Ross (disambiguation)
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Ross is the name of many places, persons and things:
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[edit] 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.
- New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland may refer to
- 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) on Earth's moon.
[edit] Persons
Ross is the name of many people, such as:
[edit] Family name Ross
- Alexander Ross
- Alan Ross, poet
- Alf Ross
- Arnold Ross
- Ben Ross
- Betsy Ross, flag maker
- Bob Ross, painter
- Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet
- 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
- George Ross (1892-1935), Major League Baseball pitcher
- George H. Ross, American businessman affiliated with the Trump Organization
- Glenn Ross U.K Strongman/Powerlifter
- 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
- John Ross disambiguation page
- Jonathan Ross (television presenter) and film critic
- Jonathan Ross (senator) (1826-1905), U.S. Senator from Vermont
- Justin Ross, (born in 1976), Maryland politician.
- Katharine Ross, actress
- Kenneth Ross, Scottish-American screenwriter of the film The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, etc.
- Kenneth G. Ross (born 1941), Australian playwright, and screenwriter of the film Breaker Morant, etc.
- 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
- Luke Francis Warren Ross Key supporter of Soviet Union Communist Movement
- 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
- William Ross disambiguation page
- W. D. Ross (William David Ross)
- William B. Ross (1873-1924), Governor of Wyoming
- William H.H. Ross (1814-1887), Governor of Delaware
- Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan
[edit] First name Ross
- Ross Bagdasarian
- Ross Gillespie, New Zealand field hockey player and coach
- Ross Perot, US presidental candidate
[edit] Fictional characters
- Ross Geller on the TV show Friends
- Thunderbolt Ross, in Marvel Comics
- Danny Ross, character on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Dr. Doug Ross- A character on ER, portrayed by George Clooney
- William Ross, character on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
[edit] 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 (optics), a 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 (Play), 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.
[edit] 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.
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