We report for the first time the laser operation of a tunable Ti:sapphire laser pumped by the third-order Raman laser of the XeCl/H2 system at 499 nm with 60 ns duration. The slope efficiency is 59% for this laser operation, producing pulses of 20 ns duration. The highest energy conversion efficiency is 42% with an output energy of 1.2 mJ. The tuning range for a single set of cavity mirrors is 680~834 nm and is limited by the mirror reflectivity.