Rafael may refer to:

• Rafael (given name), a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has healed"
• Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the Israeli authority for development of weapons and military technology
• Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro, a brazilian football player
• San Rafael, for various places named for the Archangel Raphael in Spanish
• Rafael, California, former name of Rafael Village, California
• Rafael Hernandez

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• Raphael (disambiguation)
• Dassault Rafale, multi-role jet fighter

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• The Zulu people or amaZulu, an ethnic group of southern Africa.
• The Zulu language or isiZulu, a Bantu language of southern Africa
• The Zulu Kingdom, also called the Zulu Empire
• Zulu, code for the letter Z in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Zulu time, Coordinated Universal Time, whose name came from the NATO phonetic alphabet above
• Zulu (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal zebra made by Ty, Inc.

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Books

• The Zulu Principle, a 1992 book on financial investment

Television

• Zulu, the stage-name of Gilbert Lani Kauhi, who starred in Hawaii Five-O
• TV 2 Zulu, a modern Danish television station

Film

• Zulu (film), a 1964 film
• Zulu Dawn, a 1979 film, prequel to the 1964 release

Music

• "Zulu" (song), a 1981 dance single by British funk duo, The Quick
• Zulu (musician), a Panamanian dancehall reggae singer
• Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a Carnival Krewe in New Orleans
• Universal Zulu Nation, a hip hop group
• "Zulu", a song off of the Blink-182 EP They Came to Conquer... Uranus

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• The Zulu boat, a boat used in the Scottish east coast fishery
• Zulu class submarine, the first ballistic missile carrying submarines in the world
• HMS Zulu, the name of three ships of the British Royal Navy

Place name[link]

• Zulu, Indiana, a small town in the United States

See also[link]

• Amazulu (disambiguation)
• The Zulus, a football team in Sheffield, UK, that existed from 1879 to 1882
• Zululand (disambiguation)

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Marcelo Melo

Country	Brazil
Residence	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Born	(1983-09-23) September 23, 1983 (age 28) Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	87 kg (190 lb; 13.7 st)
Turned pro	1998
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	$749,303
Singles
Career record	1–0 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 273 (November 21, 2005)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	DNP
French Open	DNP
Wimbledon	DNP
US Open	DNP
Doubles
Career record	114–83 (at ATP Tour-level, Grand Slam-level, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	9
Highest ranking	No. 18 (February 2, 2009)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2009)
French Open	QF (2010)
Wimbledon	SF (2007)
US Open	QF (2007)
Last updated on: February 28, 2011.

Marcelo Melo (born September 23, 1983) is a Brazilian tennis player, currently ranked 22nd in the world in doubles. Alongside regular teammate André Sá, he has reached the Mens Doubles semifinal at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and the quarterfinal at the 2007 US Open. In 2009, he reached the mixed doubles final at the French Open with American Vania King, becoming only the seventh Brazilian to reach the final of a Grand Slam, and the first since Gustavo Kuerten.

Grand Slam Finals[link]

Mixed Doubles: 1 (0–1)[link]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents in Final	Score in Final
Runner-up	2009	French Open	Vania King	Bob Bryan Liezel Huber	7–5, 6–7(5–7), [7–10]

ATP Career Finals[link]

Doubles: 20 (9–11)[link]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
Winner	1.	April 29, 2007	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	André Sá	Martín García Sebastián Prieto	3–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Winner	2.	January 6, 2008	Adelaide, Australia	Hard	Martín García	Chris Guccione Robert Smeets	6–3, 3–6, [10–7]
Winner	3.	February 11, 2008	Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	André Sá	Albert Montañés Santiago Ventura	4–6, 6–2, [10–7]
Winner	4.	May 18, 2008	Pörtschach, Austria	Clay	André Sá	Julian Knowle Jürgen Melzer	7–5, 6–7(3–7), [13–11]
Runner-up	1.	June 9, 2008	London, Great Britain	Grass	André Sá	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Winner	5.	August 17, 2008	New Haven, USA	Hard	André Sá	Mahesh Bhupathi Mark Knowles	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	2.	March 1, 2009	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	André Sá	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	4–6, 4–6
Winner	6.	May 25, 2009	Kitzbühel, Austria	Clay	André Sá	Andrei Pavel Horia Tecău	6–7(9–11), 6–2, [10–7]
Runner-up	3.	June 14, 2009	London, Great Britain	Grass	André Sá	Wesley Moodie Mikhail Youzhny	4–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Runner-up	4.	July 26, 2009	Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Filip Polášek	Simon Aspelin Paul Hanley	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	5.	January 11, 2010	Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Bruno Soares	Marcos Daniell Horia Tecău	5–7, 4–6
Winner	7.	May 22, 2010	Nice, France	Clay	Bruno Soares	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	1–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Winner	8.	February 5, 2011	Santiago, Chile	Clay	Bruno Soares	Łukasz Kubot Oliver Marach	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
Runner-up	6.	August 1, 2010	Gstaad, Switzerland	Clay	Bruno Soares	Johan Brunström Jarkko Nieminen	3–6, 7–6(7–4), [9–11]
Runner-up	7.	September 26, 2010	Metz, France	Hard	Bruno Soares	Dustin Brown Rogier Wassen	3–6, 3–6
Winner	9.	February 12, 2011	Costa do Sauípe, Brazil	Clay	Bruno Soares	Pablo Andújar Daniel Gimeno-Traver	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Runner-up	8.	February 26, 2011	Acapulco, Mexico	Clay	Bruno Soares	Victor Hănescu Horia Tecău	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	9.	September 25, 2011	Metz, France	Hard (i)	Lukáš Dlouhý	Jamie Murray André Sá	4–6, 6–7(7–9)
Runner-up	10.	October 23, 2011	Stockholm, Sweden	Hard (i)	Bruno Soares	Rohan Bopanna Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	11.	February 26, 2012	Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Ivan Dodig	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	6–4, 5–7, [7–10]

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