William Ross may refer to:
Nobility
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William Ross, 8th Lord Ross (died 1640), Scottish nobleman
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William Ross, 10th Lord Ross
William Ross, 10th Lord Ross of Halkhead (died 1656), was a Scottish nobleman.
Origins
Ross was the second son of James Ross, 4th Lord Ross, who died on 2 April 1581, by Jean, daughter of Robert, 3rd Lord Sempill. He succeeded to the peerage fol ...
(died 1656), Scottish nobleman
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William Ross, 12th Lord Ross
William Ross, 12th Lord Ross (c.1656 – 15 March 1738), was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician.
Origins
Ross was born in about 1656. He was the son and heir of George Ross, 11th Lord Ross, who died in 1682, by Grizel, daughter of W ...
(died 1738), Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician
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William Ross, 14th Lord Ross (died 1754), Scottish nobleman
Politics
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William Ross (speaker) (died 1830), New York politician, Speaker of the State Assembly 1814
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William H. H. Ross (1814–1887), American politician and former governor of Delaware
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William Ross (Canadian politician) (1824–1912), merchant, ship builder and politician in Nova Scotia, Canada
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William Ross (Ontario politician) (1854–1937), merchant and politician in Ontario, Canada
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William Benjamin Ross (1855–1929), Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman
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William Roderick Ross (1869–1928), lawyer and politician in British Columbia, Canada
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William Donald Ross
William Donald Ross (June 20, 1869 – June 25, 1947), was a financier, banker and the List of lieutenant governors of Ontario#Lieutenant Governors of Ontario, 1867–present, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
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(1869–1947), financier, banker and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
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William B. Ross (1873–1924), Governor of Wyoming
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William Henry Ross (1886–1943), provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada
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Bill Ross (Australian politician) (1888–1966), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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William Gladstone Ross (1889–1948), lawyer, judge and politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
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Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock (1911–1988), Secretary of State for Scotland in the 1960s
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William Cecil Ross (1911–1998), leader of the (communist) Labour Progressive Party of Manitoba in 1945
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William Ross (Unionist politician) (born 1936), Ulster Unionist Party member of Parliament until 2001
Sports
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William Ross (cricketer) (fl. 1860), Australian cricketer
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William Ross (footballer, born 1874) (1874–?), English professional footballer active in the 1890s
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William Ross (baseball) (1893–1964), American Negro leagues baseball player
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William Ross (rower) (1900–1992), Canadian Olympic rower
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William Alexander Ross (1913–1942), Scottish rugby player
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William Ross (footballer, born 1921) (1921–1995), Scottish footballer
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William Ross (water polo) (1928–2021), US water polo player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics
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Bill Ross (footballer) (1944-2020), Australian rules footballer
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Bill Ross (rugby union) (born 1956), Australian rugby union player
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Eric Ross (William Eric Ross, born 1944), Northern Irish footballer
Other fields
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William Ross (poet) (1762–1790/91), Scottish Gaelic poet
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William Charles Ross (1794–1860), British artist
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William P. Ross (1820–1891), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
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William Murray Ross (1825–1904), entrepreneur in Melbourne
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William Stewart Ross
William Stewart Ross (20 March 1844 – 30 November 1906) was a Scottish writer and publisher. He was a noted secularist thinker and used the pseudonym "Saladin". Between 1888 and 1906 he was the editor of the ''Agnostic Journal'', successor to the ...
(1844–1906), Scottish writer and publisher
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W. D. Ross
Sir William David Ross (15 April 18775 May 1971), known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known wor ...
(William David Ross, 1877–1971), British philosopher
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William Edward Daniel Ross (1912–1995), Canadian actor, playwright and bestselling writer
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William Ross (theatrical producer) (1915–1994), State Managers Association, Actors' Equity Association
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William Ross (actor)
was a Tokyo-based company dedicated to the dubbing of Japanese films and media for the English language. Frontier did jobs for Toho International, Toei Animation
is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei ...
(1923–2014), Tokyo-based American actor, voice actor, voice director and editor, and the founder of Frontier Enterprises
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William Ross (composer) (born 1948), soundtrack composer
Fictional
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William Ross (''Star Trek''), a character in ''Star Trek''
See also
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Willie Ross (disambiguation)
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