Ripley (name)

This article is about the personal name. For other uses, see Ripley (disambiguation).

Ripley

Pronunciation	/ˈripli/
Gender	Unisex
Language	English
Origin
Language	Old English
Word/name	Combination of Hrypa and lēah
Meaning	"woodland clearing"
Region of origin	England
Other names
Short form	Rip
Related names	Ridley, Shipley

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

Given name

• Ripley A. Arnold (1817–1853), United States Army major
• Ripley B. Weaver (1829–1900), American politician, raiser of stock animals and soldier
• Ripley Bee-Jones (born 2010), daughter of Jason Jones and Samantha Bee
• Ripley Hitchcock (1857–1918), American editor
• Ripley P. Bullen (1902–1976), American archaeologist and academic
• Ripley Parker (born 2000), English writer and daughter of Thandiwe Newton and Ol Parker
• Ripley Rader, American fashion designer
• Ripley Rand (born 1967), American jurist
• Ripley Sobo, American actress

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 (1947–2010), English rugby player
• Andy Ripley (footballer) (born 1975), English footballer
• 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
• Eliza McHatton Ripley (1832–1912), American civil war era author
• Fay Ripley (born 1966), British actress
• George Ripley (alchemist) (c. 1415–1490), English alchemist
• George Ripley (transcendentalist) (1802–1880), American social reformer
• Gladys Ripley (1908–1955), British singer
• Heather Ripley (born 1959), actress
• 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
• Sir Henry William Ripley (1813–1882), British politician and philanthropist
• 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
• Ripley Ryan, a supervillain from the Marvel Comics
• Sailor Ripley, ex-con lead from the film Wild at Heart by David Lynch
• 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

Anthropomorphized things

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