Lyman (name)

Given name

• Lyman Abbott, American theologian and author
• Lyman E. Barnes, American politician
• 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 professional 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, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Lyman H. Howe, American film entrepreneur
• Lyman Lemnitzer, U.S. Army general
• Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist
• 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 , Canadian actor
• Lyman Wight, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

  Middle name

• John Lyman Smith, American politician

  Surname

• Abe Lyman, popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s
• Amasa Lyman, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Arthur Lyman, popularizer of a jazzy style of Hawaiian music
• Bernard Lyman, the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works
• Cam Lyman, transgender man, multi-millionaire, and breeder of champion spaniels
• Chester Smith Lyman, American teacher, clergyman and astronomer
• David Belden Lyman, missionary and founder of Hilo, Hawaii boarding school
• Dorothy Lyman, actress, director and producer
• Edwin Lyman, of the Union of Concerned Scientists
• Eric Lyman, U.S. journalist and writer
• Esther Lyman, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Francis M. Lyman, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Joe Lyman, rugby league footballer of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s
• John Lyman , American athlete
• Joseph Lyman, Civil War soldier, lawyer, and judge; in the 1880s, he was a two-term Republican congressman
• John Goodwin Lyman, American-Canadian painter
• Mel Lyman, American cult leader
• Paul Lyman, English rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s
• Peter Lyman, American professor of information science
• Princeton Lyman, American diplomat
• Richard R. Lyman, apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1918 to 1943
• 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 in 1795–1797
• Shelby Lyman, American chess player
• Stanford Lyman, American sociologist
• Theodore Lyman, physicist and discoverer of the Lyman series
• Theodore Lyman , George Gordon Meade's staff officer, Congressman from Massachusetts in 1883–1885
• 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 from Massachusetts in 1793–1797
• William R. Lyman, professional American football player in 1920s and 1930s

  Characters

• Lyman, an early Garfield comic character
• James Lyman, a character from
• Josh Lyman, a character on The West Wing TV program
• Lyman, a character from Animal Crossing