Hugh McGregor Ross (31 August 1917 – 1 September 2014)[1] was an early pioneer in the history of British computing.

[2][3][4] He was employed by Ferranti from the mid-1960s, where he worked on the Pegasus thermionic valve computer.

[5] He was involved in the standardization of ASCII and ISO 646 and worked closely with Bob Bemer.

[7] He was also one of the four main designers of ISO 6937, with Peter Fenwick, Bernard Marti and Loek Zeckendorf.

His working papers on the teachings of Fox are held at Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project.