Ripley (name)

Ripley is both a surname and a given name.

People bearing it include:

As surname

• Andy Ripley (footballer)
• George Ripley (alchemist) (ca. 1415–1490), English alchemist
• Thomas Ripley (architect) (1686–1758), English architect
• Dorothy Ripley (1767–1832), British missionary
• Eleazer Ripley (1782–1839) American general
• James Wolfe Ripley (1794–1870), American general
• George Ripley (transcendentalist) (1802–1880), American social reformer
• Roswell Ripley (1823–1887), American general
• Edward H. Ripley (1829–1915) American general and businessman
• Henry A. Ripley (1842-1926), American politician
• Henry J. Ripley (1798-1875), biblical scholar
• Martha Ripley (1843–1912), American physician
• Edward Payson Ripley (1845–1920), American railroad executive
• John Ripley (1867–1933), British soldier
• William Z. Ripley (1867–1941), American economist and racial theorist
• Robert Ripley (1890–1949), American entrepreneur, amateur anthropologist
• Arthur Ripley (1897–1961), American screenwriter
• Gladys Ripley (1908–1955), British singer
• Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001), American ornithologist
• Alexandra Ripley (1934–2004), American writer
• John Ripley (USMC) (1939–2008), American Marine
• Andy Ripley (born 1947), English rugby player
• Marilyn Annette Ripley (born 1948), British singer Twinkle
• Brian Ripley (born 1952), British statistician
• Allen Ripley (born 1952), American baseball player
• Alice Ripley (born 1963), American actress
• Fay Ripley (born 1966), British actress
• Stuart Ripley (born 1967), English football player
• Ellen Ripley, fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series

As given name

• Ripley P. Bullen (1902–1976), American archaeologist and academic
• Ripley Hitchcock (1857–1918), American editor
• Ripley Rand (born c. 1970), American jurist