Famous People with Name Cope

Samantha Christine Cope            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samantha Christine Cope: Her career began with small roles in television programs. She played the character of Andrea in two episodes of Drake & Josh, a Nickelodeon sitcom. She also served as a decoy on To Catch a Predator, a series of hidden camera investigations by the television newsmagazine Dateline NBC devoted to the subject of identifying and detaining potential child sexual abusers who attempt to contact children over the Internet.

Edward Drinker Cope            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Drinker Cope: was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist.Cope is best known for his highly publicized Bone Wars with O. C. Marsh. A race to publish their findings, and thus prioritize their discoveries, consumed both Marsh’s and Copes finances and lives. Cope traveled the American West searching for fossils. His staunch resolve in his belief of Neo-Lamarckism was the subject of ridicule by of many of his peers at the American Philosophical Society and by his greatest enemy, O.C. Marsh.Along with his rival, Cope helped define the field of American paleontology. Cope's writing was prodigious, with a record 1,200 papers published over his lifetime. He named dozens of species of dinosaurs, and in total named more than 1,000 vertebrate species. His most established theories on the origin of mammalian molars and the Cope’s Law on the gradual enlargement of mammalian species are considered his best generalized theories.

Warner Walton Cope            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Warner Walton Cope: also known as W. W. Cope, was the 6th Chief Justice of California.He was elected to the state legislature in 1858. In June 1859 he was nominated by Alvinza Hayward, also of Amador County, to be the candidate of the Democratic Lecompton Party for associate

Frederick Cope            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Cope: was the third Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving from 1892 to 1893. He was born in Oxford, England.