Robert L. Ripley

LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.

Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. He also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings.

Birth and Death Data: Born Santa Rosa (city in and county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States), Died May 27, 1949 (New York City (most populous city in the United States) )

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1934

Roles Represented in DAHR: speaker

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Recordings

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor BS-82424 10-in. 4/19/1934 Believe it or not talk by Ripley Robert L. Ripley Talk speaker  
Victor LBS-82425 10-in. (33-1/3 rpm) 4/19/1934 Believe it or not talk by Ripley Robert L. Ripley Talk speaker  

Citation

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Ripley, Robert L.. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 24, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102663.

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