# Ripper

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, 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 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), 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
* 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 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), 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