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.
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Ransom or The Ransom may also refer to:
Places
- 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
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, a 1985 novel by Jay McInerney
- Ransom (Duncan novel), a 1966 novel by Lois Duncan
- The Ransom, by Grace Livingston Hill 1933
- Ransom (Garwood novel), a 1973 novel by Julie Garwood
Film and television
- The Ransom (film), a lost 1915 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
- "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
Music
- "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
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
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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
- 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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