Raffles Explained

Raffles may refer to:

People

• Sir Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819
• Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), English Congregational minister
• Frank Boucher (1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive nicknamed "Raffles"

Schools

• Raffles Girls' Primary School, an all-girls primary school in Singapore
• Raffles Girls' School, an all-girls secondary school in Singapore
• Raffles Institution, a pre-tertiary educational institution in Singapore
• Raffles Junior College, the formerly independent junior college affiliate of Raffles Institution
• National University of Singapore, formerly known as Raffles College
• Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India
• Raffles International Christian School, a school in Indonesia

Business

• Raffles City Singapore, a shopping mall
• Raffles City Shanghai, China
• Raffles City Chongqing, China
• Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after Stamford Raffles
• Raffles Hotels & Resorts, a chain of luxury hotels
• Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, a hotel management company and owner of the Raffles Hotel
• Raffles (cigarette), a cigarette brand made by Philip Morris

Fiction

• A. J. Raffles (character), a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung
  • 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)
  • Raffles (TV series), a 1977 television adaptation starring Anthony Valentine
• Raffles (Lord Lister), a fictional German pulp hero originally with similarities to A. J. Raffles
• Raffles Haw, an 1891 fictional character in a moralistic story by A. Conan Doyle
• "Raffles", an episode of the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!

Places

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

Other uses

• The plural of raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
• Raffles's malkoha (Rhinortha chlorophaea), a species of cuckoo
• Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion
• The Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, at the National University of Singapore
• Raffles (video game), a 1991 video game released on Atari ST and Amiga
• Raffles v Wichelhaus [1864] EWHC Exch J19, a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law