- Richard Sharpe Shaver wrote at least one story on Lemuria that became featured in the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.
- The story and culture of Lemuria is dramatized on the Japanese tokusatsu children's show GoGo Sentai Boukenger which is adapted as Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive. In the Japanese version, the Yellow Ranger Natsuki discovers she is a Lemurian. The Lemurian culture is said to control a great dragon beast controlled by a powerful magical sword. Lemurians appear to be wearing head crests and white robes mentioned in occult fiction. One of the villain factions in the show, the Jaryuu, owe their origins to Lemuria as they are the result of Lemurian scientific experimentation with dinosaur D.N.A.
- In 1982, TOEI released a tokusatsu series, Dai Sentai Goggle V, which each character represents the power of an ancient civilization with Goggle Yellow representing Mu or Lemuria.
- Lemuria is also mentioned in the original 1970s Battlestar Galactica during the pilot episode, which featured an extended version of the opening narration "There are those who believe that life here began out there..." Actor Patrick Macnee, who appeared in the episode War of the Gods as Count Iblis, did the voiceover for the narration. (Mr. Macnee also provided the voice for the Imperious Leader.)
- Lin Carter set a series of sword and sorcery novels in Lemuria.
- H. P. Lovecraft mentioned Lemuria as a previous resting place for the Shining Trapezohedron in the Cthulhu Mythos story "The Haunter of the Dark". In this particular world of fiction, Lemuria may also be Mu or R'lyeh.
- In the video game Golden Sun series for the Game Boy Advance, Lemuria is a major plot point. In the first title, the mythical land of Lemuria is mentioned as the motivation behind the construction of Babi's Lighthouse and in the sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age one of the main characters, Piers, is a Lemurian and later in the game travel to the hidden land of Lemuria is possible.
- In the television show Mighty Max, Virgil was identified as a Lemurian, despite being fowl-like in appearance.
- In Marvel Comics, Lemuria is the underwater home of Princess Llyra, an antagonist to Namor the Sub-Mariner of Atlantis.
- In DC Comics, the Lemurians are a scaly race of humanoids living below the sea; they breathe air, unlike other submarine races of the DC Universe. (Super Team Family #13-14.)
- In the Kull stories by Robert E. Howard, Lemuria is a group of islands that are the peaks of the sunken continent of Mu.
- Lemuria is referenced in the bishoujo suspense game Ever17 and is also where the theme park LeMU, the game's main setting derives its name.
- In episode 16 of Night Head Genesis, the continents of Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu are mentioned. It was said that these highly advanced civilizations capable of both space and time travel fell due to the impact the Minus Energy had on the Earth.
- In Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings, Lemurés is the name of a floating continent, home to the Aegyl race of winged humans.
- In the Afrikaans fiction series Fritz Deelman the main character goes on a rescue mission to save a professor who found a lost treasure that is supposed to come from Lemuria
- Cruise ship in the novel Vitals by Greg Bear, 2002
- In the 2007 S. Shankar-directed Tamil film Sivaji: The Boss, Vivek tells Rajinikanth that Tamil cultural women (standard Tamil women who look after their families) are hard to find in present days as they were absconded with Lemuria Kandam.
- In Daniel Manus Pinkwater's book "Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars," Lemuria is mentioned and discussed.
- In the 3-part TSR Inc. novel series of Agent 13: The Midnight Avenger, written by Flint Dille and David Marconi, based on the Top Secret/S.I. setting, Lemuria was not a sunken continent but a highly advanced civilisation that existed when mankind was in the prehistorical era. One of the lemurian went among the primitive humans, dazzling them into accepting him as their god with his advanced knowledge. In the long run though, his flaws were revealed and they turned against him. His escape back to Lemuria drew the angry hordes directly to the beautiful city which was destroyed.
- The film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad has the bulk of its adventures taking place on the lost continent of Lemuria.
