Lyman

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Lyman may refer to:

Surname:

• Abe Lyman (4 August 1897 - 23 October 1957), popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s
• Amasa M. Lyman (30 March 1813 – 4 February 1877), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Arthur Lyman (2 February 1932 - 24 February 2002), popularizer of a jazzy style of Hawaiian music
• Cam Lyman (4 September 1932 - between 1987 and 1995), a transman, a multi-millionaire, and breeder of champion spaniels
• Dorothy Lyman, actress, director and producer
• Mel Lyman, American cult leader
• Peter Lyman (13 September 1940 - 2 July 2007), American professor of information science
• Richard R. Lyman (23 November 1870 – 31 December 1963), an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1918 to 1943
• Richard Wall Lyman (born 1923), American educator and historian
• Samuel Lyman, Congressman from Massachusetts in 1795-1797
• Theodore Lyman, physicist and discoverer of the Lyman series
• Theodore Lyman (Massachusetts), George Gordon Meade's staff officer (1863-1865), Congressman from Massachusetts in 1883-1885
• Tony Lyman, British broadcaster
• Will Lyman, American actor
• William Whittingham Lyman Jr, (3 January 1885 - 8 November 1983) also known as Jack Lyman, American writer and academic, primarily in the field of Celtic studies.
• William Lyman (congressman) (December 7, 1755 - September 22, 1811), Congressman from Massachusetts in 1793-1797
• William R. "Link" Lyman, professional American football player in 1920s and 1930s.

Given name:

• Lyman Abbott, American theologian and author
• Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian clergyman and leader of the temperance movement
• Lyman Bostock, American professional baseball player
• Lyman J. Gage, American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer
• Lyman Gilmore, aviation pioneer
• Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Lyman Lemnitzer, an American Army general
• Lyman Spitzer, American theoretical physicist
• Lyman Trumbull, United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War and impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Lyman Ward, Canadian actor
• Lyman Wight, early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

Fictional People:

• Lyman, a character in the comic strip Garfield
• Josh Lyman, fictional character on "The West Wing" TV program

Places:

Towns in the United States:

• Lyman, Maine
• Lyman, Mississippi
• Lyman, Nebraska
• Lyman, New Hampshire
• Lyman, South Carolina
• Lyman County, South Dakota
• Lyman, Utah
• Lyman, Washington
• Lyman, Wyoming

Institutions:

• Lyman Estate, a historic country house located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
• Lyman Memorial High School, Lebanon, Connecticut
• Lyman Briggs School of Science, East Lansing, Michigan
• Lyman Hall High School, Wallingford, Connecticut
• Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
• Lyman School for Boys, Westborough, Massachusetts

Natural Phenomena

• Lyman (crater), a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon, named for Theodore Lyman
• The Lyman series of spectral lines (physics)
• Lyman-alpha forest, in astronomical spectroscopy, is the sum of absorption lines arising from the Lyman alpha transition in the spectra of distant galaxies and quasars.