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