Ropes (surname)

Ropes is a surname, likely of a trade-related origin. 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