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Ross Eustace Geller, Ph.D., (born October 18, 1967) is a fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), played by David Schwimmer.

Ross later went to college where he met Chandler Bing, with whom he formed the band 'Way No Way', and Carol Willick, who became his first wife. At college, Ross trained for a career in paleontology (on a dare), completing his Ph.D., and later became employed at the New York Museum of Prehistoric History. In the episode where Rachel moves out of Monica's apartment, Ross claims to have "given up a career in basketball" to become a paleontologist. He also claims that he would have been good at advertising. In "The One with the Mugging", Ross claims that he invented the phrase 'Got Milk?'. After Monica questions this claim, Ross turns to Joey and mentions that he "should have written it down". He also claims to have had the idea for Jurassic Park and Die Hard (coincidentally his, Chandler's and Joey's favorite movie) stolen from him. Ross's love of dinosaurs became a running joke throughout the series. Monica ponders when Ross's dinosaur stories would become extinct.

Ross was forced to take a "sabbatical" as he called it, from the museum due to a problem with rage, amplified by the recent stress of his second divorce, losing his apartment and having to move in with Chandler and Joey, after his sandwich was half eaten and thrown in the bin by the director of the museum. He later found a job as a professor at New York University and caused a stir among his peers when he dated one of his students for a while. Eventually, he was given tenure, despite it being clear that he is a mediocre teacher: forgetting classes, boring his students to sleep or giving away grades without actually taking a look at the evaluations. In the series' finale, he reveals that his students usually give him bad evaluations at the end of year, but passes this off as them being distraught over the fact he won't be teaching them again.

Ross comes into conflict with Phoebe Buffay most of all. Ross' scientific beliefs and Phoebe's self-devised beliefs led to conflict over the theories of evolution, gravity where Phoebe feels like she is being pushed down, and whether or not Phoebe's dead mother had been reincarnated into a cat. Also, it is revealed in "The One with the Mugging" that Phoebe once mugged Ross during her homeless years. She kept Ross's own childhood cartoon strip named "Science Boy" (who had a super-human thirst for knowledge) in a box labeled "crap from the street" (claiming it was stuff she thought was too important to sell or smoke). Phoebe claims she learned a lot from Science Boy. The evening Ross found out that Carol is a lesbian Phoebe and Ross almost had sex in the club that was to become Central Perk, but they were interrupted by their friends.

• Although the producers were coy about the Friends' religious backgrounds, it was revealed that Ross and Monica's father was Jewish and their mother was not. That said, Ross is seen attempting to get his son Ben to celebrate Hanukkah, by dressing up as a character he invented named the 'Holiday Armadillo'. On another occasion, Chandler alludes to Ross's being Jewish when Ross goes to steal a Bible from a hotel and Chandler says, "Besides it's a New Testament! What are you gonna do with it?." Ross simply shrugs and says he'll learn about Jesus. Finally, Ross once notes that he bought his sister Monica a Hanukkah present, when others were participating in a Secret Santa.
• Ross appeared on the sitcom The Single Guy.
• Mitchell Whitfield was the second choice for Ross Gellar, with his fiancee Leah Remini as Rachel.