People
- Jack the Ripper, a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer (or killers) active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888
- The Yorkshire Ripper, the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who killed thirteen women in Yorkshire during the 1970s
- The Rostov Ripper, the serial killer Andrei Chikatilo
- Brandon Vedas, a man who died of a drug overdose on IRC
- Tim "Ripper" Owens, a heavy metal singer
- "Joel the Ripper", a nickname given to serial killer Joel Rifkin
- 'The Ripper' Paul Burchill, a professional wrestler based on Jack the Ripper
- Kirk "The Ripper" Hammett, Kirk Hammett is lead guitarist in the heavy metalband Metallica
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