Ransome is the

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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 (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 United States, 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 ...

(1868–1934), English-American geologist * Gordon Arthur Ransome (1910-1977), Professor of Medicine, First Master of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. * James Ransome (manufacturer) (1782–1849), British agricultural machinery manufacturer, son of Robert Ransome * James Ransome (illustrator), American illustrator of children's books * James Allen Ransome (1806–1875), British agricultural machinery manufacturer and writer, grandson of Robert Ransome * Prunella Ransome (1943–2002), English actress * Robert Ransome (1753–1830), British founder of an agricultural machinery maker

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