Ransom (surname)
Ransom or Ransome is an English surname, also found in some trade names and military company names; it might derive either from the noun "ransom" or from contraction of "Ranulf's son". Notable people with the surname include:
- Alured Ransom, American college football coach
- Ben Ransom, English rugby union player
- Ben Ransom (musician), Australian country music songwriter and entertainer
- Bill Ransom, American science fiction writer
- Brayton H. Ransom, American zoologist and parasitologist
- Brian Ransom (politician), Canadian politician
- Brian Ransom (gridiron football), American player of gridiron football
- Britt Ransom, American artist and academic
- Candice F. Ransom, American author
- Caroline L. Ormes Ransom, American painter
- Cody Ransom, American baseball player
- David M. Ransom, American diplomat
- Derrick Ransom, American football player
- Dunbar R. Ransom, United States Army officer
- Dustin Ransom, American musician and film composer
- Eliza Taylor Ransom, Canadian-American physician
- Emma S. Ransom, African-American educator and clubwoman
- Epaphroditus Ransom, American state governor and state supreme court justice
- Freeman Ransom, American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and businessman
- Gene Ransom, American basketball player
- Harry Ransom (academic administrator), chancellor of the University of Texas System
- Harry Ransom (footballer), English professional footballer
- Henry Ransom, American golfer
- Holly Ransom, Australian public speaker, author and curator
- James Ransom, Canadian fencer
- James Ransom (Regulator), American sheriff and participant in the Regulator movement in colonial America
- Jane Ransom, American popular science writer
- Jeff Ransom, American baseball player
- Jessica Ransom, British actress and writer
- Joanna Houston Ransom, American educator
- John Crowe Ransom, American poet and academic
- Josephine Ransom, Australian Theosophist and writer
- Julia Ransom, Canadian biathlete
- Kim Ransom, Colorado politician
- Kristen Ransom, American computer engineer and social entrepreneur
- Lathan Ransom, American football player
- Matt W. Ransom, American state politician and Civil War general
- Melanie Ransom, Canadian politician
- Mike Ransom, American musician
- P. J. G. Ransom, British non-fiction author
- Reverdy Cassius Ransom, African American Christian socialist, civil rights activist, and Methodist bishop
- Rhodesia Ransom, American politician
- Richard Ransom, American businessman
- Ro Ransom, American rapper
- Robert Ransom Jr., U.S. senator, civil engineer, and Civil War major general
- Roberto Ransom, Mexican writer
- Robin Ransom, American judge
- Ronald Ransom, American lawyer and businessman
- Samuel Ransom, American athlete
- Scott Ransom, American physician
- Sheila Kanieson Ransom, American artist
- Shorty Ransom, American football coach and athletics administrator
- Terrell Ransom Jr., American actor
- Thomas E. G. Ransom, American surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and Civil War general
- Thomas Ransom (coach), American football and basketball coach
- Truman B. Ransom, American educator and military officer
- Victor Ransom, English cricketer
- Victoria Ransom, New Zealand entrepreneur
- Willard Ransom, American lawyer, businessman, civic leader and civil rights activist
- William Ransom, British botanist, pharmacist and archaeologist
- William Henry Ransom, English physician and embryologist
Fictional characters
- Cordelia Ransom, in David Weber's Honorverse series of novels
- Elwin Ransom, in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy
- Michael Ransom, from the films Strike Commando and ''Strike Commando 2''