title: Ropes (surname)
text: # 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
  