Ripley - Definition and Overview

Ripley may have several meanings. There are a number of places with that name:

• In the United Kingdom:
  • Ripley, Derbyshire, England
  • Ripley, Surrey, England
• In the United States:
  • 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

Ripley is also a surname:

• Brian Ripley, statistician associated with the R programming language
• Robert Ripley, is an American cartoonist and entrepreneur, creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!

• Thomas Ripley, is a fictional character in several books by Patricia Highsmith (the "Ripliad"), as well as in several film adaptations of them.
• Ellen Ripley, is a fictional character in the Alien movie series.

The Ripley are fictional parasitic alien macro viruses in the Stephen King novel and film Dreamcatcher