Rifat

Rifat or Rifaat is both a given name and a surname of Arabic origin (Arabic: رفعت). Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Rifaat al-Assad (1937–2026), Syrian politician
Rifaat Eid (born 1977), Lebanese politician
Rifaat El-Fanagily (1936–2004), Egyptian footballer
Rifaat Garrana (1929–2017), Egyptian composer
Rifaat Hussain (1952–2025), Pakistani political scientist, professor, defense analyst and television personality
Rifaat el-Mahgoub (1926–1990), Egyptian politician
Rifaat Turk (born 1954), Team Israel Olympic footballer, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv
Rifat Artikov (born 1983), Uzbek decathlete
Rifat Atun, British physician and academic
Rifat Chadirji (1926–2020), Iraqi Turkmen architect
Rifat Dedja, Albanian politician
Rifat Hadžiselimović (born 1944), Bosnian geneticist
Rifat Hasan (born 1980), Bangladeshi writer and poet
Rifat Hoxha (born 1946), Albanian author and historian
Rifat Ibërshimi (born 1950), Albanian footballer
Rifat Jashari (born 1946), Kosovar Albanian public figure and patriarch of the Jashari family
Rifat Odeh Kassis, Palestinian human rights activist
Rifat Kukaj (1938–2005), Kosovar Albanian writer
Rifat Latifi (born 1955), Kosovar-American surgeon
Rifat Mustafin (born 1983), Russian footballer
Rifat Ozbek (born 1953), Turkish-British fashion designer
Rifat Pradhan (born 1997), Bangladeshi cricketer
Rifat Rastoder (1950–2023), Montenegrin politician
Rifat Shaykhutdinov (born 1963), Russian politician
Rifat Zhemaletdinov (born 1996), Russian Tatar footballer