Lemuel Herbert Murlin (November 16, 1861 – June 20, 1935), was the third president of Boston University.

He was born on November 16, 1861, in Neptune, Ohio, to Orlando Murlin and Esther Hankins.

[1] He became president of Baker University in Kansas in 1893.

[2] In 1924 he became the president of DePauw University and served until 1928 when he retired due to ill health, and was replaced by Garfield Bromley Oxnam.

[3] He died on June 20, 1935, in Wayland, Michigan, predeceasing by four years his wife, whom he had married in 1893.