Ross

Ross is the name of many places, persons and things:

Places

• Ross, an historical area in Scotland.
  • The County of Ross, also known as Ross-shire, and
  • Ross and Cromarty, later administrative areas, which include most or all of Ross.
• Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
• Ross, County Wexford, Ireland may refer to
  • the town of Old Ross
  • the town of New Ross
  • the former Diocese of Ross
• Ross, New Zealand is a gold mining town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
• Ross, Tasmania is a town in the midlands of Tasmania, Australia.
• Ross Sea, a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica.
• Ross Ice Shelf, an ice shelf near the Ross Sea.
• Ross Island, an island on the Ross Sea
• Fort Ross, California, a former Russian fur trade outpost, in present-day California, USA.
• Ross, California (not the same as Fort Ross)
• Ross County, Ohio
• Ross 248, a Star System approximately 10.32 light years from Earth.
• Ross (lunar crater), is a crater on Earth's moon.

Persons

Ross is the name of many people, such as:

• Alexander Ross
• Alan Ross, poet
• Alf Ross
• Arnold Ross
• Ben Ross
• Betsy Ross, flag maker
• Bob Ross, painter
• Diana Ross, singer
• Edward Ross (Edward A. Ross, Edward Alsworth Ross)
• Edmund G. Ross (1826-1907), Governor of New Mexico Territory
• George Ross (1730-1779), Signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Henry Howard Ross (1790-1862), US Congressman from New York
• Hugh Ross disambiguation page
• J. Percy Ross Scouts Canada Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1978
• James Ross (1762-1847), US Senator from Pennsylvania
• James Clark Ross
• James Daniel Ross Author of The Radiation Angels
• James Martin of Ross, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland
• John Ross disambiguation page
• Jonathan Ross, presenter and film critic
• Jonathan Ross (1826-1905), U.S. Senator from Vermont
• Katharine Ross, actress
• Laura Ross, chess player
• Lawrence Sullivan Ross (a.k.a. Sul Ross) (1838-1898), Governor of Texas
• Lewis W. Ross (1812-1895), US Congressman from Illinois
• Martin Ross, pen name of Violet Florence Martin and Edith Anna Somerville
• Mike Ross (b. 1961), US Congressman from Arkansas
• Miles Ross (1827-1903), US Congressman from New Jersey
• Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977), Governor of Wyoming
• Paul Ross, journalist and TV personality
• Percy Ross, philanthropist
• Robert Ross
• Robert Tripp Ross (1903-1981), US Congressman from New York
• Ronald Ross
• Ryan Ross, guitarist and lyricst for Panic! at the Disco
• Scott Ross, harpsichordist
• Shavar Ross, actor
• Sobieski Ross (1828-1877), US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Sinclair Ross
• Thomas Ross (1806-1865), US Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Thomas Randolph Ross (1788-1869), US Congressman from Ohio
• W. D. Ross (William David Ross)
• William B. Ross (1873-1924), Governor of Wyoming
• William Henry Harrison Ross (1814-1887), Governor of Delaware

• Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan

• Ross Perot, presidental candidate

• Ross Bagdasarian

Fictional characters

• Ross Geller (TV show Friends);
• General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, in Marvel Comics;
• Dr. Doug Ross- A character on ER, portrayed by George Clooney

Things

• The Ross Mathematics Program, an eight-week summer program in number theory, at Ohio State University.
• Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
• Ross, the lens making company.
• Ross procedure, a type of aortic valve surgery
• Ross Products, a division of Abbott Laboratories.
• Ross Stores, a California-based department store chain that focuses mainly on off-price clothing.
• Ross University, a for-profit university with a medical school and veterinary school located in the Caribbean.
• Ross, a play by English dramatist Terence Rattigan.
• an acronym for Resource Ordering Status System.
• ROSS, Russian martial system
• Ross (bicycles), a U.S. built line of bikes between 1950 and 1989.
• Ross Technology, Inc., a U.S. semiconductor company of the 1980s and 1990s.

Ships

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Ross. The first ship was named for Captain David Ross and the second for Donald Kirby Ross.

• Ross (DD-563) was a Fletcher-class destroyer, commissioned in 1944 and decommissioned in 1959.
• Ross (DDG-71) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, commissioned in 1997 and actively serving as of 2005.