• Ripper is a proposed spin-off series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles. As of 2005, nothing is certain about whether the series will ever be made.
• Ripper was also the online alias of Brandon Vedas, who died due to a drug overdose. Vedas was encouraged to consume more drugs by people in a chatroom who were watching him via his webcam.
• Ripper is the name of Aunt Marge's bulldog in the fictional Harry Potter series.
• A CD ripper is a piece of software that reads compact discs and extracts audio data and stores it in an audio format file.
• A ripper is a piece of additional heavy equipment on the rear of a bulldozer or grader to break up pavement (roads) or rocky soil.

See also:

• Jack the Ripper (serial killer)
• Yorkshire Ripper (serial killer)
• John the Ripper (password-cracking tool)
• bulldozer