Modern Times
- Movies, such as Rocky, Citizen Kane, My Fair Lady, Scarface, The Pursuit of Happyness, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush, Goodfellas, The Blind Side, Guru, Slumdog Millionaire, and Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story.
- Video games such as Rags to Riches, a 1985 computer game released for the Commodore 64, or Grand Theft Auto: IV, wherein the character is a poor Serbian immigrant who rises up in the criminal empire.
- Game shows like The Price Is Right, Queen for a Day, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Reality television shows such as American Idol, The X Factor and Joe Millionaire.
- Rags to Riches (TV series).
- "Rags to Riches" (song), from 1953, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, popularized by Tony Bennett.
- Rags to Riches, a 1981 romance novel by Joanne Kaye (Rachel Cosgrove Payes)
- Guns and Roses' song Paradise City features the term on its lyrics.
- Rags to Riches (comic) a comic book by Four Color Comics Edition #356
- A term used in many team sports when a team goes from a poor finishing position one season to a strong finishing position the following season.
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