Webster Wells (1851–1916) was an American mathematician known primarily for his authorship of mathematical textbooks.

Wells was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (now a part of Boston) on September 4, 1851.

Beginning in 1863, Wells studied at the West Newton English and Classical School (aka the Allen School) in West Newton, Massachusetts, and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1873 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

[4] Webster Wells married Emily Walker Langdon in Boston on June 21, 1876.

[5] In Europe at the outbreak of World War I, Wells and his wife returned to Brookline on the refugee ship Principe di Undine.