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He was born on June 3, 1986 in Manacor.
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He announced that he named (128036) Rafaelnadal an asteroid discovered in 2003.
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In 2006 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit and the Laureus World Sports Award for the Best World Promise of the Year.
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In 2008 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports.
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In 2009 he received the Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sports.
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In 2010 he received the As Sports Award.
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In 2011 he was awarded the Laureus World Sports Award.
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On November 26, 2013 he received the Marca Leyenda award.
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On May 1, 2015 he received the Gold Medal for Merit at Work.
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In 2016 he was chosen as standard bearer of the Spanish delegation for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
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In December 2017, he received the As 50th Anniversary Award for Best Male Athlete.
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In December 2019 he was again awarded the Champion of Champions award.
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Mery Perelló, with whom he has been dating since 2005 and with whom he married in Mallorca in 2019.
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November 4, 2019 through February 3, 2020, this is the last day you had a match and won.
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At the end of 2019 it was confirmed that the Spanish will have a statue in his honor at Roland Garros.