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1. British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932)
   - Sir Ronald Ross
    
2. American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836)
   - Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross
    
3. British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
   - James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross
    
4. Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856)
   - John Ross, Sir John Ross
    
5. A politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977)
   - Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross

Type of: adventurer, doc, doctor, Dr., dressmaker, explorer, MD, medico, modiste, needlewoman, physician, pol [N. Amer], political leader, politician, politico, pollie [Austral], polly [Austral], seamstress, sempstress

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