Wallace Whitney Tripp (June 26, 1940 – September 9, 2018) was an American illustrator, anthologist and author.

He was known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor.

He has illustrated over 40 books, including Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet (1985), Wallace Tripp's Wurst Seller (1981), Casey at the Bat (1978) and A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me (1973).

He received a bachelor's degree in education from Keene State College and studied English at the University of New Hampshire.

[1] Throughout his career he created many greeting cards for Pawprints, a family-owned business, whose publisher was then wife, Marcy Tripp.