Ian Ross was born in Ile Maligne, Quebec and received his early education in Arvida. He entered the pre-med program at Acadia University where he stayed for two years -1942/44. In 1944 he came to McGill, interrupting his studies to join the
Merchant Navy from 1945-1948 and served in the Korean War from 1948-1951. Returning to McGill he received a B.Sc in 1953. His working life was spent in real estate.

Howard Irwin Ross was born in 1907 in Montreal and died in 1974. His parents were John Wardrop and Gertrude Holland Ross, and he married Dorothy Dean St. Clair in 1938. They had two children. Ross received his B.A. from McGill in 1930, his M.A. from Oxford in 1932, and became a C.A. in 1937. During World War II, Ross worked as chairman on the Foreign Exchange Control Board and Administrator for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. For this, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. A partner in the accounting firm of Touche, Ross, Bailey and Smart, he also served as president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' Committee on Accounting and Auditing Research, and for a term as president of the Québec Institute of Chartered Accountants. He wrote a textbook entitled The Elusive Art of Accounting. From 1959 to 1964, Ross sat on the Board of Governors as graduate representative, and in 1964 he became Chancellor of the University. In 1969 he resigned from the Chancellorship to become Dean of the newly created Faculty of Management, a position he held until his retirement in 1973. In 1974, the Howard Ross Library of Management was named in his honour.

Dr. Graham Ross, 1889-1980, graduated from medicine at McGill in 1913. He served overseas with the 6th Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He became a prominent pediatrician in Montreal. He served as Norman Bethune's best man at one of his weddings to Frances Penney.

Sir George William Ross was born on September 18, 1841, in Nairn, Ontario.

He was an educator and politician. He worked as a schoolteacher, a school inspector, and a newspaper publisher before he got into politics. He also studied law, starting in the early 1870s, and in 1883, he received an LL.B. from Albert College in Belleville. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal in the 1872 election and was re-elected in 1874 and 1878. In 1883, he was appointed Ontario's Minister of Education and, he served as the 5th Premier of Ontario from 1899 to 1905. He remained the leader of the Liberal Party until 1907 when he was appointed to the Canadian Senate. In 1910, he was knighted by King George V for his public service in both federal and provincial politics. He wrote two books on his political life, "Patriotic Recitations and Arbor Day Exercises" (1893) and "Getting Into Parliament and After" (1913).

In 1862, he married Christina Campbell (-1872), in 1875, he married Catherine Boston (1847–1902), and in 1907, Mildred Margaret Peel (1856-1922). He died on March 7, 1914, in Toronto, Ontario.