Roper
Roper may refer to:
* Roper (profession), a rope maker, or user of rope; for example, a
cowboy engaged in tie down or trick roping.
People:
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Anthony Dean Roper (Tony), pickup race driver. His father Dean Roper was also a race driver.
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Brent D. Roper, a conspiracy theorist.
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Daniel Calhoun Roper, an American politician.
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Donald George Beaumont Roper, an English footballer.
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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.
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Hugh Trevor-Roper, a German historian.
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Jesse M. Roper, an officer of the
United States Navy.
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John Roper, a British politician.
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Lanning Roper, a United States citizen who became a well-known English gardener.
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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.
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Margaret Roper, daughter of Sir Thomas More.
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Moses Roper, a slave born in North Carolina who escaped to England and wrote a book about his slavery experiences.
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Patrick Trevor-Roper, a British surgeon and gay rights activist.
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Reese Roper, singer / songwriter for the bands
Five Iron Frenzy,
Brave Saint Saturn, and
Roper.
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Sandra Roper, a
New York lawyer and politician.
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Skid Roper, an American musician.
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Steve Roper, an American rock climber.
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Sylvester Howard Roper b. 1823 d. 1896, Inventor of the
motorcycle.
* Todd Roper, drummer for the band
Deathray.
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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.
Roper Families:
* The
Kent/Lord Teynham Roper family includes the
William Roper family.
* The
Massachusetts Roper family descended from John Roper who came from New Buckenham, Norfolk, England to Massachusetts in 1637. The Roper Y-chromosome project shows that this family is related to, at least, some of the Virginia Roper family.
* The
Virginia Roper families came to Virginia in several waves throughout the 17th century. The Roper Y-chromosome project 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 shows that this family is related to a Roper family in Cumbria, England.
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
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Roper, North Carolina in
Washington County, North Carolina, USA
* Roper,
Utah in
Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Roper Lake State Park in
Safford, Arizona, USA
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Roper Mountain, in
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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Roper River, in
Northern Territory,
AustraliaEntertainment:
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Roper, a Christian pop-punk band formed in Denver, Colorado.
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The Ropers, an American sitcom.
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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.
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Stanley Roper, a character in the sitcoms
Three's Company and its spinoff
The Ropers.
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Steve Roper, a character in the comic strip
Steve Roper and Mike Nomad.
Other:
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Roper is a Whirlpool brand of household appliances
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Roper Hospital, was founded as the first community hospital in the Carolinas.
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Roper Industries, Inc.
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Roper Logan and Tierney, a nursing model.
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Roper Motor Company is an automobile
wrecking yard located in
Grover, NC.
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Roper Mountain Science Center is a resource for area students, and is home to the largest planetarium in
South Carolina.
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Roper Public Affairs, a major commercial polling firm.
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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.
* ISBN 0486427188, available online [
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* Roper Y-Chromosome Testing Project [
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