# Ripley (name)

Ripley is both a surname and a unisex given name.
People bearing it include:

## Given name

* Ripley A. Arnold (1817–1853), United States Army major
* Ripley P. Bullen (1902–1976), American archaeologist and academic
* Ripley Hitchcock (1857–1918), American editor
* Ripley Parker (born 2000), daughter of Thandiwe Newton and Oliver Parker
* Ripley Rand (born 1967), American jurist
* Ripley Rader, American fashion designer
* Ripley B. Weaver (1829–1900), American politician, raiser of stock animals and soldier

## Surname

* Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), American writer
* Alice Ripley (born 1963), American actress
* Allen Ripley (1952–2014), American baseball player
* Amanda Ripley, American journalist and author
* Andy Ripley (footballer) (born 1975), English footballer
* Andy Ripley (1947–2010), English rugby player
* Arthur Ripley (1897–1961), American screenwriter
* Brian Ripley (born 1952), British statistician
* Dorothy Ripley (1767–1832), British missionary
* Edward H. Ripley (1829–1915), American general and businessman
* Edward Payson Ripley (1845–1920), American railroad executive
* Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (1782–1839), American general and politician
* Fay Ripley (born 1966), British actress
* George Ripley (alchemist) (ca. 1415–1490), English alchemist
* George Ripley (transcendentalist) (1802–1880), American social reformer
* Gladys Ripley (1908–1955), British singer
* Heather Ripley (born 1959), actress
* Sir Henry William Ripley (1813-1882), British politician and philanthropist
* Henry A. Ripley (1842–1926), American politician
* Henry J. Ripley (1798–1875), biblical scholar
* James Wolfe Ripley (1794–1870), American general
* John Ripley (1867–1933), British soldier
* John Ripley (USMC) (1939–2008), American Marine
* Lynn Ripley (1948–2015), birth name of English singer-songwriter Twinkle
* Martha Ripley (1843–1912), American physician
* Robert Ripley (1890–1949), American entrepreneur, amateur anthropologist
* Roswell Ripley (1823–1887), American general
* Sarah Bradford Ripley (1793–1867), American scholar
* Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001), American ornithologist
* Steve Ripley (1950–2019), American singer-songwriter, frontman of the country rock band The Tractors
* Stuart Ripley (born 1967), English football player
* Thomas Ripley (architect) (1686–1758), English architect
* William Z. Ripley (1867–1941), American economist and racial theorist

## Stage names

* Rhea Ripley, ring name of Australian professional wrestler Demi Bennett (born 1996)

## Fictional characters

* Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and the protagonist of the video game Alien: Isolation
* Cyd Ripley, from Best Friends Whenever
* Ellen Ripley, the protagonist of the Alien film series
* Justin Ripley, a detective sargeant and John Luther's loyal right-hand man in the television series Luther
* The Ripley, fictional alien viruses in Stephen King's novel and film Dreamcatcher
* Tom Ripley, in The Talented Mr. Ripley and other novels and films
* Sailor Ripley, ex-con lead from the film Wild at Heart by David Lynch
* Ripley Ryan, fiction character Marvel Comics

## Anthropomorphized things

* SpaceX Ripley, the instrumented mannequin aboard the first ISS space station SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule test flight Crew Dragon Demo-1