Helen McGaffey Searles (1856 – 1936) was a Canadian-born, American professor, classicist, and women's suffragist.

She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1898, and taught Latin at Mount Holyoke College from 1899 until her retirement in 1922.

[3] After graduating in 1898, Searles taught for less than one year at the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University in Pittsburgh) before accepting a position teaching Latin at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1899.

[5] Searles retired from Mount Holyoke in 1922 but remained associated with the college and held the title of Professor Emeritus until her death on April 15, 1936, at the age of 80, in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

[2][6][7] The Helen Searles Mount Holyoke College Personnel File is held in the Archives and Special Collections at Mt.