Welles is a surname, and may refer to:
- Beatice Welles-Smith, daughter of Orson Welles
- Chris Welles Feder, daughter of Orson Welles
- Egon Wellesz (Egon Joseph Wellesz, 1885–1974), Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist
- Gideon Welles (1802-1878), American Secretary of the Navy 1861-1869
- Gwen Welles (1947-1993), film and stage actress, real name Gwen Goldberg
- Jeanne Kohl-Welles, current Washington State Senator
- Jennifer Welles, American porn star
- Joan Welles, 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (died 1475)
- John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles (1352–1421)
- Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles (1406–1461)
- Marc Welles, actor, grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, son of Rebecca Welles
- Mel Welles (c1922-2005), American film actor, real name Ira Meltcher
- Orson Welles (George Orson Welles, 1915-1985), American actor and director
- Rebecca Welles:
- Rebecca Welles (1944-2004), daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
- Rebecca Welles (Weis), American television actress, spouse of TV director Don Weis, real name Reba Tassell
- Rebecca Wells (1952-), actress, playwright, author of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- Robert Welles, 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (executed 1470)
- Samuel Paul Welles (1907-1997), American paleontologist
- Sumner Welles (Benjamin Sumner Welles, 1892-1961), American Under Secretary of State 1937-1943
- Terri Welles (1956-), American flight attendant, "Playmate of the year" 1981, born Terri Knepper
- Tori Welles (1967-), American porn star
- Wade Welles, fictional television character in the show Sliders
See also
- Edmund Welles, a San Francisco bass clarinet quartet
- USS Welles (DD-257) United States Navy destroyer
- USS Welles (DD-628) United States Navy destroyer
- Wells (disambiguation)


