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.

Dorothy Jean Ross was born in Montreal in 1909 and earned her B.A. from McGill in 1930. In the same year she took her Interim First Class High School Diploma from Macdonald College. While teaching at Connaught School in Montreal (1931-1934) she earned her M.A. in History from McGill (1932) and was an assistant in the History Department during the 1933-1934 season, marking essays for Professor E.R. Adair. Due to a Moyse Travelling Fellowship she was able to spend the remainder of 1934 and 1935 in England conducting research for her doctoral thesis on English justices of peace in the 16th century. In 1936 she returned to Montreal and joined the staff of the Montreal High School for Girls. In 1939 she became McGill's first woman Ph.D. She became Vice-Principal of the Montreal High School for Girls (1951), Principal (1958) and retired in 1965.