Lyman

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.