Ransom (surname)
# 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 (1908–1992), American college football coach
* Brayton H. Ransom (1879–1925), American zoologist and parasitologist
* Brian Ransom (politician) (1940–2020), Canadian politician
* Brian Ransom (gridiron football) (born 1960), American player of gridiron football
* Candice F. Ransom (born 1952), American author
* Cody Ransom (born 1976), American professional baseball player
* Emma S. Ransom (1864-1943), African-American educator and clubwoman
* Epaphroditus Ransom (1798–1859), American state governor and state supreme court justice
* Freeman Ransom (1880–1947), American lawyer, civil rights advocate, and businessman
* Harry Ransom (1908–1976), chancellor of the University of Texas System
* John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic
* Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826–1904), American state politician and Civil War general
* Melanie Ransom (living), Canadian politician
* Mike Ransom (born 1977), American musician
* P. J. G. Ransom (1935–2019), British non-fiction author
* Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861–1959), African American Christian socialist, civil rights activist, and Methodist bishop
* Robert Ransom, Jr. (1828–1892), U.S. senator, civil engineer, and Civil War major general
* Robin Ransom (born 1967), American judge
* Thomas E. G. Ransom (1834–1864), American surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and Civil War general
* Truman B. Ransom (1802 – 1847), Vermont educator and military officer who served as President of Norwich University and commander of a regiment in the Mexican–American War. He was killed at the Battle of Chapultepec.
* Willard Ransom (1916–1995), American lawyer, businessman, community civic leader, and a civil rights activist

## 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
