Lyman (name)
The name Lyman has several origins including as an English topographical name, a Dutch name derived from a Germanic personal name, and an Americanized name derived from the German Leimann or Leinemann. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Lyman Abbott, American theologian and author
- Lyman E. Barnes, American politician
- Lyman K. Bass, American politician
- Lyman M. Bass, American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York
- Lyman Frank Baum, American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels
- Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian clergyman and leader of the temperance movement
- Lyman Bostock, American baseball player
- Lyman Bostock Sr., American baseball player
- Lyman Drake, American baseball player
- Lyman Duff, eighth Chief Justice of Canada
- Lyman W. Emmons, American businessman and politician
- Lyman J. Gage, American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer
- Lyman Gilmore, aviation pioneer
- Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Lyman H. Howe, American film entrepreneur
- Lyman E. Johnson, American leader in the Latter-Day Saint movement
- Lyman T. Johnson, American educator and influential leader of racial desegregation in Kentucky
- Lyman Lamb, American baseball player
- Lyman Lemnitzer, U.S. Army general
- Lyman Linde, American baseball player
- Lyman Page, American astrophysicist
- Lyman Smith (American football), American football player
- Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist
- Lyman Cornelius Smith, American industrialist
- Lyman Spitzer, American theoretical physicist
- Lyman Tremain, New York politician
- Lyman Truman, New York state senator
- Lyman Trumbull, United States senator from Illinois during the American Civil War and impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Lyman Walker, American politician
- Lyman Ward (actor), Canadian actor
- Lyman W. White, American politician
- Lyman White, former American football player
- Lyman Wight, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
- Lyman Young, American cartoonist
Surname
- Abe Lyman, American musician
- Amasa Lyman, an early leader in the Latter-Day Saint movement
- Arthur Lyman, Hawaiian musician
- Bernard Lyman, the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works
- Cam Lyman, American dog breeder
- Chester Smith Lyman, American teacher, clergyman and astronomer
- David Belden Lyman, missionary and founder of Hilo, Hawaii boarding school
- Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer
- Edwin Lyman, American 20th-21st century physicist
- Esther Lyman, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
- Ethel Louise Lyman, American music librarian
- Francis M. Lyman, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Hannah Lyman, American educator, biographer
- Henry Herbert Lyman, Canadian businessman and entomologist
- Jeff Lyman, American football player
- Joe Lyman, rugby league footballer
- John Lyman (American football), American college football player and coach
- John Lyman (athlete), American shot putter
- John Goodwin Lyman, American-Canadian painter
- Joseph Lyman, Civil War soldier, lawyer, and judge; in the 1880s, a two-term Republican congressman
- Mark Lyman, founding director of Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design art fairs
- Mel Lyman, American musician and preacher
- Monty Lyman, British medical doctor and author
- Paul Lyman, English rugby league footballer
- Peter Lyman, American professor of information science
- Princeton Lyman, American diplomat
- Richard M. Lyman, American politician
- Richard R. Lyman, apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- Richard Wall Lyman, American educator and historian, seventh president of Stanford University
- Rufus Anderson Lyman, judge and planter from Hawaii
- Samuel Lyman, Congressman from Massachusetts
- Sheila Lyman, American politician
- Shelby Lyman, American chess player
- Stanford Lyman, American sociologist
- Theodore Lyman I, American merchant and shipbuilder
- Theodore Lyman II, American philanthropist, politician, and author
- Theodore Lyman III, American natural scientist, Civil War Union Army lieutenant colonel, and Congressman from Massachusetts
- Theodore Lyman IV, American physicist and discoverer of the Lyman series
- Will Lyman, American actor
- William Whittingham Lyman Jr., also known as Jack Lyman, American writer and academic, primarily in the field of Celtic studies
- William Lyman (congressman), Congressman from Massachusetts
- William R. Lyman, American football player
Characters
- Lyman, an early Garfield comic character
- James Lyman, from the Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance webseries
- Josh Lyman, on The West Wing television program
- Lyman Slime, the carnival villain from Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, a Canadian animated children's TV series