Raffles (disambiguation)

Raffles (disambiguation)

Sir Stamford Raffles was a British statesman and founder of Singapore.

Raffles may also refer to:

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, an all-boys secondary school in Singapore
* Raffles Junior College, a junior college located in Singapore
* National University of Singapore, which used to be called Raffles College

In business:
* Raffles City shopping mall in Singapore
* The Raffles Hotel in Singapore, named after Stamford Raffles
* Raffles International, a chain of hotels, owner of the Raffles Hotel
* Raffles (cigarette), an economy brand made by Philip Morris

In fiction:
* A. J. Raffles, a fictional gentleman thief in series of books by E. W. Hornung
**"Raffles" (1930 film), an adaptation starring Ronald Colman
**"Raffles" (1939 film), another adaptation, featuring David Niven
**Raffles (TV series) a 1977 television adaptation of the series
**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 Hotel", a book by Ryu Murakami that takes place in the Raffles Hotel
* Raffles (play), a play starring Edmund Milton Holland (New York, 1903 to 1906)

Other uses:
* the plural of raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
* Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion


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