Raffles
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Raffles may refer to:
Animals
[edit]- Raffles (horse), a famous Arabian horse stallion
- Raffles's malkoha (Rhinortha chlorophaea), a species of cuckoo
Business
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Raffles Christian School, in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Raffles College, now part of the National University of Singapore
- 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
- Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India
Media
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- A. J. Raffles (character), a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung
- Raffles (character), a fictional German pulp hero, also known as Lord Lister, originally with similarities to A. J. Raffles
- Raffles Haw, a fictional character in The Doings of Raffles Haw, a 1891 moralistic story by A. Conan Doyle
- Raffles stories and adaptations, based on the fictional gentleman thief A. J. Raffles from a series of books by E. W. Hornung
Gaming
[edit]- Raffles, variant name of Inside Outing, a video game released in the late 1980s
Movies
[edit]All based on the fictional character A. J. Raffles
- 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
Television
[edit]- "Raffles", a 1984 episode of the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!
People
[edit]- Raffles, nickname of Frank Boucher (1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive
- Raffles (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
Places
[edit]- Raffles, Cumbria, a suburb of Carlisle, United Kingdom
- Raffles Bay, Northern Territory, Australia
- Raffles Island, Semersooq, Greenland
- Raffles Place, the centre of the Financial District of Singapore
Other uses
[edit]- 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 v Wichelhaus [1864] EWHC Exch J19, a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Raffles
- All pages with titles beginning with Raffles
- Raffle, a game of chance involving numbered tickets
- Ruffle (disambiguation)
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