Ross Parmenter (May 30, 1912 – October 18, 1999) was a Canadian music critic, editor, and author who was primarily active in New York City.
He wrote several books on Mexico and was a news editor and staff writer at The New York Times for 30 years.
He was particularly interested in Spanish colonial architecture and traveled to Mexico numerous times while working out of New York City.
According to Richard D. Perry, "His descriptions of these early colonial monuments, then virtually unknown to American art historians or travelers, remain among the earliest accounts in English and can claim considerable historic interest.
He works through similar themes in a more detailed way in his books The Awakened Eye, A Week in Yanhuitlan, Stages in a Journey, and A House for Buddha.