- 南斯拉夫 nánsīlāfū YugoslaviaYugoslavia, a former country on the Balkan Peninsula that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003
- 穆沙拉夫 mùshālāfū MusharrafPervez Musharraf (1943-2023), Pakistani general and politician who served as president from 2001 to 2008
- 拉夫罗夫 lāfūluófū LavrovSergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician who served as Foreign Minister from 2004.
- 斯拉夫 sīlāfū SlavicSlav or Slavic; refers to the people or languages of Eastern Europe
- 拉夫桑贾尼 lāfūsāngjiǎní RafsanjaniAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017), former president of Iran
- 斯拉夫人 sīlāfūrén SlavSlavs; the Slavic people, characterized as speaking Indo-European Slavic languages and primarily living in Eastern Europe
- 克拉夫丘克 kèlāfūqiūkè Leonid KravchukLeonid Kravchuk (1934-2022), first president of post-Soviet Ukraine serving from 1991 to 1994
- 拉夫堡大学 lāfūbǎodàxué Loughborough UniversityA public research university located in Loughborough, England
- 拉夫堡 lāfūbǎo LoughboroughLoughborough, a town in Leicestershire, England
- 南斯拉夫联盟共和国 nánsīlāfūliánménggònghéguó Federal Republic of Yugoslaviasovereign state in Southeast Europe from 1992 to 2003, later becoming Serbia and Montenegro
- 斯拉夫语 sīlāfūyǔ Slavic languagesthe Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family
- 南斯拉夫社会主义联邦共和国 nánsīlāfūshèhuìzhǔyìliánbānggònghéguó Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslaviathe formal name of the Yugoslav state that existed from the end of World War II until its breakup in 1992
- 范德格拉夫 fàndégélāfū Van de GraaffRobert J. Van de Graaff (1901-1967), an American physicist known for inventing the Van de Graaff generator
- 范德格拉夫起电机 fàndégélāfūqǐdiànjī Van de Graaff generatorVan de Graaff generator; an electrostatic generator that uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages
