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Raffles may refer to:

  • A.J. Raffles, the gentleman-amateur cricketer and cracksman created by E.W Hornung towards the end of the nineteenth century
  • A.J. Raffles, a two-fisted hero based on Hornung's creation (intended to compete in the popular magazines of the time with The Saint) whose adventures were chronicled in the 1930s and early 1940s by Barry Perowne, and set contemporaneously
  • A.J. Raffles, a further pastiche of Hornung's original creation, developed by Barry Perowne in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s, this time set around the turn of the twentieth century. Identified as a separate character, not merely an alternative take on the original, by Jon L. Breen in his parody Ruffles versus Ruffles
  • John C. Raffles/Lord Lister/John C. Sinclair, a pastiche of Hornung's creation pirated by various publishers in Europe and around the world from 1908 onwards
  • Raffles Haw, the protagonist of Arthur Conan Doyle's steampunk novel The Doings of Raffles Haw
  • Raffles/Praggles/Raggles, Sexton Blake's office boy in issues of The Marvel Library published in in 1901 and 1902
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