Raffles

Raffles may refer to:

People

• Sir Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), a British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819.

Schools

• Raffles College of Design and Commerce, a private education provider in Sydney, Australia
• Raffles Girls' Primary School, an all-girls primary school in Singapore
• Raffles Girls' School (Secondary), an all-girls secondary school in Singapore
• Raffles Institution (Secondary), the all-boys secondary section of the oldest school in Singapore
• Raffles Institution (Junior College), the junior college section of the oldest school in Singapore
• National University of Singapore, which used to be called Raffles College
• Raffles International Christian School, a school in Indonesia

Business

• Raffles City, a shopping mall in Singapore
  • Raffles City Shanghai, in China.
• The Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after Stamford Raffles
• Raffles International, a chain of hotels, owner of the Raffles Hotel
• Raffles (cigarette), a cigarette brand made by Philip Morris

Fiction

• A. J. Raffles, a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung
  • Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, silent film of original stage play starring John Barrymore
  • Raffles (1925 film), a silent adaptation starring House Peters
  • Raffles (1930 film), a sound adaption starring Ronald Colman
  • The Return of Raffles, a 1933 film starring George Barraud
  • Raffles (1939 film), another adaptation, starring David Niven
  • Raffles (TV series) a 1977 television adaptation starring Anthony Valentine
• Raffles, Gentleman Thug, a comic strip and its main character, a parody of A. J. Raffles
• Raffles (Lord Lister), a fictional German pulp hero originally with similarities to A. J. Raffles
• Raffles Haw, a fictional character in a moralistic story by A. Conan Doyle
• Raffles Hotel, a book by Ryu Murakami that takes place in the Raffles Hotel
• "Raffles", an episode of the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!

Geography

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

Other uses

• The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at the National University of Singapore
• The plural of raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
• Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion
• Rafflesia, a genus of parasitic plants
  • Rafflesia arnoldii, commonly called "corpse flower"