Ryan Pope is an American musician who lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

In the summer of 1994, he was in a band called "Kingpin" with his brother Rob and future The Get Up Kids bandmate Jim Suptic.

After the band broke up due to internal conflicts, Rob and Jim re-formed with Matt Pryor, who had been playing with Secular Theme and friend Nathan Shay on drums to form The Get Up Kids.

After The Get Up Kids broke up in the summer of 2005, Ryan and his brother Rob joined the band Koufax.

[1] Pope also is a member of The Cavaliers and did a short stint drumming for the Lawrence Kansas techno-indie fusion group Roman Numerals.