Ross

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

Places

• Ross (or Ross-shire) is an area in Scotland.
• Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
• Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, the towns of Old Ross, New Ross, and the former Diocese of Ross.
• Ross is a gold mining town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
• Ross 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, 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.
• The crater Ross, 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)
• George Ross
• Hugh Ross disambiguation page
• J. Percy Ross Scouts Canada Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1978
• 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
• Katharine Ross, actress
• Laura Ross, chess player
• Martin Ross, pen name of Violet Florence Martin and Edith Anna Somerville
• Nellie Tayloe Ross
• Percy Ross, philanthropist
• Robert Ross
• Ronald Ross
• Scott Ross, harpsichordist
• Shavar Ross, actor
• Sinclair Ross
• Ross Perot
• W. D. Ross (William David Ross)

Fictional characters

• Ross Geller (TV show Friends);
• General Thaddeus E. "Thunderbolt" Ross, in Marvel Comics;

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.
• ROSS, Russian martial system

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.