Famous People with Name Ross

Ross Baumgarten            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Baumgarten: born May 27, 1955, in Highland Park, Illinois) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher, who pitched from 1978 to 1982 for the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Ross Bagdasarian Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Bagdasarian Jr.: is a American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist and the son of the Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.. The Bagdasarians are of Armenian origin. After his father died of a heart attack in 1972, Bagdasarian succeede

Ross Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Alexander: was an American film actor.Born Ross Smith in Brooklyn, New York, Alexander began his acting career in Broadway productions during the 1920s. By 1926 he was regarded as a promising leading man, with good looks and an easy and charming style and began appearing in more substantial roles. He was signed to a film contract by Paramount Pictures but his film debut in The Wiser Sex (1932) was not a success, so he returned to Broadway. In 1934 he was signed to another film contract, this time by Warner Brothers Studios.

Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr.: was an American novelist of the middle of the twentieth century. He is most noted for his expansive novel, Raintree County, often considered to be one of the "Great American Novels."Lockridge was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States and grew up there. Lockridge attended Indiana University in 1931, graduating in 1935 with the highest average in the history of the university. Lockridge married and had four children. His novel Raintree County was published in early 1948, to great critical acclaim. It illustrates the 19th century history of a typical midwestern county through the reminiscences of its main character, John Wickliff Shawnessy.

Ross Macdonald            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Macdonald: is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar.He is best known for his highly acclaimed series of hardboiled novels set in southern California and featuring private detective Lew Archer.

Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross: was the 19th Governor of Texas (USA), a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and a president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now called Texas A&M University.When Texas seceded from the United States and joine

William Henry Harrison Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Henry Harrison Ross: was an American farmer and politician from Seaford, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as Governor of Delaware. Ross was a regular delegate to the Democratic National Convention, attending in 1844, 1848, 1856, a

Jonathan Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jonathan Ross: was a United States Senator from Vermont. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1856 and practiced in St. Johnsbury until 1870; he was State's attorney for Caledonia County, 1862–1863 and was appointed a member of the State board of education, holdin

Edmund Gibson Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Gibson Ross: was a politician who represented the state of Kansas after the American Civil War and was later governor of the New Mexico Territory. His vote against convicting of President Andrew Johnson of "high crimes and misdemeanors" allowed Johnson to stay in offi

William Bradford Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Bradford Ross: was the 12th Governor of Wyoming from 1923 to 1924. He was born in Dover, Tennessee to Ambrose B. Ross and Sue (Gray) Ross. Finally, in 1922, Ross was elected governor of Wyoming by appealing to progressive voters in both parties. He advocated stronger Pr