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.

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Ransom or The Ransom may also refer to:

• Ransom (surname)
• Ransom (given name)

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

• Ransom (Cleary novel), a 1973 novel by Jon Cleary
• Ransom (Duncan novel), a 1966 novel by Lois Duncan
• Ransom (Garwood novel), a 1999 novel by Julie Garwood
• Ransom (Malouf novel), a 2009 novel by David Malouf
• Ransom (Steel novel), a 2004 novel by Danielle Steel
• Ransom Trilogy or The Space Trilogy, a 1938–1945 series of novels by C. S. Lewis
• Ransom, a 1985 novel by Jay McInerney

• The Ransom (1915 film), a lost silent drama
• 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
• The Ransom (1977 film), an American thriller film starring Oliver Reed
• Ransom (1996 film), an American remake of the 1956 film, starring Mel Gibson
• Ransom (TV series), a 2017 Canadian TV series
• "Ransom" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), a 2020 episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• "The Ransom", a 1970 episode of Hawaii Five-O
• "The Ransom", a 1967 episode of The Invaders
• "The Ransom", a 1966 episode of Mission: Impossible

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

• 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

• 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
• RANSUM (Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine), based at Sydney, Australia
• Threshold pledge system or ransom publishing model, a fund-raising system

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