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Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ...

(1884–1967), English author and journalist *

Ernest L. Ransome Ernest Leslie Ransome (1844–1917) was an English-born engineer, architect, and early innovator in reinforced concrete building techniques. Ransome devised the most sophisticated concrete structures in the United States at the time. Ernest was ...

(1852–1917), Anglo-American architect and concrete engineer *

Frederick Ransome Frederick Ransome (1818–1893) was a British inventor and industrialist, creator of Ransome's artificial stone. Frederick was the son of James Ransome, 1782–1849, a member of the Ransomes steel and agricultural equipment-making family of Ip ...

(1818–1893), British inventor of artificial stone *

Frederick Leslie Ransome Frederick Leslie Ransome, Ph.D. (1868–1935) was a British-born American geologist. Ransome was born in Greenwich, England and educated at the University of California (S.B., 1893; Ph.D., 1896). Ransome described and named the mineral Law ...

(1868–1934), English-American geologist * Gordon Arthur Ransome (1910-1977), Professor of Medicine, First Master of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. *

James Ransome (manufacturer) James Ransome (1782 – 22 November 1849) was an English manufacturer of agricultural implements and components for railways. Life He was born in 1782, the elder son of Robert Ransome, founder of the manufacturer of agricultural implements (late ...

(1782–1849), British agricultural machinery manufacturer, son of Robert Ransome * James Ransome (illustrator), American illustrator of children's books *

James Allen Ransome James Allen Ransome (July 1806 – 29 August 1875), known as Allen Ransome, was an English agricultural-implement maker and agricultural writer, known from his 1843 publication of ''The Implements of Agriculture.'' He was considered as "one of t ...

(1806–1875), British agricultural machinery manufacturer and writer, grandson of Robert Ransome *

Prunella Ransome Prunella Jane Ransome (18 January 1943 – 4 March 2002) was an English actress, primarily active on television and films. Early life Ransome was born in Croydon, Surrey. She later lived in Fareham, England where her father, Jimmy Ransome, wa ...

(1943–2002), English actress *

Robert Ransome Robert Ransome (1753 – 7 March 1830) was an English maker of agricultural implements. He founded the company later known as Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies. Early life and career Robert Ransome was born in Wells, Norfolk, son of Richard Ransome, a s ...

(1753–1830), British founder of an agricultural machinery maker

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