11 Notable alumni of Wells College
Updated: June 16, 2026 EliteDegrees
Wells College is ranked #4,813 in the world and #1,265 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Wells College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Wells College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Milicent Hathaway
1898-1974 (aged 76)
nutritionist
Milicent Louise Hathaway was an American nutritionist and physiological chemist best known for her research on human metabolism. She taught at several colleges from 1930 to 1966 and worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the postwar period.
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2. Florence R. Curtis
1873-1944 (aged 71)
librarian
Florence Rising Curtis was a library educator, chiefly known for her work as director of Hampton Institute Library School beginning in 1925. Curtis was born September 30, 1873, in Ogdensburg, New York. Her father was General Newton Martin Curtis and her mother was Emeline Clark Curtis. Curtis died October 6, 1944, in Richmond, Virginia. Curtis was known as a champion...
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3. Charlotte Porter
1857-1942 (aged 85)
writer
journalist
literary historian
translator
poet
Charlotte Endymion Porter was an American poet, translator, and literary critic and the cofounder and coeditor of the journal Poet Lore. As the editor or coeditor of editions of the complete works of William Shakespeare, Robert Browning, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and as a translator of major writers from around the world for Poet Lore, she was influential in shaping...
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4. Helena Zachos
1856-1951 (aged 95)
lecturer
Mary Helena Zachos was an American author, dramatic reader, playwright, professor, and elocutionist. She was the daughter of abolitionist and women's rights activist John Celivergos Zachos. Her father also wrote countless books in the field of elocution and was the library curator and a professor at Cooper Union twelve years after the founding of the institution. Helena followed in her...
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5. Elsa Rehmann
1886-1946 (aged 60)
architect
Elsa Rehmann was an American landscape architect best known for her pioneering ecological approach to garden design. She and Edith A. Roberts promoted seeking inspiration in plant communities, which Rehmann considered to be the basis for design criteria and translated them into artistic composition.
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6. Faith Whittlesey
1939-2018 (aged 79)
diplomat
lawyer
politician
Faith Amy Whittlesey was an American Republican politician, White House Senior Staff member, and author. She was noted for her efforts to communicate Ronald Reagan's entire policy agenda to U.S. opinion leaders and for bringing together for the first time in the Reagan White House evangelical, Catholic, and other conservative religious groups who opposed legalized abortion and were concerned about...
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7. Mary Beckerle
biologist
Mary C. Beckerle is an American cell biologist who studies cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah School of Medicine. At Huntsman Cancer Institute, she is the CEO, and is Associate Vice President for Cancer Affairs at the University of Utah. Beckerle's research helped to define a novel molecular pathway for cell motility, and more recently,...
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8. Kati Marton
1949-. (aged 77)
journalist
writer
Kati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant in 1971, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.
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9. Laura Nader
1930-. (aged 96)
anthropologist
Laura Nader is an American anthropologist. She has been a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley since 1960. She was the first woman to receive a tenure-track position in the department. She is also the older sister of U.S. activist, consumer advocate, and frequent third-party candidate Ralph Nader, and the younger sister of community advocate Shafeek Nader...
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10. Frances Cleveland
1864-1947 (aged 83)
Frances Clara Cleveland Preston was the first lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 until 1897, as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. She was the first to hold the position nonconsecutively. Having married Cleveland at age 21, she was the youngest first lady in American history.
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11. Emma Lampert Cooper
1855-1920 (aged 65)
painter
artist
Emma Lampert Cooper was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability". She studied in Rochester, New York, in New York City under William Merritt Chase, Paris at the Académie Delécluse and in the Netherlands under Hein Kever. Cooper won awards at several World's Expositions, taught art and was an art director. She met her...
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