Robert Ripley

Robert Ripley
Ripley in 1940
Born	(1890-02-22)February 22, 1890 Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Died	May 27, 1949(1949-05-27) (aged 59) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Oddfellows Lawn Cemetery, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Occupations	Cartoonist entrepreneur curator anthropologist
Years active	1920s–1949
Known for	Creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Board member of	Ripley Entertainment
Spouse	Beatrice Roberts ​ ​ (m. 1919; div. 1926)​

LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949)^[1] 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.