Ransom (disambiguation)

Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved.

Ransom may also refer to:

Entertainment

Film

• Ransom!, a 1956 film starring Glenn Ford
• Ransom (1975 film), starring Sean Connery
• Ransom (1996 film), a 1996 remake of the 1956 film, starring Mel Gibson
• Ransom (Portuguese: O Resgate), a 1990 film directed by Joaquim Leitão and starring Cherie Lunghi

Literature

• Ransom (novel), a 2004 novel by Danielle Steel
• Ransom Trilogy, an alternate name for The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
• Ransom (Malouf novel), a 2009 novel by David Malouf
• Ransom (McInerney novel), a 1985 novel by Jay McInerney
• Ransom, a 1966 young-adult novel by Lois Duncan

Music

• The Ransom EP, an EP by Cartel
• "Ransom", a song by Pendulum; a non-album track from Immersion
• "The Ransom", a song by Escape the Fate from There's No Sympathy for the Dead

Fictional characters

• Cordelia Ransom, a character in David Weber's Honorverse series of novels
• Elwin Ransom, a character in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy
• Michael Ransom, a character from Strike Commando and Strike Commando 2
• Rudy Ransom, a character from the episode "Equinox" of Star Trek: Voyager

People

• Ransom (surname) (or Ransome), a family name

Places

• Ransom, Illinois, US
• Ransom, Kansas, US
• Ransom County, North Dakota, US
• Ransome, Queensland, Australia
• Ransom Township (disambiguation)

Other uses

• Ransome Airlines, an American commuter airline
• USS Ransom (AM-283), a U.S. Navy minesweeper during World War II
• Ransom School for Boys, a school in Florida, US, that in 1975 merged with a girls' school to become Ransom Everglades

See also

• Ransom Room (El Cuarto del Rescate), a small room in Peru where the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was imprisoned by the Spaniards
• Ramsons, a wild relative of chives
• RANSUM (Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine)