Raffles

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