The name Robert Ross is shared by several notable individuals:

• a British general of the early 1800s, see Robert Ross (general)
• an art historian (1869-1918), and friend of Oscar Wilde, see Robert Baldwin Ross
• an American blues vocalist and guitarist, and leader of the Robert Ross Band see Robert Ross (singer)
• Major Robert Ross (c1740-1794) was commander of the marines in the first European settlement of New South Wales
• Robert Ross (1934-2005), founding president of the American Association for Australian Literary Studies.
• Dr. Robert Ross, Founder of Ross University, Dominica & St.Kitts
• Robert Ross is also the name of the protagonist of Timothy Findley's WWI novel,"The Wars".