Ropes (surname)
Ropes is a surname, likely of a trade-related origin.[1] People with the surname include:
- Adrian Ropes (1941–2004), Egyptian-born English television actor
- Arthur Reed Ropes, real name of Adrian Ross (1859–1933), British songwriter
- Bradford Ropes (1905–1966), American novelist and screenwriter
- David Ropes (died 1781), privateer from Salem, Massachusetts
- George Ropes (1788–1819), American artist
- James Hardy Ropes (1866-1933), American theologian
- John Codman Ropes (1836-1899), American military historian and lawyer, cofounder of the law firm Ropes & Gray
- Nathaniel Ropes, merchant and namesake of the Nathaniel Ropes Building in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Sharon Erickson Ropes (born 1954), Minnesota politician
- Wayne M. Ropes (1898–1948), American politician and businessman
References
- Ernest Weekley, Surnames (1916), p. 172.
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