# 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 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 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
* Sheila Lyman, American politician
* 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