Ropes (surname)
Ropes is a surname, likely of a trade-related origin. People with the surname include:
- Adrian Ropes, Egyptian-born English television actor
- Arthur Reed Ropes, real name of Adrian Ross, British songwriter
- Bradford Ropes, American novelist and screenwriter
- David Ropes, privateer from Salem, Massachusetts
- George Ropes, American artist
- James Hardy Ropes, American theologian
- John Codman Ropes, 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, Minnesota politician
- Wayne M. Ropes, American politician and businessman
