Raffles

Raffles may refer to:

Things associated with 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

Things associated with the fictional gentleman thief

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

Movies

• 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

• All pages with titles containing Raffles
• All pages with titles beginning with Raffles
• Raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
• Ruffle (disambiguation)