Steve Ross (born Steven J. Ross in Elmont, New York on December 29, 1949) is an American motion picture director living in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his documentary Oh Freedom After While, a story of the Missouri sharecropper strike of 1939. Ross received a Bachelor's degree from the State University of New York in 1971 and a Master's degree from New York University in 1974. He is a professor at the University of Memphis and was named Communicator of the Year by the Tennessee Speech Communication Association in 1999.