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 American name derived from the German Leimann or Leinemann. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Lyman Abbott (1835–1922), American theologian and author
 * Lyman E. Barnes (1855–1904), American politician
 * Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels
 * Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), Presbyterian clergyman and leader of the temperance movement
 * Lyman Bostock (1950–1978), American baseball player
 * Lyman Bostock Sr. (1918–2005), American baseball player
 * Lyman Drake (1852–1932), American baseball player
 * Lyman Duff (1865–1955), eighth Chief Justice of Canada
 * Lyman W. Emmons (1885–1955), American businessman and politician
 * Lyman J. Gage (1836–1927), American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer
 * Lyman Gilmore (1874–1951), aviation pioneer
 * Lyman Hall (1724–1790), a signer of the Declaration of Independence
 * Lyman H. Howe (1856–1923), American film entrepreneur
 * Lyman E. Johnson (1811–1859), American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
 * Lyman T. Johnson (1906–1997), American educator and influential leader of racial desegregation in Kentucky
 * Lyman Lamb (1895–1955), American baseball player
 * Lyman Lemnitzer (1899–1988), U.S. Army general
 * Lyman Linde (1920–1995), American baseball player
 * Lyman Page (born 1957), American astrophysicist
 * Lyman Smith (American football) (born 1956), American football player
 * Lyman Bradford Smith (1904–1997), American botanist
 * Lyman Cornelius Smith (1850–1910), American industrialist
 * Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997), American theoretical physicist
 * Lyman Tremain (1819–1878), New York politician
 * Lyman Truman (1806–1881), New York state senator
 * Lyman Trumbull (1813–1896), United States senator from Illinois during the American Civil War and impeachment of Andrew Johnson
 * Lyman Walker (1799–1886), American politician
 * Lyman Ward (actor) (born 1941), Canadian actor
 * Lyman White (born 1959), American football player
 * Lyman Wight (1796–1858), an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
 * Lyman Young (1893–1984), American cartoonist

Surname

 * Abe Lyman (1897–1957), popular bandleader
 * Amasa Lyman (1813–1877), an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
 * Arthur Lyman (1932–2002), popularizer of a jazzy style of Hawaiian music
 * Bernard Lyman, the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works
 * Cam Lyman (1932–? between 1987 and 1995), transgender man, multi-millionaire, and breeder of champion spaniels
 * Chester Smith Lyman (1814–1890), American teacher, clergyman and astronomer
 * David Belden Lyman (1803–1884), missionary and founder of Hilo, Hawaii boarding school
 * Dorothy Lyman (born 1947), actress, director and producer
 * Edwin Lyman, American 20th-21st century physicist
 * Esther Lyman (1927–1991), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
 * Ethel Louise Lyman (1893–1974), American music librarian
 * Francis M. Lyman (1840–1916), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
 * Hannah Lyman (1816-1871), American educator, biographer
 * Henry Herbert Lyman (1854–1914), Canadian businessman and entomologist
 * Jeff Lyman (born 1950), American football player
 * Joe Lyman, rugby league footballer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s
 * John Lyman (American football) (fl. 1889–1894), American college football player and coach
 * John Lyman (athlete) (1912–1989), American shot putter
 * John Goodwin Lyman (1886–1967), American-Canadian painter
 * Joseph Lyman (1840–1890), Civil War soldier, lawyer, and judge; in the 1880s, he was a two-term Republican congressman
 * Mel Lyman (1938–1978), American musician and preacher
 * Monty Lyman (born October 1992), British medical doctor and author
 * Paul Lyman (born 1965), English rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
 * Peter Lyman (1940–2007), American professor of information science
 * Princeton Lyman (1935–2018), American diplomat
 * Richard M. Lyman (1893–1978), American politician
 * Richard R. Lyman (1870–1963), apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
 * Richard Wall Lyman (1923–2012), American educator and historian, seventh president of Stanford University
 * Rufus Anderson Lyman (1842–1910), judge and planter from Hawaii
 * Samuel Lyman (1749–1802), Congressman from Massachusetts
 * Shelby Lyman (1936–2019), American chess player
 * Stanford Lyman (1933–2003), American sociologist
 * Theodore Lyman II (1792–1849), American philanthropist, politician, and author
 * Theodore Lyman III (1833–1897), American natural scientist, Civil War Union Army lieutenant colonel, and Congressman from Massachusetts
 * Theodore Lyman IV (1874–1954), American physicist and discoverer of the Lyman series
 * Will Lyman (born 1948), American actor
 * William Whittingham Lyman Jr. (1885–1983), also known as Jack Lyman, American writer and academic, primarily in the field of Celtic studies
 * William Lyman (congressman) (1755–1811), Congressman from Massachusetts
 * William R. Lyman ("Link" Lyman, 1898–1972), professional American football player in the 1920s and 1930s

Characters

 * Lyman, an early Garfield comic character
 * James Lyman, from the Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance web series
 * Josh Lyman, on The West Wing TV program
 * Lyman Slime, from Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse, a Canadian animated children's TV series