, type=both

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