Ripper

Ripper or The Ripper may refer to:

People

 * Ripper (surname)
 * Paul Burchill, ring name "The Ripper", a professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper
 * Kirk Hammett, nicknamed "The Ripper", the lead guitarist in the heavy metal band Metallica
 * Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym for an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in London in the latter half of 1888
 * Ripper Jayanandan (born 1968), Indian serial killer
 * Tim "Ripper" Owens, a heavy metal singer
 * Psicosis II, a Mexican Luchador enmascarado who was renamed Psyco Ripper and then Ripper
 * Terry "The Ripper" Rivera, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling
 * Danny Rolling, serial killer known as the "Gainesville Ripper"
 * Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer active in Yorkshire from 1975–1980
 * Brandon Vedas, nicknamed "Ripper", a man who died of a drug overdose on IRC

Fictional characters

 * Ripper (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
 * "Ripper", the villain in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Last Action Hero
 * Rupert Giles, a major character from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer also known as "Ripper"
 * General Jack D. Ripper, in the movie Dr. Strangelove, played by Sterling Hayden
 * Rippers, horizontally flying bug-like creatures belonging to the Metroid series
 * Rippers, a race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel and film Tank Girl
 * Stefan Salvatore, from The Vampire Diaries also known as "Ripper"

Film and television

 * Ripper (film), a 2001 Canadian-British slasher film
 * Ripper (Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff), a proposed TV series featuring the character Rupert Giles
 * The Ripper (TV series), a 2020 British docuseries about Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper
 * "Ripper" (The Outer Limits), a television episode

Games

 * Ripper (video game), a computer game released in 1996
 * The Ripper (video game), a video game cancelled in 2009

Literature

 * Ripper (El juego de Ripper), a novel by Isabel Allende
 * Ripper, the fourth novel in Michael Slade's long-running Special X series

Music

 * Ripper, a Houston heavy metal band, and recording artists for Black Widow Records
 * "The Ripper", a song by Judas Priest, from the album Sad Wings of Destiny

Devices

 * Ripper, slater's tool with a blade and a hook, used for removing broken slate
 * Ripper, a moveable hard steel hook on the back of a bulldozer used to break up hard soil or pavement
 * 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
 * A type of small cordless chainsaw, used by the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel in the Fallout series.

Sports

 * Grand Rapids (baseball team), known as the Rippers in 1894 and 1896
 * London Rippers, a former professional baseball team based in London, Ontario, Canada

Other uses

 * Ripper (food), a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey
 * Ripper (racquet), a racquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods
 * Ripper, a colloquialism for flatulence
 * Gibson Ripper, a model of electric bass guitar
 * Operation Ripper, a United Nations Korean War operation
 * Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER), a propositional rule learner
 * A type of bulldozer for breaking a ground surface