Lyman

Lyman may refer to:

People

Surname

• Abe Lyman (1897–1957), popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s
• Amasa Lyman (1813–1877), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Arthur Lyman (1932–2002), popularizer of a jazzy style of Hawaiian music
• 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 (1803–1883), missionary and founder of Hilo, Hawaii boarding school
• Dorothy Lyman, actress, director and producer
• Eric Lyman, U.S. journalist and writer
• Mel Lyman, American cult leader
• Peter Lyman (1940–2007), American professor of information science
• Richard R. Lyman (1870–1963), 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, seventh president of Stanford University
• Rufus Anderson Lyman (1842–1910), Judge and planter from Hawaii
• 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 (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 in 1793–1797
• William R. Lyman ("Link" Lyman), professional American football player in 1920s and 1930s

Given name

• Lyman Abbott, American theologian and author
• Lyman Beecher, 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, U.S. 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 short-lived character in the comic strip Garfield
• Josh Lyman, character on The West Wing TV program

Places

In the United States:

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

Institutions

• Lyman Briggs College of Michigan State University
• Lyman Estate, a historic country house located in Waltham, Massachusetts
• Lyman Hall High School, Wallingford, Connecticut
• Lyman High School, Longwood, Florida
• Lyman House Memorial Museum, Hilo, Hawaii
• Lyman Memorial High School, Lebanon, Connecticut
• 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, the sum of absorption lines arising from the Lyman alpha transition in the spectra of distant galaxies and quasars