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Adam Richard Rippon (born November 11, 1989) is a retired American competitive figure skater and media personality. He is the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, the 2010 Four Continents Champion, and 2016 U.S. National Champion. Rippon competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where he finished 10th. At the junior level, Rippon is a two-time Junior World Champion (2008, 2009), the 2007–2008 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2008 U.S. junior national champion.
In 2018, Rippon became the first openly gay man to make a U.S. Winter Olympic team and the first to win a medal at the Winter Games. Later that year, Rippon won season 26 of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. He guest-hosted RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 in 2019, starred in MTV's comedy series Messyness in 2021, and came first in the reality competition series Stars on Mars that premiered on Fox in June 2023. Rippon joined NBC for the 2024 U.S. Championships and provided figure skating analysis for the world feed with fellow figure skater and former training mate Ashley Wagner.
Rippon was named to the 2018 edition ofTime Magazine's annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people. He released his memoir Beautiful on the Outside in October 2019.