Ripon is a small cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England. As a historic Yorkshire city, Ripon had a population of 15,922 at the 2001 census, making it the fourth smallest city in England after Wells, Ely and the City of London (in the rest of the United Kingdom, St David's, Bangor, and Armagh are also smaller).

Ripon was a constituency sending members to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983, centred on the town of Ripon in North Yorkshire.