Faride Virginia Raful Soriano is a lawyer, politician, and radio and TV presenter from the Dominican Republic.

Raful was born in Santo Domingo, to politician and poet Tony Raful (of Lebanese descent), winner of the 2014 Dominican Prize of Literature, and his wife Grey Soriano, a lawyer and political scientist.

In the 2010 congressional election Raful was a Dominican Revolutionary Party candidate for deputy of the National District, but lost.

Six years later, she ran again for deputy, this time for the Modern Revolutionary Party, winning a seat in the lower house of the Dominican Congress.

[6][7] In the 2020 Dominican General Election, Raful was elected as the senator for the National District, beating Rafael Paz of the Dominican Liberation Party, And Vinicio Castillo of the Social Christian Reformist Party.