Ken Ross (cyclist)

Ken Ross (1900 - 1974) was an Australian road and track cyclist. His best results were achieved in the Goulburn to Sydney, where he set the fastest time on three occasions and in the Sydney Six-day race which he won three times.

Cycling career

Ross began cycling for the Parramatta club in 1917, winning the Parramatta championship that year. His first major success was finishing 2nd in the Goulburn to Sydney and setting the fastest time. He would subsequently set the fastest time in 1926 and 1928 including winning the handicap event in 1928. The 1928 Goulburn to Sydney was the first professional road race by Fatty Lamb who had set the fastest time in the previous three amateur events. Ross was 3rd fastest professional in 1930 and 4th in 1931.

Ross's success in the Goulburn to Sydney resulted in his selection for the Warrnambool to Melbourne, where the title of Long Distance Road Champion of Australasia was awarded to the fastest time over the full distance of 165 miles (266 km). However Ross' best result was the 3rd fastest time in 1930.

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Ken Ross (photographer)

Ken Ross is an American independent commercial photographer who specializes in travel, location, people, and corporate photography. He is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Career

Educated in the U.S. and Switzerland, Ross began his photography career while residing in Sydney, Australia in 1985. His work has taken him to more than eighty countries, including 57 trips to Europe. In 2008 alone, he worked in Japan, The Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Yemen, Dubai, Oman, Ukraine, and Romania, among others. Ross has tens of thousands of images on file with a number of stock photo agencies around the world including Viesti Associates.

His photographs have also appeared in several books published in the U.S. & Europe, including his own book project, Real Taste of Life. His work has been exhibited in Phoenix, New York, Japan and Mexico. In May 2008, Ross had his first museum exhibit, a single artist show at the Art Museum of Monterey, Mexico. His work has been featured in How to Shoot Location Photography: Give It a Shot, Create magazine, Fall 2005 and in Photomedia magazine, Spring 2006. Ross was interviewed by WhoHub, a directory of interviews with professionals in the fields of communication, arts, humanities, technology, marketing, and any other activity with a creative flair. He has actively worked with Through Each Others Eyes (TEOE), an Arizona not-for-profit corporation, whose goal is to promote international understanding via the medium of photography.

Ken Ross (footballer)

Kenneth Douglas "Ken" Ross (27 August 1927 - 19 September 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Ross was a versatile footballer, used often as a ruck-rover, who Fitzroy recruited from VFA club Northcote. He spent eight seasons at Fitzroy, before returning to the VFA in 1956 where he was signed by Camberwell as playing coach. In 1957 he won the J. J. Liston Trophy and two years later made a comeback with Fitzroy. He appeared in all 18 games that the club played in the 1959 VFL season but retired after two games early the following year.

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