John Ross
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John Ross was the name of:
- John Ross (admiral) (18th C.), admiral of the British Royal Navy
- John Ross (American patriot), figure in the American Revolution
- John Ross (d. 1776), first husband of Betsy Ross
- John Ross (Arctic explorer) (1777-1856), British naval officer
- John Ross (Cherokee chief) (1790-1866)
- John Ross (Canadian politician) (1818-1871), Canadian Senator
- John Ross (VC) (1822-1879), Scottish corporal of the British Army during the Crimean war
- John Ross (industrialist) (1876-1951), Canadian industrialist
- John Ross (author), author of the 1996 novel Unintended Consequences
- John Ross (representative), U.S. Representative.
- John Ross (chemist) (b. 1926), physical chemist.
- John R. Ross (b. 1938), American linguist
- John Ross (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- John Ross (explorer) (1817–1903), explorer of Central Australia
- John Ross (artist), British comic book artist
- John N. Ross, member of Seanad Éireann, 1961-65
- John Ross (tennis), former professional tennis player
- Dr. John William Gamaliel Ross, former Victorian upper house MP
- John Ross (activist), author of Murdered by Capitalism, and Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible
[edit] Fictional characters
- John Ross (fictional character), in Terry Brooks' Word/Void trilogy
- John Ross "Jock" Ewing, Sr., patriarch of Ewing family in TV series Dallas
- J. R. Ewing, the oldest son of Jock Ewing Sr. in TV series Dallas
[edit] Other uses
- John Ross, South African deep ocean tugboat, listed for many years as the most powerful tug in the world.

