Ripon (disambiguation)
Ripon is a city in North Yorkshire, England.
Ripon may also refer to:
Places
- Canada
- United States
- Africa
- Ripon Falls, natural outlet for Lake Victoria, formerly considered the source of the river Nile (existed till 1954)
- Australia
- Electoral district of Ripon, an electoral district in Victoria
Transportation
- Blackburn Ripon, an aircraft
- HMS Rippon, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy, and another named HMS Ripon
- PS Ripon, a 19th-century paddlesteamer
- SS Ripon, a 20th-century merchant ship
Other uses
- Ripon Building, a building in Chennai
- Ripon College (disambiguation), several
- Ripon Society, a centrist Republican think tank
- George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (Lord Ripon), Viceroy of India
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See also
- Rippon (disambiguation)
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