Rafael Albuquerque is a Brazilian comic book creator primarily for his artwork on books such as DC Comics' Blue Beetle and American Vampire. Though primarily a penciler and inker of interior comic art, he has also done work as a cover artist, colorist and writer.

Rafael Albuquerque was born in 1981, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Albuquerque begun his professional career working in advertising, doing work for local companies. He began his comic book career in 2002, after posting his portfolio on the Internet, doing work for the Egyptian publishing company AK Comics, which published books for the Middle East.

In 2005, Albuquerque published the creator-owned graphic novel crime story Rumble in la Rambla. It would later be published in the United States in 2007 by Image Comics under the title Crimeland. In 2006 Albuquerque collaborated with writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant by illustrating issues 4 and 5 Jeremiah Harm and the first issue of Pirate Tales for Boom! Studios. In 2006 and 2007 he illustrated the first three issues of the Boom! series Savage Brothers.