Famous People with Name Ripley

Sidney Dillon Ripley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sidney Dillon Ripley: was a noted American ornithologist and leader in wildlife conservation. He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984.Ripley was born in New York City and studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1936 he graduated with a B.A. from Yale University. His great-grandfather, Sidney Dillon, was President of the Union Pacific Railroad. A visit to India at age 13, along with his sister, included a walking tour into Ladakh and western Tibet.

Gladys Ripley            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Gladys Ripley: was a British contralto. She was born in Forest Gate, Essex, on 9 July 1908, the daughter of Alfred and Amy Ripley. Gladys Ripley was educated at St. Edmund Roman Catholic School, East Ham, and at Clark’s Business College.In 1925, she gave her first important concert, singing Elijah at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Albert Coates). Ripley broadcast continually from 1926 in a variety of programmes: opera, oratorio, musical plays, and light music. She sang with all the leading orchestras under conductors including Adrian Boult, Malcolm Sargent, Thomas Beecham, Charles Thornton Lofthouse, Sergei Koussevitzky, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and Victor de Sabata.

Lynn Annette Ripley            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Lynn Annette Ripley: was an English singer-songwriter, primarily in the 1960s. Twinkle's most famous songs were "Terry" and "Golden Lights".In concept "Terry" bore some similarities to the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" (1964), both teenage tragedy songs about a girl lamenting the death of her daredevil boyfriend in a motorcycle crash. The record caused a furore, accusations of bad taste leading to its ban from the BBC.[2] Only 16 at the time, Twinkle owed her rapid entry into the recording studio to her then boyfriend, Dec Cluskey, of the popular vocal group The Bachelors, who passed on her demo to his manager.[2] Jimmy Page was among the high profile session musicians who played on "Terry".[2]

David Ripley            Origin/Culture/Country: English

David Ripley: is a former England cricketer who played for Northamptonshire in county cricket from 1984-2001. He took 678 catches and 85 stumpings. In his 307 first class games he scored 8693 runs at 28.40 with nine centuries. Ripley was appointed vice-captain of North

Eleazer Wheelock Ripley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eleazer Wheelock Ripley: was a graduate of Dartmouth College, a distinguished Brigadier General in the War of 1812, and a U. S. Representative from Louisiana from 1835 until 1839.Early in 1814, Ripley was promoted to Brigadier General. (Lieutenant Colonel James Miller, late of th