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
• Ben Ransom (born 1992), English rugby union player
• Ben Ransom (musician), Australian country music songwriter and entertainer
• Bill Ransom (born 1945), American science fiction writer
• 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
• Britt Ransom (born 1987), American artist and academic
• Candice F. Ransom (born 1952), American author
• Caroline L. Ormes Ransom (1826–1910), American painter
• Cody Ransom (born 1976), American baseball player
• David M. Ransom (1938–2003), American diplomat
• Derrick Ransom (born 1976), American football player
• Dunbar R. Ransom (1831–1897), United States Army officer
• Dustin Ransom (born 1986), American musician and film composer
• Eliza Taylor Ransom (1863–1955), Canadian-American physician
• 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
• Gene Ransom (1957–2022), American basketball player
• Harry Ransom (academic administrator) (1908–1976), chancellor of the University of Texas System
• Harry Ransom (footballer) (born 1999), English professional footballer
• Henry Ransom (1911–1987), American golfer
• Holly Ransom (born 1990), Australian public speaker, author and curator
• James Ransom (born 1971), Canadian fencer
• James Ransom (Regulator) (c. 1740–1810), American sheriff and participant in the Regulator movement in colonial America
• Jane Ransom, American popular science writer
• Jeff Ransom (born 1960), American baseball player
• Jessica Ransom (born 1981), British actress and writer
• Joanna Houston Ransom (1897–1980), American educator
• John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974), American poet and academic
• Josephine Ransom (1879–1960), Australian Theosophist and writer
• Julia Ransom (born 1993), Canadian biathlete
• Kim Ransom, Colorado politician
• Kristen Ransom, American computer engineer and social entrepreneur
• Lathan Ransom (born 2002), American football player
• Matt W. 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
• Rhodesia Ransom, American politician
• Richard Ransom (1919–2016), American businessman
• Ro Ransom (born 1993), American rapper
• Robert Ransom Jr. (1828–1892), U.S. senator, civil engineer, and Civil War major general
• Roberto Ransom (born 1960), Mexican writer
• Robin Ransom (born 1967), American judge
• Ronald Ransom (1882–1947), American lawyer and businessman
• Samuel Ransom (1883–1970), American athlete
• Scott Ransom, American physician
• Sheila Kanieson Ransom (born 1954), American artist
• Shorty Ransom (1898–1959), American football coach and athletics administrator
• Terrell Ransom Jr. (born 2003), American actor
• Thomas E. G. Ransom (1834–1864), American surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and Civil War general
• Thomas Ransom (coach) (1870–1946), American football and basketball coach
• Truman B. Ransom (1802–1847), American educator and military officer
• Victor Ransom (1917—1998), English cricketer
• Victoria Ransom, New Zealand entrepreneur
• Willard Ransom (1916–1995), American lawyer, businessman, civic leader and civil rights activist
• William Ransom (1826–1914), British botanist, pharmacist and archaeologist
• William Henry Ransom (1824–1907), English physician and embryologist

• 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

• Ransome (surname)

Surname list

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