Henry Wells (1805–1878) was an American businessman and co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
Henry Wells was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.
Henry Wells may also refer to:
- Henry Wells (professor) (c. 17th century), English theologian and 10th Gresham Professor of Divinity
- Henry H. Wells (1823–1900), Governor of Virginia
- Henry Gordon Wells (1879–1954), American lawyer and Massachusetts and New Hampshire politician
- Henry Wells (rowing) (1891–1967), English judge and rowing coxswain
- Henry Wells (general) (1898–1973), Chief of the Australian General Staff
- Henry Wells (author) (1914–2007), American author, professor, and expert on Latin America politics
- Henry Jackson Wells (1823–1912), American politician in Massachusetts
- Henry Tanworth Wells (1828–1903), English miniature and portrait painter
- Henry Wells (musician) (1906–?), American jazz musician
- Henry Wells (Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge) (died 1429), English academic
The Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596/7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors.
Henry Horatio Wells, a Michigan lawyer and Union Army officer in the American Civil War, succeeded Francis Harrison Pierpont as the appointed provisional governor of Virginia from 1868 to 1869 during Reconstruction. A Radical Republican labelled a carpetbagger, Wells was defeated for election in 1869 by Gilbert C. Walker, who also became his appointed successor. Wells then served as U.S. Attorney for Virginia and later for the District of Columbia.
Henry Gordon Wells was a lawyer and a Republican politician in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
