Alex Rafael da Silva Antônio (born January 1, 1988), also known as Alex Rafael, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward.

Alex Rafael was born in São Paulo. He began his career in 2008 playing for the domestic team Red Bull Brazil. After a short period of a month he became one of the first players to play for the Salzburg club in Austria. He signed a year contract within a week. Shortly after he returned to Brazil to play for Commercial, which later loaned him to Thespa Kusatsu in Japan. Finally he was loaned back to Brazil to play for Ferroviaria in 2013. In a January 2017 he signed a contract with Al Shamal.