Rudolf Albert Raff (November 10, 1941 – January 5, 2019) was an American biologist, and the James H. Rudy Professor of Biology at Indiana University.

[4] He was renowned for his research in, and promotion of, evolutionary developmental biology.

Additionally, he served as the director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.

[5][6] Raff was born in Shawnigan, Quebec[7] in 1941 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

He died in 2019 in Bloomington Hospital, Indiana, at the age of 77.