Dave Ross (born April 10, 1952) is a talk show host on Seattle's KIRO-FM radio station, with whom he had been a news anchor from 1978 until his talk show started nine years later in 1987. He has sometimes broadcast his show while on assignment in other locations, including overseas, such as Baghdad, Iraq in April 2004. Ross is also heard on the CBS Radio Network, where he provides daily political commentary.Ross was the 2004 Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington's 8th congressional district. For more than three decades in his spare time he has been performing with the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society.