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Wakeman is a village in Huron County, Ohio, situated along the Vermilion River in the state's north-central Firelands region.

The village and township were named for Jesup Wakeman, an early settler of Fairfield County, Connecticut, who speculated in western lands between 1800 and 1840; Wakeman Township was organized in 1824 and is the only Wakeman Township in Ohio.

Wakeman was an Underground Railroad stop — historian Wilbur H. Siebert recorded that local resident Leverett B. Hill assisted 103 freedom seekers on their way to Canada in the single year 1852.

A distinctive stone called Wakeman Buff, or spider web sandstone, was once quarried in the village, and the Cleveland Stone Company worked a Berea sandstone quarry in northern Wakeman from 1877 into the 1910s or 1920s.

After inventor Garrett Morgan sold his traffic signal patent in 1923, he used the proceeds to buy more than a hundred acres of farmland near Wakeman and established the Wakeman Country Club, an all-Black country club.

The 2020 census counted 990 people in Wakeman, down 5.4 percent from 1,047 in 2010, within a village area of about 0.85 square miles.

The 2010 census recorded about 402 households in Wakeman.

Wakeman is served by the Western Reserve Local School District; its high school, now in Collins, was created in 1952 by consolidating the former Wakeman and Townsend high schools as Townsend-Wakeman High School.