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Ross Bryant
Ross Bryant is an American comedian, improviser, and writer based in Los Angeles, known for The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Dropout shows, and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Ross Butler (actor)
Ross Butler, American actor born in Singapore and raised in Virginia, known as Zach Dempsey on 13 Reasons Why and Reggie Mantle on Riverdale, also in K.C. Undercover, Shazam!, and To All the Boys, and an advocate for Asian-American casting beyond stereotypes.
Ross Cagan
Ross L. Cagan is an American biologist at the University of Glasgow who models human cancers in fruit flies and helped bring the first FDA-approved drug for medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Ross Chastain
Ross Chastain (born 1992, Alva, Florida), "The Watermelon Man", is a NASCAR Cup Series driver of Trackhouse Racing's No. 1 Chevrolet and an eighth-generation Florida watermelon farmer, famous for the 2022 Martinsville "Hail Melon" wall-ride and the 2025 Coca-Cola 600 win.
Ross Collinge
Ross Collinge (Ross Hounsell Collinge, born 1944, Lower Hutt) is a New Zealand rower, Olympic gold medallist in the coxed four at Mexico City 1968 and silver medallist in the coxless four at Munich 1972, also world eight bronze in 1975.
Ross County F.C.
Ross County F.C., the Staggies, a professional football club founded in Dingwall in 1929, playing at Victoria Park (Global Energy Stadium). Highland League club elected to the SFL in 1994; League Cup winners 2016, Scottish Cup finalists 2010, now in Scottish League One.
Ross Dam
Ross Dam is a 540-foot concrete arch dam on the Skagit River in Whatcom County, Washington, built between 1937 and 1949 and operated by Seattle City Light.
Ross Dependency
Ross Dependency: New Zealand's Antarctic territorial claim, one of seven such claims, established by British Order in Council on 30 July 1923; 450,000 sq km south of 60°S between 160°E and 150°W, including the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat (born 1979) is an American conservative author and Catholic convert who was a New York Times op-ed columnist from 2009 to 2026, the youngest in the paper's history, wrote Bad Religion, To Change the Church, The Decadent Society, and Believe, and joined 60 Minutes in 2026.
Ross E. McKinney
Ross E. McKinney was an American environmental engineer, a National Academy of Engineering member called the "Father of Activated Sludge" for quantifying wastewater treatment microbiology.
Ross E. Rocklin
Ross E. Rocklin is an immunologist who worked at Harvard hospitals, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Tufts Medical Center, publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Ross Edgley
Ross Edgley, born 1985 in Grantham, England, is a British ultra-distance swimmer who became the first person to swim around Great Britain, a 157-day circumnavigation completed in 2018.
Ross Freeman
Ross H. Freeman (1948–1989) was an American engineer who invented the field-programmable gate array and co-founded Xilinx in San Jose in 1984, entering the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
Ross Fubini
Ross Fubini is an American venture capitalist who founded XYZ Venture Capital in 2017, known for writing Anduril's first check and investing in defense and Palantir-alumni startups.
Ross Garon
Ross Garon is a quantitative investor who has served as Global Head of Quantitative Strategies at Millennium Management since 2020, after leading Point72's Cubist Systematic Strategies unit.
Ross Geller
Ross Geller is the fictional paleontologist played by David Schwimmer on NBC's Friends (1994–2004); Monica's older brother, Rachel Green's on-off love interest, father of Ben and Emma, and subject of the "we were on a break" debate.
Ross Girshick
Ross Girshick is a computer vision and machine learning researcher known for the R-CNN family and Mask R-CNN, and now a member of technical staff at Anthropic.
Ross Goodman
Ross Goodman, full name Ross Carl Goodman, is an American criminal defense attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada, and founder of Goodman Law Group, established in 2001.
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959) was an American embryologist and zoologist at Yale who performed the first successful cultures of animal tissue in 1907, founding the technique of tissue culture.
Ross Gunn
Ross Gunn (1897–1966) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory who proposed nuclear submarine propulsion in 1939 and later directed Weather Bureau physical research.
Ross Gyre
Ross Gyre: cyclonic subpolar ocean gyre south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the southwest Pacific, near the Ross Sea. Wind-driven circulation of roughly 20–45 Sv, area about 1.84 million square kilometers, affecting dense-water formation.
Ross Hardison
Ross C. Hardison is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at Penn State known for work on gene regulation, comparative genomics, and the ENCODE project.
Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf: Earth's largest ice shelf, ~477,000 km², in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Cold-water shielded, slow-melting, discovered 1841 by James Clark Ross; base for Amundsen's 1911 polar expedition.
Ross Island
Ross Island is a volcanic island in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica, named for explorer James Clark Ross and hosting McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
Ross J. Anderson
Ross J. Anderson (1956–2024) was a British computer scientist and cryptographer, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge, a designer of the block cipher Serpent, and a founder of security economics.
Ross J. Baldessarini
Ross J. Baldessarini (born 1937) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, known for research on antipsychotic and mood-altering medicines and bipolar disorder.
Ross Kemp
Ross Kemp (born 1964, Barking, Essex) is an English actor and BAFTA-winning documentary maker, famous as Grant Mitchell in EastEnders and for Ross Kemp on Gangs and Extreme World.
Ross L. Levine
Ross L. Levine is an American physician-scientist who studies and treats myeloid malignancies, helped discover the JAK2 V617F mutation, and became Chief Scientific Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2025.
Ross Levine
Ross Eric Levine is an American finance economist, Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Haas and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, who studies how finance and regulation shape growth.
Ross Lynch
Ross Lynch (Ross Shor Lynch), American actor-singer born 1995 in Littleton, Colorado; starred as Austin Moon in Disney's Austin & Ally and Brady in Teen Beach Movie, played Jeffrey Dahmer in My Friend Dahmer, fronted R5 and co-founded The Driver Era.