Lem

Lem may refer to:

Places

 * 3836 Lem, an asteroid named after Stanisław Lem
 * Lem, Denmark, a municipality in Jutland

Given name or nickname
(Alphabetical by surname)
 * Lemuel Lem Barney (born 1945), American football player
 * Lem Billings (1916–1981), John F. Kennedy's friend
 * Lem Burnham (born 1947), American football player
 * Lem Cross (1872–1930), American Major League Baseball player
 * George Lewis Lem Davis (1914–1970), American jazz saxophonist
 * Lemuel Davis (born 1953), American software engineer
 * Anton Lemuel Lem Dobbs (born 1959), British-American screenwriter
 * Henry Honiball (born 1965), nicknamed "Lem", South African rugby player
 * Lemuel Lem Johnson (1909–1989), American jazz saxophonist
 * Lem T. Jones, Jr. (1924–1995), American politician
 * Thomas Lemuel Lem Johns (1925–2014), American Secret Service agent present during the assassination of John F. Kennedy
 * Lem Overpeck (1911–2003), American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota
 * Lem Tucker (1938–1991), American journalist
 * Lem Winchester (1928–1961), American jazz vibraphone player

Pen name

 * Huw Davies, aka Lem, British artist and author of the webcomic Bunny
 * Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), author typically referred to as Lem

Surname

 * George Ho Lem (1918–2005), Canadian politician
 * Gerard van der Lem (born 1952), Dutch footballer
 * Hans Lem (1875–?), Norwegian gymnast
 * Nguyễn Văn Lém (died 1968), Vietnamese communist guerrilla fighter
 * Peter Mandrup Lem (1758–1828), Danish violin virtuoso
 * Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), Polish science fiction writer

Fictional entities

 * Lem, the main character in the animated science fiction comedy film Planet 51 (2009)
 * Curtis Lemansky, nicknamed Lem, a fictional character in the television series The Shield
 * Lem Nikodinoski, the protagonist in Zhivko Chingo's children's book The Great Water
 * The Lem, a fictional alien race in the Marvel Universe
 * Lem Van Adams, a fictional character in the television series Soul Food
 * Vladimir Lem, a fictional character in Max Payne 1 and 2

Space constructions

 * Lem (satellite), the first Polish scientific satellite, named after Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem
 * Apollo Lunar Module, of the NASA Moon missions, better known as the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM)

Other uses

 * lem, ISO 639-3 code for the Mandi language of Cameroon