Ross or ROSS may refer to:

People

* Clan Ross, a Highland Scottish clan * Ross (name), including a list of people with the surname or given name Ross, as well as the meaning * Earl of Ross, a peerage of Scotland

Places

* RoSS, the Republic of South Sudan

Antarctica

* Ross Sea *

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

* Ross Dependency

Australia

* Ross, Tasmania

Chile

* Ross Casino, a former casino in Pichilemu, Chile; now the Agustín Ross Cultural Centre

Ireland

*"Ross", a common nickname for

County Roscommon "Steadfast Irish heart" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Roscommon.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Connacht , subdi ...

* Ross,

County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...

, a townland in Killursa civil parish, barony of Clare, County Mayo, bordering Moyne Townland * Ross,

County Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Sovereign state, Country , subdivision_name = Republic of Ireland, Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Provinces o ...

, a townland in

Noughaval Noughaval or Nohoval ( ga, Nuachabháil) is a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in County Clare, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Name The name of the parish means "new acquisition" or "new settlement". Geography Location The parish lies ...

civil parish, barony of Kilkenny West, County Westmeath * Ross,

County Wexford County Wexford ( ga, Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was based on the historic Gaelic territory of Hy Kinsella (''Uí Ceinns ...

* The Diocese of Ross in West Cork. The Roman Catholic diocese merged with Cork in 1958 to become the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cork and Ross, while the Church of Ireland diocese is now part of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. This area, centered around Rosscarbery, was also the location of the influential

School of Ross The School of Ross was a monastic institution located in what is now called Rosscarbery, County Cork, Ireland, but formerly ''Ross-Ailithir'' (Ross of the Pilgrims), from the large number of monks and students who flocked to its halls from all ov ...

in the early Irish Catholic Church.

United Kingdom

* Ross, Northumberland, England, a village * Ross, Scottish Borders, a hamlet * Ross-on-Wye, England * Ross, Scotland, a region of Scotland and former earldom * County of Ross, Scotland, also known as ''Ross-shire''

United States

* Ross, Arkansas * Ross, California * Ross, Indiana * Ross, Iowa * Ross, Minnesota * Ross, North Dakota * Ross, Ohio * Ross County, Ohio * Ross, Texas *

Ross City, Texas Ross City is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles ...

* Ross, Wisconsin (disambiguation) *

Ross Township (disambiguation) Ross Township may refer to: Illinois * Ross Township, Edgar County, Illinois * Ross Township, Pike County, Illinois * Ross Township, Vermilion County, Illinois Indiana * Ross Township, Clinton County, Indiana * Ross Township, Lake County, Indian ...

New Zealand

Ross, New Zealand Ross is a small town located in the Westland District on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, south-west of Hokitika and north-east of Hari Hari by road. History Ross was established in the 1860s, during the West Coast Gold Rush, a ...

Space

Ross (lunar crater) Ross is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northwest part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It was named after James Clark Ross (British explorer) and Frank E. Ross (American astronomer and optician). It lies south-southwest of the crater P ...

Ross (Martian crater) Ross is an impact crater in the Thaumasia quadrangle of Mars located at 57.7 S and 107.84 W. It is 82.51 km in diameter. It was named after Frank E. Ross, an American astronomer (1874-1960). The crater's name was approved in 1973. Gulli ...

Ross 248 Ross 248, also called HH Andromedae or Gliese 905, is a small star approximately from Earth in the northern constellation of Andromeda. Despite its proximity it is too dim to be seen with the naked eye. It was first catalogued by Fr ...

, a star * ''ROSS'',

Russian Orbital Service Station The Russian Orbital Service Station (russian: Российская орбитальная служебная станция, ''Rossiyskaya orbital'naya sluzhebnaya stantsiya'') (ROSS, russian: РОСС) is a proposed Russian orbital space stat ...

, a proposed space station

Groups, organizations, companies

Business

Ross (optics) Ross is the name of a succession of London-based lens designers and their company. Andrew Ross (1798–1859) founded his company in 1830; from 1840 he began producing camera lenses signed "A. Ross". During his lifetime, the company was one o ...

, a London, England-based lens company *

Ross Group The Ross Group was a British food company founded in Grimsby, England in 1920. The Ross brand remains prominent in the retail frozen fish market. David Ross, the co-founder and significant shareholder in mobile telephone retailer The Carphon ...

, a British fish and frozen food company *

Ross Laboratories Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known d ...

, a former subsidiary of the American Abbott Laboratories pharmaceutical company now known as Abbott Nutrition * Ross Stores, an American department store chain *

Ross Technology Ross Technology, Inc. was a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, specializing in SPARC microprocessors. It was founded in Austin, Texas in August 1988 by Dr. Roger D. Ross, a leading computer scientist who headed Motorola's Advanced ...

, an American semiconductor company *

Ross Video Ross Video Ltd is a privately held Canadian company that designs and manufactures equipment for live event and video production. Ross Video's headquarters and manufacturing operations are located in Iroquois, Ontario, Canada, while their R&D lab ...

, a Canadian company that produces video production equipment

Academics

* Ross University School of Medicine, an international medical school in Dominica * Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, an international medical school in St. Kitts * Ross School of Business, part of the University of Michigan

Arts and entertainment

* ''Ross'' (play), a 1960 play by Terence Rattigan * ''Ross'' (1978 album), by Diana Ross * ''Ross'' (1983 album), by Diana Ross * ''Ross'' (Low Roar album)

Transportation

Ships

* , the name of several U.S. Navy ships * , a Royal Navy ship * , a radio ship

Land transport

* Ross (bicycles) *

Ross (gasoline automobile) The Ross was a Brass era car, Brass era automobile manufactured in Detroit, Michigan from 1915 to 1918 by the Ross Automobile Company. History John L. Ross of Ross & Young Machine Company entered the automobile field by incorporating his R ...

, produced 1915-1918 *

Ross (steam automobile) The Ross was a brass era steam automobile built in Newtonville, Massachusetts from 1906 to 1909. Louis Ross Company founder Louis S. Ross (1877–1927) gained national fame in the early 1900s while an employee of Stanley Motor Carriage Company ...

, produced 1906-1909

Other uses

* Ross procedure, a cardiac surgery operation *

Ross Mathematics Program Arnold Ephraim Ross (August 24, 1906 – September 25, 2002) was a mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program, a number theory summer program for gifted high school students. He was born in Chicago, but spent his youth ...

, a summer program at Ohio State University * Ross rifle * Ross seal, a species of Antarctican seal *

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, a database for fighting wildfires *

Retuinskih's System ROSS Retuinskih System ROSS (russian: РОСС, short for Росси́йская Оте́чественная Систе́ма Самозащи́ты; Transliteration of Russian into English, English transliteration: ''Rossiyskaya Otechestvennaya Sistem ...

, a martial system * ROSS Intelligence, a software for a automated legal consulting