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Roper (surname)

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Roper
Origin
Meaningoccupational name for a maker or seller of rope[1]
Other names
Variant form(s)Rooper, Raper, Rapier, Repper[1]

Roper is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Roper family

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The heir apparent is the present holder's son Henry "Harry" Christopher John Ingham Roper-Curzon (born 1986).

Politicians

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Academics and writers

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  • Brian Roper (academic), former vice-chancellor of London Met
  • Clyde Roper (born 1937), zoologist known for his research on giant squid
  • L. David Roper (born 1935), discoverer of the Roper resonance in particle physics and genealogist
  • Lyndal Roper, Fellow at Oriel College and author of Witch Craze
  • Nancy Roper (1918–2004), British nurse theorist and lexicographer

Sportspeople

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Entertainers

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Other people

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  • Col. Roper (died 1788), Commander in Chief of the Island of St. Vincent, killed in a duel with Mr. Thomas Purefoy.[2]
  • Abel Roper (1665–1726), English journalist and publisher
  • Moses Roper (c. 1810 – c. 1861), a slave born in North Carolina who escaped to England and wrote a book about his slavery experiences
  • Elmo Roper (1900–1971), founder of the Roper Opinion Research Company (the "Roper Poll"), later renamed Roper Starch Worldwide Company
  • George Denny Roper (1855–1925), founder of the Roper Manufacturing Company of Zanesville, Ohio, later purchased by Whirlpool Corporation
  • Harry J. Roper, current partner and Chair - Intellectual Property, Jenner & Block
  • Jesse M. Roper (1851–1901), an officer of the United States Navy
  • Joanna Roper (born 1969), British civil servant and diplomat
  • John Charles Abercromby Roper, (1915–1998), British foreign-service officer
  • Lanning Roper (1912–1983), a United States citizen who became a well-known English gardener
  • John Roper (born c. 1822, date of death unknown), Australian explorer; Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory are named after him
  • Kevin Roper, animator for Hanna-Barbera Productions in the 1970s
  • Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), a British surgeon and gay rights activist
  • Sylvester Howard Roper (1823–1896), Inventor of the motorcycle
  • Shirley Phelps-Roper (born 1957), de facto spokesman for the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, daughter of Fred Phelps

Fictional characters

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. Vol. 4 (First ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879881-1.
  2. ^ The History of Duelling, Vol. 2, by J. G. Millingen (London: Richard Bentley, 1841), pp. 146,7