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 Kirk Lee Hammett (born November 18, 1962) is an American musician who has been the lead guitarist of heavy metal band Metallica since 1983. Prior to joining Metallica, he co-formed the thrash metal band Exodus in 1979. In 2023, Hammett, along ...

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

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

, 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 "The Tim Ripper Monster Energy Big Band". He first gained attention as the ...

, a heavy metal singer *

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

, 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 Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He was du ...

, 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 ''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 cha ...

, 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 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely ...

, 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 Pirates and other malevolent forces and their attempts to harness the power of the parasitic M ...

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

Tank Girl Tank Girl is a British comic created by Alan Martin (writer), Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It first appeared in print in 1988 in the British comics magazine ''Deadline (magazine), Deadline'', and then in the solo comic book series ''Tank Girl' ...

'' *

Stefan Salvatore Stefan Salvatore, referred to in books as Stefano Salvatore, is a fictional character and one of the two main protagonists from L. J. Smith (author), L. J. Smith's novel series ''The Vampire Diaries (novel series), The Vampire Diaries''. He is po ...

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

* ''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 ''Sad Wings of Destiny'' is the second studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 26 March 1976 by Gull Records. It is considered the album on which Judas Priest consolidated their sound and image, and songs from it suc ...

Devices

* Ripper,

slater A slater, or slate mason, is a tradesperson who covers buildings with slate. Tools used 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 has a lea ...

'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 tractor equipped with a metal #Blade, blade at the front for pushing material (soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock) during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous tracks, ...

used to break up hard soil or pavement *

CD ripper A CD ripper is software that ripping, extracts raw digital audio in Compact Disc Digital Audio format tracks on a compact disc to standard computer sound files, such as WAV or MP3. A more formal term used for the process of ripping audio CDs i ...

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

DVD ripper Ripping is the extraction of digital content from a container, such as a CD, onto a new digital location. Originally, the term meant to rip music from Commodore 64 games. Later, the term was applied to ripping WAV or MP3 files from digital aud ...

, 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), a racquetball racquet from Wilson Sporting Goods * Ripper, a colloquialism for

flatulence Flatulence is the expulsion of gas from the Gastrointestinal tract, 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 swal ...

* Gibson Ripper, a model of electric bass guitar *

Operation Ripper Operation Ripper, also known as the Fourth Battle of Seoul, was a United Nations (UN) military operation conceived by the US Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway, during the Korean War. The operation was intended to destroy as much as possib ...

, a United Nations Korean War operation * Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER), a propositional machine learning rule learner