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'''Ripper'''  or '''The Ripper''' may refer to:

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== 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 [[NWA All-Star Wrestling#Alumni|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

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

===Games===
* [[Ripper (video game)|''Ripper'' (video game)]], a computer game released in 1996
* [[The Ripper (video game)|''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#Ripper|bulldozer]] used to break up hard soil or pavement
* [[CD ripper]], software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file
* [[DVD ripper]], software that copies the contents of a DVD to a hard disk

==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)|''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 machine learning rule learner

== See also ==
* [[Rip (disambiguation)]]
* [[RIP (disambiguation)]]

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