John G. Ross

American photographer. He was born in New York, 1920, and studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He was a ship's communication officer in the US Merchant Navy during World War II. After the war he was a navigator for TWA airlines, and worked on the route which included Cairo. It was here that he came into contact with professional photographers, which inspired him to hone his own skills and eventually led to a career in freelance photography.

His commercial work incorporated his own varied interests, and is especially noted for his images of Egypt, its people, culture and ancient monuments. He worked for Chicago House in Egypt as well as several American museums with major Ancient Egyptian collections.

He also had his own London-based photography agency called The John Ross Photographic Archive. He died in Oxford, 2006. 

The Griffith Institute Archive contains Ross' colour transparencies (35 mm slides) showing various Egyptological subjects, including objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.