Ropes (surname)
# 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, 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
