Objective To analyze the potential causal relationship between sunscreen/ultraviolet protection and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma using a two sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study method. Methods The summary data of genome-wide association study was used to select three types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, namely diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma, T/NK cell lymphoma, and sunscreen/ultraviolet protection highly correlated genetic loci, namely single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), as instrumental variables. The reverse variance weighting method was used as the main method for MR analysis, MR Egger and MR-PRESO were used to detect level pleiotropy, and leave-one-out method was used for sensitivity analysis to ensure the robustness of the results. Results A total of 132 SNPs were included in the analysis. The results of the inverse variance weighted analysis showed that sunscreen/ultraviolet protection increased the incidence of DLBCL [odds ratio=2.439, 95% confidence interval (1.109, 5.362), P=0.027]. The heterogeneity test results showed that there was no heterogeneity in the causal relationship between sunscreen/ultraviolet protection and DLBCL (P>0.05). The results of the horizontal pleiotropy test showed that SNP did not exhibit horizontal pleiotropy (P>0.05). The leave-one-out method showed that no SNP with a significant impact on the results was found. There was no causal relationship between sunscreen/ultraviolet protection and follicular lymphoma and T/NK cell lymphoma. Conclusion There is a positive causal relationship between sunscreen/ultraviolet protection and the incidence of DLBCL.