Cynthia Haymon-Coleman (born September 6, 1958, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American soprano.
She received a bachelor's degree of music in vocal performance from Northwestern University.
In 2016, she retired from the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and presently teaches privately from her studio in Champaign, Illinois.
Her operatic roles include Bess in Porgy and Bess, Liù in Turandot, Mimì in La bohème, Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Micaela in Carmen, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro.
She gave the world premiere of John Williams' "Seven for Luck" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a piece for soprano and orchestra based on the texts of Rita Dove.