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Ross Macdonald
Ross Macdonald, pen name of Kenneth Millar (1915-1983), American-Canadian hardboiled crime novelist, creator of private eye Lew Archer in eighteen Southern California novels including The Chill and The Underground Man.
Ross Malinger
Ross Malinger (born 1984, Redwood City, California) is an American former child actor, Jonah Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and the voice of T.J. Detweiler in Recess; his last screen role was Without a Trace in 2006, after which he worked in car restoration and dealership finance.
Ross Marquand
Ross Marquand (Roscoe Wayne Marquand, born 1981) is an American actor and impressionist known as Aaron on The Walking Dead and as Red Skull in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, plus Ultron and Professor X voice roles.
Ross Martin
Ross Martin (Martin Rosenblatt, 1920-1981), Polish-born American actor famous as master-of-disguise Artemus Gordon on CBS's The Wild Wild West (1965-1969); Emmy-nominated 1969; distinct from other people named Ross or Martin Ross.
Ross Masood
Ross Masood (راس مسعود) was an Indian educationist who served as vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University and was a close friend of E. M. Forster.
Ross Mathews
Ross Mathews (born 1979, Mount Vernon, Washington), also known as Ross the Intern, is an American TV host, Emmy-winning producer, and author, a RuPaul's Drag Race judge and Drew Barrymore Show co-host.
Ross McCall
Ross McCall (born 1976, Port Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor, writer, and director known for Cpl. Joseph Liebgott in Band of Brothers, Matthew Keller on White Collar, and Silo, not to be confused with the American TV producer of the same name.
Ross McCormack
Ross McCormack is a Scottish forward, born in Glasgow in 1986, who starred for Leeds United and Fulham and joined Aston Villa for a record £12 million in 2016.
Ross Noble
Ross Noble (born 1976, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English stand-up comedian known for semi-improvised, surreal tangents and audience interaction; Perrier nominee, 15 world tours, Freewheeling on Dave, and Igor in Young Frankenstein.
Ross Pearson
Ross Pearson (born 1984), English MMA fighter from Sunderland, TUF 9 lightweight winner, 26-fight UFC run 2009-2019, record 20-16-0 (1 NC), retired 2019, later boxing and Probellum.
Ross Perot
Ross Perot (1930-2019), Texas billionaire founder of EDS and Perot Systems, ran for president as an independent in 1992, winning 18.9% of the vote, and as the Reform Party nominee in 1996 with 8%.
Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign
Ross Perot's 1992 independent presidential campaign: billionaire Texan who announced on Larry King Live, spent $65 million, dropped out in July, re-entered October 1, ran infomercials with James Stockdale, and won 18.9 percent of the popular vote with zero electoral votes, the best third-party result since 1912.
Ross Perot Jr.
Ross Perot Jr. (Henry Ross Perot Jr.) is a Texas real estate developer and pilot who founded Hillwood and flew the first helicopter flight around the world in 1982.
Ross Powers
Ross Powers (born 1979) is an American snowboarder from Vermont who won 1998 Olympic bronze and 2002 Olympic gold in halfpipe, the first male snowboarder with two Olympic medals, and now coaches at Stratton Mountain School.
Ross procedure
Ross procedure (pulmonary autograft, switch procedure): aortic valve replacement using the patient's own pulmonary valve plus a donor homograft, introduced by Donald Ross in 1967; offers better survival than mechanical or bioprosthetic valves in young adults but higher reintervention rates.
Ross Rebagliati
Ross Rebagliati, Canadian snowboarder born 1971 in Vancouver, won the first Olympic snowboarding gold (giant slalom, Nagano 1998), was stripped of the medal for marijuana, then reinstated by CAS on 12 February 1998.
Ross rifle
The Ross rifle was a Canadian straight-pull bolt-action rifle in .303 caliber, produced from 1903 to 1917 and replaced in front-line service by the Lee-Enfield in 1916.
Ross River Dam
Ross River Dam is an earth and rock fill dam on the Ross River near Townsville, Queensland, completed in 1970 for flood control and water supply.
Ross River fever
Ross River fever (epidemic polyarthritis) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus disease endemic to Australia and Papua New Guinea, causing fever, rash, and joint pain; about 4,000 Australian cases yearly, no vaccine or specific treatment, no reported fatalities.
Ross River virus
Ross River virus (RRV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus endemic to Australia and Papua New Guinea that causes Ross River fever, historically called epidemic polyarthritis, marked by joint pain.
Ross School of Business
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Michigan Ross) is the University of Michigan's AACSB-accredited business school in Ann Arbor, founded in 1924. Known for action-based learning, MAP consulting projects, a No. 4 BBA, and No. 1-ranked supply chain and executive education programs.
Ross Scott
Ross Scott, also known as Ross William Scott, is an American machinima creator and consumer-rights campaigner who created Freeman's Mind and founded Stop Killing Games in 2024.
Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a Pacific Ocean bay between Cape Adare and Cape Colbeck, discovered by James Clark Ross in 1841. It is administered by New Zealand.
Ross Stewart (footballer, born 1996)
Ross Cameron Stewart (born 1996, Irvine) is a Scottish striker from junior football to Sunderland, Southampton, Swansea City, and Scotland's 2026 World Cup squad.
Ross Stores
Ross Stores, Inc., known for its Ross Dress for Less brand, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1982 and headquartered in Dublin, California, with over 2,200 stores.
Ross Taylor
Ross Taylor (Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor), New Zealand cricketer, 112 Tests, 236 ODIs, 102 T20Is, 18,199 runs; first to 100 caps in all three formats; returned for Samoa in 2025.
Ross Taylor (earth scientist)
Stuart Ross Taylor (1925–2021) was a New Zealand-born geochemist and planetary scientist at the Australian National University who made the first chemical analysis of the first Apollo 11 lunar sample.
Ross Turner
Ross Turner is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate, representing District 8 since 2013 and leading its Income Tax Subcommittee.
Ross Ulbricht
Ross Ulbricht (born 1984), creator of the Silk Road darknet market as "Dread Pirate Roberts"; convicted 2015 on seven counts, sentenced to life, appeals failed, pardoned by Trump January 21, 2025.
Ross University School of Medicine
Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM, Ross Med) is a for-profit Caribbean medical school founded in 1978 in Dominica, now based in Barbados, CAAM-HP accredited since 2009, with U.S. clinical rotations and a 96% first-time residency attainment rate.