Safi Rauf

Safiullah Rauf (born 1994) is an Afghan-American nonprofit worker and Navy reservist.

Born in Pakistan, Rauf immigrated to the United States, where he became a hospital corpsman and linguist in the United States Navy. He founded the Human First Coalition, which works to evacuate refugees from Afghanistan. In December 2021, while providing humanitarian aid in Kabul, Rauf was detained by the Taliban and held for 105 days; he was subsequently released in early April 2022, following negotiations between the Taliban and the Biden administration. The Human First Coalition was accused of misconduct in 2022 and sued by one of its former partners.