title: Ransom (surname)
text: # 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
  