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 (1835–1922), American theologian and author
• Lyman E. Barnes (1855–1904), American politician
• Lyman K. Bass (1836 – 1889), American politician
• Lyman M. Bass (1876 - 1955), American lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York
• 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 W. White (1858–1910), American politician
• Lyman White (born 1959), former 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), American musician
• Amasa Lyman (1813–1877), an early leader in the Latter-Day Saint movement
• Arthur Lyman (1932–2002), Hawaiian musician
• Bernard Lyman, the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works
• Cam Lyman (1932–1995), American dog breeder
• 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), American 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
• 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, a two-term Republican congressman
• Mark Lyman, founding director of Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) art fairs
• Mel Lyman (1938–1978), American musician and preacher
• Monty Lyman (born 1992), British medical doctor and author
• Paul Lyman (born 1965), English rugby league footballer
• 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
• Sheila Lyman, American politician
• Shelby Lyman (1936–2019), American chess player
• Stanford Lyman (1933–2003), American sociologist
• Theodore Lyman I (1753–1839), American merchant and shipbuilder
• 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), American football player

Characters

• Lyman, an early Garfield comic character
  • Lyman, a character from Gnorm Gnat, also by Jim Davis
• 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

See also

• Lyman (disambiguation)
• Justice Lyman (disambiguation)
• Senator Lyman (disambiguation)
• Lynam (disambiguation), a surname