Ripley (name)

Ripley is both a surname and a unisex given name.

People bearing it include:

Given name

 * Ripley P. Bullen (1902–1976), American archaeologist and academic
 * Ripley Hitchcock (1857–1918), American editor
 * Ripley Parker (born 2000), daughter of Thandiwe Newton and Oliver Parker
 * Ripley Rand (born c. 1970), American jurist
 * Ripley Chan (born 2011), Australian Actor and Model

Surname

 * Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), American writer
 * Alice Ripley (born 1963), American actress
 * Allen Ripley (1952–2014), American baseball player
 * Amanda Ripley, American journalist and author
 * Andy Ripley (footballer) (born 1975), English footballer
 * Andy Ripley (1947–2010), English rugby player
 * Arthur Ripley (1897–1961), American screenwriter
 * Brian Ripley (born 1952), British statistician
 * Dorothy Ripley (1767–1832), British missionary
 * Edward H. Ripley (1829–1915), American general and businessman
 * Edward Payson Ripley (1845–1920), American railroad executive
 * Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (1782–1839), American general and politician
 * Fay Ripley (born 1966), British actress
 * George Ripley (alchemist) (ca. 1415–1490), English alchemist
 * George Ripley (transcendentalist) (1802–1880), American social reformer
 * Gladys Ripley (1908–1955), British singer
 * Heather Ripley (born 1959), actress
 * Sir Henry William Ripley (1813-1882), British politician and philanthropist
 * Henry A. Ripley (1842–1926), American politician
 * Henry J. Ripley (1798–1875), biblical scholar
 * James Wolfe Ripley (1794–1870), American general
 * John Ripley (1867–1933), British soldier
 * John Ripley (USMC) (1939–2008), American Marine
 * Lynn Ripley (1948–2015), birth name of English singer-songwriter Twinkle
 * Martha Ripley (1843–1912), American physician
 * Robert Ripley (1890–1949), American entrepreneur, amateur anthropologist
 * Roswell Ripley (1823–1887), American general
 * Sarah Bradford Ripley (1793–1867), American scholar
 * Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001), American ornithologist
 * Steve Ripley (1950–2019), American singer-songwriter, frontman of the country rock band The Tractors
 * Stuart Ripley (born 1967), English football player
 * Thomas Ripley (architect) (1686–1758), English architect
 * William Z. Ripley (1867–1941), American economist and racial theorist

Stage names

 * Rhea Ripley, ring name of Australian professional wrestler Demi Bennett (born 1996)

Fictional characters

 * Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and the protagonist of the video game Alien: Isolation
 * Cyd Ripley, from Best Friends Whenever
 * Ellen Ripley, the protagonist of the Alien film series
 * Justin Ripley, a detective sargeant and John Luther's loyal right-hand man in the television series Luther
 * The Ripley, fictional alien viruses in Stephen King's novel and film Dreamcatcher
 * Tom Ripley, in The Talented Mr. Ripley and other novels and films
 * Sailor Ripley, ex-con lead from the film Wild at Heart by David Lynch

Anthropomorphized things

 * SpaceX Ripley, the instrumented mannequin aboard the first ISS space station SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule test flight Crew Dragon Demo-1