Norman Ross

Norman DeMille Ross was an American competition swimmer from the early twentieth century who died on 19 June 1953. He won five events at the Inter-Allied Games held near Paris in June 1919 and then took three gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Over his career he set thirteen world records and won eighteen United States national championships, which made him one of the dominant freestyle swimmers of his era. He is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. After he stopped competing he became a popular Chicago radio personality, known to listeners as Uncle Normie, and his son Norman A. Ross Jr. later became a well known radio and television host, corporate executive and civic leader in the same city.