Lynn R Carson

Lynn R. Carson (born 1942) is a Latter-day Saint composer and hymnwriter. He also served for several years as the director of Asian, Indian and Middle-Eastern genealogical record-gathering and oral family history projects for the Family History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Carson served as a missionary for the church in Austria.

The music to the hymns "In Fasting We Approach Thee" and "Sabbath Day" (number 139 and 148 in the 1985 English-language LDS Hymnbook) is by Carson.

Carson also wrote the book The Tintic War and the Deaths of George and Washington Carson.