Rafael Rodríguez Rapún
Rafael Rodríguez Rapún (1912–18 August 1937) was a Spanish football player, actor and soldier during the Spanish Civil War. He was the companion of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Life A mining engineer by profession, great sportsman, Atlético Madrid football player, PSOE activist, Rafael Rodríguez Rapún was from a working-class background. In 1933, he joined Federico García Lorca's La Barraca theater company as an actor. García Lorca affectionately nicknamed him "The Man with the Three Rs", in reference to his initials. Luis Sáenz de la Calzada, a painter and also an actor of La Barraca, described his: "Kinky, hair, not very wide forehead furrowed by a deep transverse wrinkle; correct nose that gave him, to a certain extent, the profile of a Greek statue." García Lorca and Rodríguez Rapún fell in love during the summer of 1935 tour of La Barraca, when he named him clerk of the company. Once the assassination of García Lorca by Francoist militias was announced at the end of summer 1936, Rodríguez Rapún decided to join the front to defend the Republic during the Spanish Civil War. After undergoing artillery training in the town of Lorca, province of Murcia, he was sent to the Cantabrian