Lyman

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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
• 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, of the Union of Concerned Scientists
• Eric Lyman (born 1965), U.S. journalist and writer
• 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)
• Joe Lyman (?–?), rugby league footballer of the 1910s, '20s and '30s for Dewsbury
• John Lyman (athlete) (1912–1989), American athlete
• Joseph Lyman (1840–1890), Civil War soldier, lawyer, and judge; in the 1880s, he was a two-term Republican congressman
• John Goodwin Lyman (1886–1967), American-Canadian painter
• Mel Lyman (1938–1978), 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 (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 in 1795–1797
• Theodore Lyman (1874–1954), physicist and discoverer of the Lyman series
• Theodore Lyman (Massachusetts) (1833–1897), George Gordon Meade's staff officer (1863–1865), Congressman from Massachusetts in 1883–1885
• 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 in 1793–1797
• William R. Lyman ("Link" Lyman, 1898–1972), professional American football player in 1920s and 1930s

Given name

• Lyman Abbott (1835–1922), American theologian and author
• Lyman E. Barnes (1855-1904), American politician
• Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), Presbyterian clergyman and leader of the temperance movement
• Lyman Bostock (1950–1978), American professional baseball player
• Lyman Duff (1865–1955), eighth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Lyman J. Gage (1836–1927), American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer
• Lyman Gilmore (1874–1951), aviation pioneer
• Lyman Hall (1724–1790), signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Lyman H. Howe (1856–1923), American film entrepreneur
• Lyman Lemnitzer (1899–1988), U.S. Army general
• Lyman Bradford Smith (1904–1997), American botanist
• 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 Wight (1796–1858), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

Fictional people

• Lyman, an early Garfield comic character
• James Lyman, character from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
• 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, South Dakota
• Lyman County, South Dakota
• Lyman, Utah
• Lyman, Washington
• Lyman, Wyoming

In Ukraine

• Lyman, Ukraine

Other places

• Lyman Block, a historic commercial building at 83-91 Main Street in Brockton, Massachusetts
• Lyman Lake petroglyphs, a site significant to North American Archaeology. Located in Arizona, United States, in Lyman Lake State Park

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

• Liman (landform), a flooded mouth of river either estuary-like or lagoon-like
• 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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Lyman"
• John Lyman (disambiguation)
• Lyman Johnson (disambiguation)
• Lyman Johnson (disambiguation)
• Richard Lyman (disambiguation)