Raffles may refer to:

People

*Sir

Stamford Raffles Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman who served as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816, and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. He is ...

(1781–1826), British statesman, Lieutenant Governor of Java and founder of Singapore in 1819 *

Thomas Raffles Thomas Raffles (1788–1863) was an English Congregational minister, known as a dominant nonconformist figure at the Great George Street Congregational Church in Liverpool, and as an abolitionist and historian. Early life The only son of Willi ...

(1788–1863), English Congregational minister *

Frank Boucher François Xavier Boucher (October 7, 1901 – December 12, 1977) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive. Boucher played the forward position for the Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) a ...

(1901–1977), Canadian ice hockey player and executive nicknamed "Raffles"

Schools

Raffles Girls' Primary School This is a list of primary schools in Singapore. Children typically start their primary education in the year they turn seven. Primary education lasts six years, and is compulsory for all Singapore citizens. Primary schools in Singapore are clas ...

, an all-girls primary school in Singapore *

Raffles Girls' School Raffles Girls' School (RGS) is an independent girls' secondary school located in Braddell, Singapore. Established in 1879, it is one of the oldest schools in Singapore. RGS, together with its affiliated school Raffles Institution, offers a six- ...

, an all-girls secondary school in Singapore *

Raffles Institution Raffles Institution (RI) is an independent educational institution in Singapore. Founded in 1823, it is the oldest school in the country. It provides secondary education for boys only from Year 1 to Year 4, and pre-university education for both ...

, a pre-tertiary educational institution in Singapore *

Raffles Junior College The Raffles Junior College (RJC) was a junior college in Singapore offering pre-university education. The college was founded in 1982, following a separation from the pre-university section of Raffles Institution (RI). Raffles Junior College ...

, the formerly independent junior college affiliate of Raffles Institution *

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...

, formerly known as Raffles College * Raffles University, Neemrana, Rajasthan, India * Raffles International Christian School, a school in Indonesia

Business

Raffles City Singapore Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore. Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road, Beach Road, Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road, it houses two hot ...

, a shopping mall *

Raffles City Shanghai Raffles City Shanghai () is a skyscraper in Shanghai, China. It is 222 m high, has 49 stories and was completed in 2003. Its base contains a shopping mall, with the tower devoted to office space. See also * List of tallest buildings in Shanghai ...

, China * Raffles City Chongqing, China *

Raffles Hotel Raffles Hotel is a British colonial-style luxury hotel in Singapore. It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers, in 1887. The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singap ...

in Singapore, named after Stamford Raffles *

Raffles Hotels & Resorts Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore. The company started to develop internationally in the late 1990s. From 2015, Raffles is part of Accor. ...

, a chain of luxury hotels *

Fairmont Raffles Hotels International FRHI Hotels & Resorts (previously known as Fairmont Raffles Hotels International) is a global hotel management company that is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. FRHI is the parent company that manages three brands of hotels: Fairmont, Raffles ...

, a hotel management company and owner of the Raffles Hotel *

Raffles (cigarette) Raffles (also known as Players in the United States; now Virginia S by Raffles) was a British brand of cigarettes which was owned and manufactured by Philip Morris USA in the U.S. and by Philip Morris International outside of the U.S. History I ...

, a cigarette brand made by Philip Morris

Fiction

A. J. Raffles Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, an inversion of Holmeshe is a "gentle ...

, a fictional gentleman thief in a series of books by E. W. Hornung ** ''Raffles'' (1930 film), a sound adaption 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) Raffles (also known as Lord Lister) is a fictional character who first appeared in a German pulp magazine entitled "Lord Lister, genannt Raffles, der Meisterdieb" ("Lord Lister, called Raffles, the master thief") published in 1908, written by Kurt ...

, 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! ''Hi-de-Hi!'' is a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988. Set in 1959 and 1960 in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, the show was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote ''Dad's Army'' and ...

Places

Raffles, Cumbria Raffles or the Raffles Estate is a suburb of Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom. The estate consists mainly of council built and Housing association properties, and in 1994 had a population of 5,800. Nearby areas include Belle Vue, Newtown, San ...

, a suburb of Carlisle, United Kingdom *

Raffles Bay Raffles Bay is a bay on the northern coast of the Cobourg Peninsula of the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia. It was named in 1818 by explorer Phillip Parker King after Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore. It is a ...

, Northern Territory, Australia *

Raffles Island Raffles Island is an uninhabited island located approximately 4 km to east of the Sparrebugt bay, Liverpool Land, about 20 km north-east of the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland in the Scoresby Sund area. Description It was named b ...

, Semersooq, Greenland

Other uses

*The plural of

raffle A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number. The drawn tickets are chec ...

, a game of chance involving numbered tickets *

Raffles's malkoha Raffles's malkoha (''Rhinortha chlorophaea'') is a species of cuckoo (family Cuculidae). It was formerly often placed in ''Phaenicophaeus'' with the other malkohas, but it is a rather distinct species, with several autapomorphies and sexual dimor ...

(''Rhinortha chlorophaea''), a species of cuckoo *

Raffles (horse) Raffles was an Arabian stallion foaled in 1926 and imported to the United States by Roger Selby in 1932. Raffles was bred by Lady Wentworth of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. Background Raffles was a son of the Crabbet foundation sire Skowronek, ou ...

, a famous Arabian horse stallion *The

Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) ( Chinese: 李光前自然历史博物馆) is a museum of natural history at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore. It is named after Lee Kong Chian, a prominent Chinese ...

, at the National University of Singapore * ''Raffles'' (video game), a 1991 video game released on Atari ST and Amiga *''

Raffles v Wichelhaus ''Raffles v Wichelhaus'' [1864EWHC Exch J19 often called "The ''Peerless''" case, is a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law. The case established that where there is latent ambiguity as to an essential element of the contract, ...

'' [1864] EWHC Exch J19, a leading case on mutual mistake in English contract law {{disambiguation, surname, geo