Rifat
Rifat or Rifaat is both a given name and a surname of Arabic origin. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Rifaat al-Assad, Syrian politician
- Rifaat Eid, Lebanese politician
- Rifaat El-Fanagily, Egyptian footballer
- Rifaat Garrana, Egyptian composer
- Rifaat Hussain, Pakistani political scientist, professor, defense analyst and television personality
- Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician
- Rifaat Turk, Team Israel Olympic footballer, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv
- Rifat Artikov, Uzbek decathlete
- Rifat Atun, British physician and academic
- Rifat Chadirji, Iraqi Turkmen architect
- Rifat Dedja, Albanian politician
- Rifat Hadžiselimović, Bosnian geneticist
- Rifat Hasan, Bangladeshi writer and poet
- Rifat Hoxha, Albanian author and historian
- Rifat Ibërshimi, Albanian footballer
- Rifat Jashari, Kosovar Albanian public figure and patriarch of the Jashari family
- Rifat Odeh Kassis, Palestinian human rights activist
- Rifat Kukaj, Kosovar Albanian writer
- Rifat Latifi, Kosovar-American surgeon
- Rifat Mustafin, Russian footballer
- Rifat Ozbek, Turkish-British fashion designer
- Rifat Pradhan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- Rifat Rastoder, Montenegrin politician
- Rifat Shaykhutdinov, Russian politician
- Rifat Zhemaletdinov, Russian Tatar footballer
Surname
- Ahmed Rifaat, Egpytian football coach
- Ahmed Rifaat (judge), Egyptian judge
- Ahmad Rifaat Pasha, Egyptian royal
- Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian author
- Bilal Rifaat, Egyptian fencer
- Kamal Rifaat, Egyptian military officer and politician
- Nozad Saleh Rifaat, Iraqi Kurdish physician and politician
- Rasheek Rifaat, Canadian electrical engineer