Rafael Hertzberg (18 September 1845 in Turku – 5 December 1896 in Helsingfors) was a Finland-Swedish writer, translator, historian, businessman, inventor and publicist.

He worked as a literature, theater and art critic at Helsingfors Dagblad from the end of the 1860s and from 1875–1888 as the newspaper's cultural editor.

[1] In the 1890s, Hertzberg was also acting as a Finnish agent for foreign life insurance companies.

He performed the first Swedish translation of the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (1880.

[4] He is today mostly known for writing the lyrics of the Christmas song Julpolska ("Nu ha vi ljus här i vårt hus ") with music by Johanna Ölander (1827-1909).