Ripper

Ripper may refer to:

• 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 drug overdose on IRC
• Tim "Ripper" Owens, Heavy Metal singer
• 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 harddisk
• "Joel the Ripper", nickname given to serial killer Joel Rifkin
• 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
• Ripper (hot dog), a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey,
• Ripper (racquet), a patented raquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods
• A well-known skateboard graphic from Powell Peralta
• A colloquialism for flatulence
• Ripper (band), a horror metal band from Houston, Texas USA (1977-Present) and recording artists for Black Widow Records.

In fiction

• 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 (Slade), 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 tv 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/movie 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
• Ripper (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Ripper an Australian slang term meaning great or good.
• Ripper a type of miniature chainsaw weapon in the game Fallout 3
• 'The Ripper' Paul Burchill, professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper
• General Jack D. Ripper, a character in the movie Dr. Strangelove, played by Sterling Hayden