Roper

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Roper may refer to:

• Roper (profession), a rope maker, or user of rope; for example, a cowboy engaged in tie down or trick roping.

Contents 1 People 2 Roper Families 3 Places 4 Entertainment 5 Other 6 Notes

[edit] People

• Andrei Roper, Jamaican marketing practitioner.
• Anthony Dean Roper (Tony), pickup race driver. His father Carrol Dean Roper was also a race driver.
• Brent D. Roper, a conspiracy theorist.
• Daniel Calhoun Roper, an American politician.
• Donald George Beaumont Roper, an English footballer.
• Elmer Ernest Roper, a Canadian politician.
• Elmo Burns Roper, Jr., founder of the Roper Opinion Research Company, later renamed Roper Starch Worldwide Company.
• George Denny Roper, founder of the Roper Manufacturing Company of Zanesville OH, later purchased by Whirlpool Corporation.
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, a German historian.
• Jesse M. Roper, an officer of the United States Navy.
• John Francis Hodgess Roper, Lord Roper, a British politician.
• John Roper b c1822, Australian explorer; Roper Peak and Roper River in the Northern Territory are named after him.
• John Roper, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
• Lanning Roper, a United States citizen who became a well-known English gardener.
• L. David Roper b. 1935, discoverer of the Roper resonance in particle physics and genealogist of the Roper/Rooper, Franklin and Little/Klein/Cline/Kline families.
• Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More.
• Moses Roper, a slave born in North Carolina who escaped to England and wrote a book ^[1] about his slavery experiences.
• Patrick Trevor-Roper, a British surgeon and gay rights activist.
• Reese Roper, singer / songwriter for the bands Five Iron Frenzy, Brave Saint Saturn, and Roper.
• Sandra Roper, a New York lawyer and politician.
• Scott C. Roper, a geographer, author, and educator from New England.
• Skid Roper, an American musician.
• Steve Roper, an American rock climber.
• Sylvester Howard Roper b. 1823 d. 1896, Inventor of the motorcycle.
• Todd Roper, drummer for the band Deathray (and formerly for the band Cake).
• William Roper (1496 - 1578), a British politician and writer.
• William Lee Roper, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Roper previously served as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy, administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, and as a White House Fellow, serving on the domestic policy staff.

[edit] Roper Families

• The Kent/Lord Teynham Roper family includes the William Roper family.
• The Colonial Massachusetts Roper family descended from John Roper who came from New Buckenham, Norfolk, England to Massachusetts in 1637. The Roper Y-chromosome project ^[2] shows that this family is related to, at least, some of the Virginia Roper family.
• The Roper family of Dorchester, Massachusetts, descended from John Roper and his wife, Margaret, of County Donegal, Ireland. The family includes descendents of John and Margaret's sons John J., Michael, Edward, and William Roper. All four brothers migrated to Massachusetts in the 1890s and early 1900s.
• The Virginia Roper families came to Virginia in several waves throughout the 17th century. The Roper Y-chromosome project ^[3] shows that some of them came from the border area of Norfolk and Suffolk in England and that those are related to the Massachusetts Roper family.
• The Charleston, South Carolina/Norfolk, Virginia family. The Roper Y-chromosome project ^[4] shows that this family is related to a Roper family in Cumbria, England.

[edit] Places

• Roper, Alabama in Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
• Roper, Georgia in Jeff Davis County, Georgia, USA
• Roper, Kansas in Wilson County, Kansas, USA
• Roper, Kentucky in Graves County, Kentucky, USA
• Roper, North Carolina in Washington County, North Carolina, USA
• Roper, Utah in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
• Roper Lake State Park in Safford, Arizona, USA
• Roper Mountain, in Greenville, South Carolina, USA
• Roper River, in Northern Territory, Australia

[edit] Entertainment

• Roper, a Christian pop-punk band formed in Denver, Colorado.
• Roper, a Metal band from Limerick City, Ireland. Supported Mudvayne with American Head Charge after winning the "Miller Strat Battle of the Bands" and Locus (UK).
• The Ropers, an American sitcom.
• George Roper, British stand-up comedian. Known for his work on the British comedy show The Comedians.
• George Roper, fictional character in the British sitcom George and Mildred.
• "Mister" Paul Roper, a DJ for WSOU-FM.
• Stanley Roper, a character in the sitcoms Three's Company and its spinoff The Ropers.
• Scott Roper, a character played by Eddie Murphy in the film Metro.
• Steve Roper, a character in the comic strip Steve Roper and Mike Nomad.

[edit] Other

• Roper is a Whirlpool brand of household appliances
• Roper Industries, Inc.
• Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing.
• Roper Motor Company is an automobile wrecking yard located in Grover, NC.
• Roper Mountain Science Center is a resource for area students, and is home to the largest planetarium in South Carolina.
• Roper Public Affairs, a major commercial polling firm.
• Roper Hospital, was founded as the first community hospital in the Carolinas.
• Roper Scientific, Inc.
• USS Roper (DD-147) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
• Roper v. Simmons, a United States Supreme Court case.
• Roper, is a style of Western (Cowboy) boot with a short heel and round toe.
• Will Rogers, One of the nation's most famous ropers, a political humorist, and movie star from Oklahoma, also known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son".
• Will Rogers High School, Named after Will Rogers and opened in 1939, the school's mascots are the "Ropers".

[edit] Notes

• ^  ISBN 0-486-42718-8, available online [5]
• ^  Roper Y-Chromosome Testing Project [6]