James Hunter Ross (c.1792 – 18 September 1865) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia).
Ross was born 10 February 1788 at Prestonpans, East Lothian Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan.
Ross practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841. In 1841, Ross founded the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.
On 31 October 1851 Griffith was nominated, being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council, a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the Council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.