Ransom (disambiguation)

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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 or The Ransom may also refer to:

People

• Ransom (surname)
• Ransom (given name)

Places

• Ransom, Illinois, U.S.
• Ransom, Kansas, U.S.
• Ransom, Kentucky, U.S.
• Ransom County, North Dakota, U.S.
• Ransom Township (disambiguation)
• Ransom House (disambiguation), various buildings on the National Register of Historic Places

Books

• The Ransom, poem by Charles Baudelaire
• Ransom (Steel 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 — a retelling of part of the Iliad
• Ransom (Cleary novel), a 1973 novel by Jon Cleary
• Ransom (McInerney novel), a 1985 novel by Jay McInerney
• Ransom, a 1966 young-adult novel by Lois Duncan
• The Ransom, by Grace Livingston Hill 1933

Film and television

• Ransom (1928 film), a lost American silent film
• Ransom!, a 1956 American film starring Glenn Ford
• Ransom (1974 film), a UK film starring Sean Connery
• Ransom (1996 film), an American remake of the 1956 film, starring Mel Gibson
• Ransom (Portuguese: O Resgate), a 1990 film directed by Joaquim Leitão and starring Cherie Lunghi
• The Ransom (film), 1977 film directed by Richard Compton
• The Ransom of Red Chief TV Movie 1998 based on the classic story by O. Henry
• The Ransom, episode of Hawaii Five-O 1970
• The Ransom, episode of The Invaders 1967
• The Ransom, episode of Mission: Impossible 1966
• Ransom (TV series), a 2016 Canadian TV series

Music

• "Ransom" (song), by Australian band Pendulum
• "Ransom", a song by Avion (band) 1986
• The Ransom EP, a 2004 EP by Cartel
• "The Ransom", a song by Escape the Fate from There's No Sympathy for the Dead
• "The Ransom", a song by Cartel from The Ransom (Cartel EP)

Other uses

• USS Ransom (AM-283), a U.S. Navy minesweeper during World War II
• Ransom School for Boys, a school in Florida 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
• Ransome (disambiguation)
• Ramsons, a wild relative of chives
• Ransomware (malware), a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands a ransom in order for the restriction to be removed
• RANSUM (Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine)
• Threshold pledge system or ransom publishing model, a fund-raising system