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Ransom (disambiguation) 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". * Alured Ransom (1908–1992), American college football coach * Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), British journalist, spy, and children's author * Brian Ransom (born 1940), Canadian state politician * Candice F. Ransom (living), American author * Cody Ransom (born 1976), American professional baseball player * Epaphroditus Ransom (1798–1859), American state governor and state supreme court justice * Ernest L. Ransome (1852-1917), Anglo-American architect and concrete engineer * Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868–1934), English-American geologist * Frederick Ransome‎ (1818–1893) British inventor of artificial stone * 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 * Mike Ransom (born 1977), American musician * Melanie Ransom (living), Canadian politician * 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 * Thomas E. G. Ransom (1834–1864), American surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and Civil War general * Tim Ransom (born 1960), American designer and author