Sir James Keith Ross, 2nd Baronet, FRCS (9 May 1927 – 18 February 2003) was a British consultant cardiac surgeon.

He qualified in medicine at Middlesex Hospital prior to undertaking mostly sea-based National Service in the Royal Naval Reserve.

He proceeded to undertake training in cardiothoracic surgery at the Brompton Hospital and also in San Francisco, where he held a Fulbright Scholarship and worked with Frank Gerbode.

[3] He was awarded the Bruce Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1989, which is a recognition granted only occasionally since its inception in 1966.

He died suddenly at his former hospital in Southampton on 18 February 2003 after initially successful treatment for a dissecting aneurysm of the aortic arch.