Ripper may refer to:

People [link]

• Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888
• The Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who killed thirteen women in Yorkshire during the 1970s
• The Rostov Ripper, the serial killer Andrei Chikatilo
• Brandon Vedas, a man who died of a drug overdose on IRC
• Tim "Ripper" Owens, a heavy metal singer
• "Joel the Ripper", a nickname given to serial killer Joel Rifkin
• 'The Ripper' Paul Burchill, a professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper

In fiction [link]

• Ripper (video game), a computer game released in 1996 by Take-Two Interactive
• Ripper (Harry Potter), the name of Aunt Marge's bulldog in the Harry Potter series of novels
• Ripper, the fourth novel in Michael Slade's long-running Special X series
• Ripper (film), a 2001 horror film, starring A. J. Cook and Bruce Payne
• Ripper (television), a proposed spin-off series or made-for-TV movie from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Rupert Giles, a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer who was also known as "Ripper"
• Rippers, a type of creature in the Metroid video game franchise
• A race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel and film Tank Girl
• 'Ripper', the villain played by Tom Noonan in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero
• The RC-DS Remote Control Disc, or "Ripper", a weaponized power tool in the video game Dead Space' (video game)
• Ripper (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Ripper, a type of miniature chainsaw weapon in the game Fallout 3
• General Jack D. Ripper, a character in the movie Dr. Strangelove, played by Sterling Hayden

Devices [link]

• CD ripper, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file
• DVD ripper, a computer application that copies the contents of a DVD to a hard disk
• John the Ripper, a password cracking tool
• A slater's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate
• A moveable hard steel hook on the back of a bulldozer used to break up hard soil or pavement

Other [link]

• Ripper (hot dog), a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey
• Ripper (racquet), a patented racquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods
• Ripper - Heavy metal band, and recording artists for Black Widow Records from Houston, Texas
• A well-known skateboard graphic from Powell Peralta
• A colloquialism for flatulence

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