What is "ransome"

Ransome may refer to:

• Ransome, Queensland, Australia, a suburb of Brisbane
• 6440 Ransome, an asteroid
• Ransome Airlines, a regional airline in the United States
• Ransome (surname)
• Ransome Gillett Holdridge (1836-1899), an early San Francisco school painter
• Ransome Judson Williams (1872-1970), American politician and 102nd Governor of South Carolina

Ransome is the surname of:

• Arthur Ransome (1884–1967), English author and journalist
• Ernest L. Ransome (1852–1917), Anglo-American architect and concrete engineer
• Frederick Ransome (1818–1893), British inventor of artificial stone
• Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868–1934), English-American geologist
• James Allen Ransome (1806–1875), British agricultural machinery manufacturer and writer, grandson of Robert Ransome
• Prunella Ransome (1943–2002), English actress
• Robert Ransome (1753–1830), British founder of an agricultural machinery maker