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Ripley may refer to:
[edit] People
Ripley is the surname of:
- Andy Ripley, English rugby union player
- Brian D. Ripley, statistician associated with the R programming language
- General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (1782-1839), graduate of Dartmouth College and officer in the War of 1812
- George Ripley (alchemist), English alchemist
- George Ripley (transcendentalist), American social reformer
- James Wolfe Ripley, Civil War Union general
- John Ripley, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War I
- John Ripley (USMC), United States Marine Corps recipient of the Navy Cross for actions during the Vietnam War
- Martha Ripley (1843-1912), American physician, founder of Minneapolis Maternity Hospital
- Robert Ripley, an American cartoonist and entrepreneur, creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Roswell S. Ripley, Civil War Confederate general and nephew of James W. Ripley
- Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist
- Thomas Ripley (architect) (1686-1758), English architect
- William Z. Ripley (1867-1941), American economist and anthropologist
[edit] Places
[edit] Australia
[edit] Canada
[edit] England
[edit] United States
- Ripley, California
- Ripley, Illinois
- Ripley, Maine
- Ripley, Michigan
- Ripley, Mississippi
- Ripley, New York
- Ripley, Ohio
- Ripley, Oklahoma
- Ripley, Tennessee
- Ripley, West Virginia
- Ripley County, Indiana
- Ripley County, Missouri
- Ripley Township, Dodge County, Minnesota
- Ripley Township, Morrison County, Minnesota
[edit] Entertainment
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- The Ripley, fictional parasitic, alien macro viruses in the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher
- Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, a fictional character in the Alien movie series
- Tom Ripley, a fictional character in several books by Patricia Highsmith (the "Ripliad"), as well as in several film adaptations of them
