James Hunter Ross (10 February 1788 – 18 September 1865) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.
Ross was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan. He practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841, founding later that same year the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.
On 31 October 1851, Ross was nominated,[1] being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council,[2] a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.[1]