José Rafael Abinader Wassaf

José Rafael Abinader Wasaf (; 2 March 1929 – 4 November 2018) was a politician, lawyer and writer from the Dominican Republic and Vice-President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. He founded the Universidad Dominicana O&M, in which he was rector.

Abinader was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Dominican Revolutionary Party starting in 1963.

He was Secretary of the Treasury of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and from 1982 to 1984.

He founded the Dominican Social Alliance party (ASD; now the Modern Revolutionary Party or PRM); in 1998 he was elected Senator for the Santiago Province in an alliance with the Dominican Revolutionary Party.

Abinader was the ASD's presidential candidate for three times: 1982, 1990 and 1996. Thirty-four years after Abinader's first presidential campaign, his son Luis Abinader became the presidential candidate of that party (although renamed to the PRM) for the 2016 general election. and the 2020 general election, winning the latter.

Works "Ideas económicas y sociales" "Comentarios acerca del ahorro" "Bosquejo de un estudio económico" "La corrupción administrativa en América Latina" "La sociedad bajo escrutinio" "Poemas antiguos"