- Logan has stated that he has been a "film geek" since a young age, with his favorite filmmakers including David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Stanley Kubrick.
- He has said that he signed on to play d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (2011) because Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers was his grandfather's favorite book as a child, and practically the only book he was able to take with him when he left Nazi Germany.
- Logan attended Beverly Hills High School, from which he graduated in 2010. His yearbook quote was "Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." The line appeared in the opening moments of the 2009 Coen Brothers film A Serious Man (2009). The film credited the line to Rashi (1040-1105), a medieval Talmudist.
- Appeared with Mel Gibson twice in 2000, once as his character's son in The Patriot (2000) and once as the younger version of his own character in What Women Want (2000).
- He announced to his mother at the age of 2 1/2 that he was going to be an actor, after watching a Jackie Chan movie.
- His family owns a prosthetics company named Lerman & Son. His great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman, founded the company in 1915.
- He has stated that his three favorite performances are Edward Norton in Fight Club (1999), Kevin Spacey in American Beauty (1999), and Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976).
- Is best friends with Dean Collins. The two met on set of Jack & Bobby (2004) and make short films in their free time.
- Was considered for the role of Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (2013). Douglas Booth was cast instead.
- Logan is of entirely Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Logan's grandparents were born in 4 different countries. Logan's paternal grandfather, Max Lerman, was born in 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish family from Poland. They left Germany in the 1930s, because of the Nazi regime, and lived in Shanghai, China, until the late 1940s (in the 1930s and early 1940s, Shanghai took in Jewish refugees). Logan's paternal grandmother, Mina Schwartz, was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Abraham and Zisla. Logan's maternal grandfather, Jay Goldman, was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Logan's maternal grandmother, Susan Freeman (originally "Freedman"), was born in Los Angeles, California; Susan's parents, who were raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, were both from Jewish families from Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, and Lithuania).
- Was considered for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), before the role went to Andrew Garfield. On April 10, 2010, Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Logan was "almost 100% locked" in to play the role, a story carried by most film news sites. In both the 2010 and 2015 casting cycles for Spider-Man, no actor reported by film websites as being all-but-confirmed for the role has ever ended up actually cast as Spider-Man. The other actors erroneously reported to have been cast are Jamie Bell (in early June 2010), Josh Hutcherson (on June 30, 2010, one day before the official casting of Andrew Garfield), Dylan O'Brien (in March 2015), and Asa Butterfield (in May 2015).
- His mother, Lisa (Goldman), works as his manager, and his father, Larry Lerman, is an orthotist and businessman.
- Has said that his biggest ambition is to direct films, and that his acting work is a stepping stone to becoming a director.
- During his interview in Rosario Dawson/Logan Lerman/Megan Thee Stallion (2020) revealed that while filming My One and Only (2009), Renée Zellweger found out about his interest in music and gifted him a guitar that he's used ever since.
- Has two siblings, Lindsey Lerman and Lucas Lerman.
- Logan attended Hebrew School and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, in a Conservative Jewish synagogue.
- The Jack & Bobby (2004) theme music is from The Patriot (2000), composed by John Williams. Lerman also starred in The Patriot (2000); it was his first movie role as Mel Gibson's youngest son.
- Plays the piano and is a fan of movie music compositions.
- Plays soccer and baseball (both team sports) and plans to take tennis lessons.
- Owns two dogs, named Lola and Stella.
- Has appeared in two films with Jason Isaacs, The Patriot (2000), as William Martin and Col. William Tavington, and Fury (2014), as Norman Ellison and Captain Waggoner, respectively. Both are war films. In the former, their characters were on opposite sides, and in the latter, working together.
- Logan is a relative, by marriage, of twin singers Evan Lowenstein and Jaron Lowenstein. One of Logan's maternal great-grandfathers, born Louis Abraham Freedman, had a sister named Esther Freedman. Esther's husband, Joseph Winestock, had a sister, Adella Winestock, who was one of Evan and Jaron Lowenstein's maternal great-grandmothers.
- Formed a band called Indigo with Dean Collins in 2006, along with musician Daniel Pashman; Collins sang lead vocals, Lerman played keyboard and guitar, and Pashman played the drums.
- Logan is an LA Lakers fan.
- In November 2023, Lerman announced his engagement to Artist Analuisa Corrigan. After three years of dating.
- Is said to resemble Dylan Minnette, Zac Efron, Robby Benson, and Dylan O'Brien. Lately, others have added Pete Buttigieg to the list.
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