Ripper or The Ripper may refer to:

People

Ripper (surname) Ripper is the surname of: * Eric Ripper (born 1951), Australian retired politician * Georgie Ripper (born 1977), English children's book illustrator * João Guilherme Ripper (born 1959), Brazilian composer, conductor and academic * Michael Rippe ...

Paul Burchill Paul Birchall (born 8 October 1979), better known by his ring name Paul Burchill, is an English retired professional wrestler best known for his time with WWE. Prior to joining WWE, Burchill wrestled for the Frontier Wrestling Alliance and other ...

, ring name "The Ripper", a professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper *

Kirk Hammett Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Before joining Metallica, he formed and named the band Exodus. In 2003, ...

, nicknamed "The Ripper", the lead guitarist in the heavy metal band Metallica *

Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer wa ...

, 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 Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens (born September 13, 1967) is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with KK's Priest, Spirits of Fire, the Three Tremors and A New Revenge. He first gained attention as the lead singer of Judas Priest ...

, a heavy metal singer *

Psicosis II Juan Ebodio Gonzalez (born February 22, 1967) is a Mexican ''Luchador'' '' enmascarado'' better known under the ring name Psicosis. Gonzalez was the second wrestler to work as Psicosis, given the ring character by Asistencia Asesoría y Administr ...

, a Mexican ''Luchador enmascarado'' who was renamed Psyco Ripper and then Ripper * Terry "The Ripper" Rivera, a professional wrestler from

All-Star Wrestling All Star Wrestling (ASW) is a British professional wrestling promotion operated by Brian Dixon and based in Birkenhead, England. Founded as Wrestling Enterprises of Birkenhead in October 1970, it has also been known over the years as All Star P ...

Danny Rolling Daniel Harold Rolling (May 26, 1954 – October 25, 2006), known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer. He murdered five students in Gainesville, Florida, over four days in August 1990. Rolling later confessed to raping severa ...

, serial killer known as the "Gainesville Ripper" *

Peter Sutcliffe Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020) was an English serial killer who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper (an allusion to Jack the Ripper) by the press. Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting t ...

, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer active in Yorkshire from 1975–1980 *

Brandon Vedas Brandon Carl Vedas (April 21, 1981 – January 12, 2003), also known by his nickname ripper on IRC, was an American computer enthusiast, recreational drug user and member of the Shroomery.org community who died of a multiple drug overdose while ...

, 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 ''Last Action Hero'' is a 1993 American fantasy action comedy film directed and produced by John McTiernan and co-written by Shane Black and David Arnott. It is a satire of the action genre and associated clichés, containing several parodies ...

'' *

Rupert Giles Rupert Giles is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. The character is portrayed by Anthony Stewart Head. He serves as Buffy Summers' mentor and surrogate father figure. The characte ...

, a major character from the TV series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' also known as "Ripper" * General

Jack D. Ripper ''Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'', known simply and more commonly as ''Dr. Strangelove'', is a 1964 black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and t ...

, in the movie ''Dr. Strangelove'', played by Sterling Hayden * Rippers, horizontally flying bug-like creatures belonging to the

Metroid is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo. The player controls the bounty hunter Samus Aran, who protects the galaxy from Space Pirate (Metroid), Space Pirates and other malevolent forces and their attempts to harness the powe ...

series * Rippers, a race of mutant kangaroo–human hybrids in the graphic novel and film ''

Tank Girl ''Tank Girl'' is a British comic book character created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, and first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline''. After a period of intense popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, ...

'' *

Stefan Salvatore Stefan Salvatore is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists from L. J. Smith's novel series ''The Vampire Diaries''. He is portrayed by Paul Wesley in the television series CW's ''The Vampire Diaries'' and ''The Originals''. ...

, 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 Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

* ''Ripper'', the fourth novel in

Michael Slade Michael Slade (born 1947, in Lethbridge, Alberta) is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity. Background Before Clarke entered law schoo ...

's long-running ''Special X'' series

Music

* Ripper, a Houston heavy metal band, and recording artists for

Black Widow Records Black Widow Records is an Italian record label founded in Genoa in 1990 and taking its name from the British progressive rock band Black Widow. It was originally a rarities shop focusing on collectable records and reissues. After a few years t ...

* "The Ripper" (song), a song by Judas Priest, from the album ''Sad Wings of Destiny''

Devices

* Ripper,

slater A slater, or slate mason, is a tradesperson who covers buildings with slate. Tools of the trade The various tools of the slater's trade are all drop-forged. The slater's hammer is forged in one single piece, from crucible-cast steel, and ha ...

'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 A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous track ...

used to break up hard soil or pavement *

CD ripper A CD ripper, CD grabber, or CD extractor is software that ripping, rips raw digital audio in Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) format tracks on a compact disc to standard computer sound files, such as WAV or MP3. A more formal term used for t ...

, a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format computer file *

DVD ripper Ripping is extracting all or parts of digital content from a container. Originally, it meant to rip music out of Commodore 64 games. Later, the term was used to extract WAV or MP3 format files from digital audio CDs, but got applied as well to ...

, a computer application that copies the contents of a DVD to a hard disk * A type of small cordless

chainsaw A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable gasoline-, electric-, or battery-powered saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar. It is used in activities such as tree felling, limbing, bucking, pruning, ...

, used by the

Enclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...

and

Brotherhood of Steel The Brotherhood of Steel is a fictional organization from the post-apocalyptic ''Fallout'' video game franchise. The Brotherhood collects and preserves technology, but they are not known for sharing their knowledge, even if doing so would impro ...

in the

Fallout series ''Fallout'' is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games—and later action role-playing games—created by Interplay Entertainment. The series is set during the 21st, 22nd and 23rd centuries, and its atompunk retrofuturistic settin ...

Sports

Grand Rapids (baseball team) The Grand Rapids Baseball Club was a minor league baseball team based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA that played under several different names at various times between 1883 and 1951. They played mostly in the Central League but also in various ot ...

, known as the Rippers in 1894 and 1896 *

London Rippers The London Rippers were a professional baseball team based in London, Ontario, in Canada. The Rippers were a member of the Frontier League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. They played their home games at Labatt Park, and were th ...

, a former professional baseball team based in London, Ontario, Canada

Other uses

Ripper (food) Ripper is the slang term for a type of hot dog. The name is derived from a hot dog which is deep fried in oil, which sometimes causes the casing to burst, or "rip". "Rippers" were featured in the Travel Channel special "Deep Fried Paradise"D'Age ...

, a variety of hot dog served in New Jersey * ''Ripper'' (racquet), a racquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods * Ripper, a colloquialism for

flatulence Flatulence, in humans, is the expulsion of gas from the intestines via the anus, commonly referred to as farting. "Flatus" is the medical word for gas generated in the stomach or bowels. A proportion of intestinal gas may be swallowed environm ...

* Gibson Ripper, a model of electric bass guitar * Operation Ripper, a United Nations Korean War operation *

Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER) In machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial int ...

, a propositional rule learner * A type of

for breaking a ground surface