Famous People with Name Rauf

Rauf Mehdiyev            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Rauf Mehdiyev: is an Azerbaijani football goalkeeper who plays for Olimpik Baku. He is also an international footballer who has played on 5 occasions for Azerbaijan. He reached the Azerbaijan Cup final in 2003-04 playing for FK Shamkir although they lost the match to PFC Neftchi. Since then he has played for Karabakh and FK Baku, before he joined Olimpik for the 2006-07 season.

Rauf Raif Denktas            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Rauf Raif Denktas: was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist elected in 1973 as the Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus. He later became recognised by Turkey as the founding President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), claiming that position from 1983 to 2005. In 1948 Denktas served as a member of the Consultative Assembly in search of self-government for Cyprus and became a member of the Turkish Affairs Committee. He was a crown prosecutor 1949–1958. He played a key role in the 1983 Unilateral Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and was elected as the President of the TRNC in 1985, 1990, 1995, and 2000.

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf: American professional basketball player.

Atif Rauf            Origin/Culture/Country: Pakistan

Atif Rauf: is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test (against New Zealand) in 1994. A right handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler, he scored 16 and 9 in his only appearance.

Shero Rauf            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Shero Rauf: a Kurdish-Iraqi actor and stuntman. He is the first Kurdish Iraqi person to work as an actor, stuntman, 3D visual effects animator, lead artist, and assistant director in Hollywood movies.[IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1941475/bio ]His first step in his career was in 2002 when he met Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal in which he later featured in his first movie role Epoch: Evolution (2003) with David Keith and Billy Dee Williams. In the same year he performed as a stunt actor for the movie Troy, as a Trojan archer facing Brad Pitt, in Mexico.