Cotes (surname)

Cotes is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname are as follows:

• Ambrosio Cotes (c.1550–1603), Spanish composer
• Charles Cecil Cotes (1846–1898), British landowner and politician
• Everard Charles Cotes (1862–1944), British entomologist
• Francis Cotes (1726–1770), British painter
• George Cotes (death of birth unknown–1556), British Catholic bishop
• John Cotes, multiple people
• Leonard Cotes (fl. 1669-1701[1]), British painter
• Merton Russell-Cotes (1835–1921), Mayor of Bournemouth, England
• Roger Cotes (1682–1716), British mathematician, colleague of Isaac Newton
• Samuel Cotes (1734–1818), British painter
• Thomas Cotes (death of birth unknown–1641), British printer