Cotes is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname are as follows:
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Ambrosio Cotes (c.1550–1603), Spanish composer
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Charles Cecil Cotes
Charles Cecil Cotes (7 April 1846 – 9 August 1898) was a British landowner and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician.
Cotes was born in 1846, eldest surviving son of John Cotes (1799-1874), John Cotes of Woodcote Hall near Newport, Shropshire ...
(1846–1898), British landowner and politician
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Everard Charles Cotes
Everard Charles Cotes (1862 — 4 October 1944) was an English-born entomologist who worked at the Indian Museum in Calcutta. He later became a journalist after marrying the famous Canadian journalist, novelist and playwright Sara Jeannette Duncan. ...
(1862—1944), British entomologist
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Francis Cotes
Francis Cotes (20 May 1726 – 16 July 1770) was an English painter, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Life and work
He was born in London, the eldest son of Robert Cotes, an ...
(1726–1770), British painter
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George Cotes
George Cotes (or Cotys, Coates) (died 1556) was an English academic and Catholic Bishop of Chester during the English Reformation.
He had been a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1522, and then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1 ...
(death of birth unknown–1556), British Catholic bishop
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John Cotes, multiple people
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Leonard Cotes (fl. 1669-1701
, British painter
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Merton Russell-Cotes
Sir Merton Russell-Cotes (Wolverhampton 8 May 1835 – 27 January 1921 Bournemouth) was Mayor of Bournemouth, England, 1894–95. During his Mayoralty, Meyrick Park, two free libraries, and the first two schools of art in the borough ...
(1835–1921), Mayor of Bournemouth, England
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Roger Cotes
Roger Cotes (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the '' Principia'', before publication. He also invented the quadratur ...
(1682–1716), British mathematician, colleague of Isaac Newton
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Samuel Cotes (1734–1818), British painter
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Thomas Cotes
Thomas Cotes (died 1641) was a London printer of the Jacobean and Caroline eras, best remembered for printing the Second Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays in 1632.
Life and work
Thomas Cotes became a "freeman" (a full member) of the S ...
(death of birth unknown–1641), British printer
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Surnames of English origin