Ransom (surname)
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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
- Melanie Ransom (living), Canadian politician
- Mike Ransom (born 1977), American musician
- P. J. G. Ransom, British non-fiction author
- Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861–1959), African American Christian socialist, civil rights activist, and Methodist bishop
- Robert Ransome, British agricultural engineer, related to Arthur Ransome
- 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
[edit] See also
- Beko Ransome-Kuti (1940–2006), Nigerian human rights activist
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