Ransom (given name)
Ransom is a male given name which may refer to the following people:
- Ransom Cook, American inventor
- Ransom W. Dunham, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Ransom Dunn, American minister and theologian
- Ransom L. Ford, American politician from Michigan
- Ransom H. Gillet, U.S. Representative from New York
- Ransom Halloway, U.S. Representative from New York
- Ransom C. Johnson, American politician from Michigan
- Ransom Asa Moore, American agronomist and professor
- Ransom B. Moore, California pioneer and Arizona Territory legislator
- Ransom A. Myers, American-Canadian marine biologist and conservationist
- Ransom E. Olds, American automotive industry pioneer, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named
- Ransom Riggs, American writer and filmmaker
- Ransom B. Shelden Sr., founder of Houghton, Michigan
- Ransom Stephens, American physicist and writer