Raffles may refer to:

Singapore

  • Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore
  • Raffles Hotel in Singapore
  • Raffles Place, the centre of the Financial District of Singapore
  • Raffles Library and Museum, original institution that is now the National Museum of Singapore
  • Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, now part of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore
  • Raffles College, now part of the National University of Singapore
  • Raffles Institution, a pre-tertiary educational institution in Singapore
  • Raffles Junior College, a junior college now merged with the Raffles Institution
  • Raffles Girls' School, an all-girls secondary school in Singapore
  • Raffles Girls' Primary School, an all-girls primary school in Singapore

Fiction

Literature

  • A. J. Raffles (character), a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung
  • Raffles stories and adaptations, based on the series of books by E. W. Hornung
  • Raffles (character), a fictional German gentleman thief, also known as Lord Lister, originally with similarities to A. J. Raffles

Stage

  • Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman (play) a 1903 adaptation by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Presbrey.

Film

  • Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film), a silent adaptation starring John Barrymore and Evelyn Brent
  • Raffles (1930 film), a sound adaptation starring Ronald Colman
  • Raffles (1939 film), another adaptation, starring David Niven
  • Raffles (1958 film), a 1958 Mexican crime film
  • Raffles (TV series), a 1977 television adaptation starring Anthony Valentine

People

  • Raffles (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
  • Raffles, nickname of Frank Boucher (1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive

Places

  • Raffles, Cumbria, a suburb of Carlisle, United Kingdom
  • Raffles Bay, Northern Territory, Australia
  • Raffles Island, Semersooq, Greenland

Animals

  • Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion
  • Raffles's malkoha (Rhinortha chlorophaea), a species of cuckoo

Business

  • Raffles (cigarette), a cigarette brand made by Philip Morris, discontinued in 2011
  • Raffles City (disambiguation), the name of several building complexes in major cities
  • Raffles Hotel (disambiguation), the name of several luxury hotels in major cities

Education

  • Raffles Christian School, in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India

Other

  • Raffles v Wichelhaus [1864] EWHC Exch J19, a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law
  • Raffles Haw, a fictional character in The Doings of Raffles Haw, a 1891 moralistic story by A. Conan Doyle
  • "Raffles", a 1984 episode of the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!
  • Raffles, variant name of Inside Outing, a video game released in the late 1980s

See also

  • Raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
  • Ruffle (disambiguation)