In Fiction and Popular Culture
- Lum, an item from the Rayman games
- Lum and Abner, American radio comedy
- Lum Invader, a character from Urusei Yatsura
- Urusei Yatsura, sometimes referred to as Lum, after a major character
- Lum the Mad (Greyhawk)
- Lum the Mad, also known as Scott Jennings, MMORPG commentator
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