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
* 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
* Ripper (copier), a person who is seriously and continuously involved in the ripping process
* 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

In fiction

* "Ripper" (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"