Evelyn Kendrick Wells (February 20, 1891 – August 1979) was an American folklorist and educator, on the faculty of Wellesley College from 1936 to 1956.

[2] Wells worked at the Hartridge School in New Jersey after college.

[7] She served on the board of directors of the Northeast Folklore Society.

[8] Before 1940, Wells lived with her older cousin, Eliza Hall Kendrick, who taught Biblical history at Wellesley.

[15] Wells died in 1979, at the age of 88, in Summit, New Jersey.