Ransom (given name)
Ransom is a male given name which may refer to:
- Ransom Cook, American inventor
- Ransom W. Dunham, U.S. Representative from Illinois
- Ransom Dunn, American minister and theologian
- Ransom H. Gillet, U.S. Representative from New York
- Ransom Halloway, U.S. Representative from New York
- Ransom C. Johnson, Michigan politician
- Ransom A. Myers, marine biologist and conservationist
- Ransom E. Olds, American automotive industry pioneer, for whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named
- Ransom Riggs, American writer and filmmaker
- Ransom B. Shelden, Sr., founder of Houghton, Michigan
- Ransom Stephens, American physicist and writer
