Ropes is a surname, likely of a trade-related origin.Ernest Weekley, Surnames (1916), p. 172. 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, co-founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray Nathaniel Ropes (c. 1726–1774), justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ropes Mansion, named for the justice 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
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