Georges Ripert (22 April 1880 – 4 July 1958) was a lawyer who was briefly Secretary of State for Public Instruction and Youth in the Vichy Regime.

[2] On 6 September 1940 Ripert was named Secretary of State for Public Instruction and Youth, replacing Émile Mireaux.

[2] On 13 December 1940 Marshall Philippe Pétain asked all the ministers to sign a collective letter of resignation during a full cabinet meeting.

[2] Ripert died suddenly in the morning of 4 July 1958 while correcting the proofs of the 3rd edition of his Traite- de droit commercial.

[1] For his rigorous and elegantly written works Philippe Malaurie calls Ripert the greatest jurist of the 20th century.