The name Rip Van Winkle has been used to name
- infrastructure (Rip Van Winkle Bridge),[36][37]
- consumer goods (Old Rip Van Winkle whiskey)[38][39] and
- Music:
- American composer George Whitefield Chadwick wrote a concert overture entitled Rip Van Winkle in 1879, when he was a student in Leipzig.
- American Doom metal band Witch perform a song entitled "Rip Van Winkle" detailing the story in song form
- American Doo-wop band The Devotions released their novelty song single "Rip Van Winkle" in 1961 on Delta Records
- American psych-rock band Shannon and the Clams released a song called ‘Rip Van Winkle’ on their third album ‘Dreams from the Rat House’.
- Literature:
- In Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, the name "Rip Van Winkle" is attributed to a fellow prisoner as a riddle in order to understand that the man has been imprisoned for 20 years.
- Video games:
- The 1990 video game Super Mario World features an enemy known as "Rip Van Fish" which constantly sleeps unless disturbed.
- Disney’s 2003 MMO Toontown Online featured buildings with names based on puns and pop-culture references, one of these buildings, in the Donald’s Dreamland area of the game, was named "Rip Van Winkle’s Wrinkle Cream". The same building also features in the 2014 fan-made revival of the game Toontown Rewritten.
- In the 2018 video game Red Dead Redemption II, outlaw John Marston jokingly claims that his name is Rip Van Winkle when questioned by Pinkerton Agent Milton, seemingly in a effort to mislead and mock him.
- Television:
- In the 1961 The Twilight Zone episode "The Rip Van Winkle Caper", four gold thieves place themselves in suspended animation for 100 years in order to escape the law and, upon revival, spend their stolen fortune with impunity.
- In the 1963 The Twilight Zone episode "In His Image", Rip Van Winkle is mentioned after a man realizes his hometown has greatly changed in supposedly one week.
- In the 1992 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", 147-year-old Captain Montgomery Scott is revived after 75 years in a transport buffer.
- In the 1994 film Star Trek Generations, 138-year-old Admiral James T. Kirk comes back to life after being "suspended" in a Nexus for 78 years.
- In the BBC television show Doctor Who, the tenth episode of the ninth series (titled "Sleep no More") involves a machine called Morpheus which can condense a full night's worth of sleep into mere minutes. People who refuse to use Morpheus are colloquially called "Rips", referencing Rip van Winkle.
