Wallace Notestein (December 16, 1878 – February 2, 1969) was an American historian and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale University from 1928 to 1947.

[1] During his lengthy tenure in Minnesota, he published his first book titled A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 through the American Historical Association.

[4] In 1919, Notestein was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Europe after World War I.

[6] Notestein stayed at Cornell for eight years, during which he was appointed the Goldwin Smith Chair of English History, before leaving to become a Sterling Professor at his alma mater, Yale.

[2] Notestein married women's educational pioneer and former president of Radcliffe College, Ada Comstock in 1943.