Evans Woollen (November 28, 1864 – May 20, 1942) was an American lawyer, banker, political figure, and college football coach.

Woollen graduated from Yale University in 1886 with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree from Yale in 1889.

In 1886 he taught the first Wabash College football team how to play the game.^[1] In 1889 he served as head coach at Indiana University. His career college football record is 2–2–1.^{[citation needed]}

In 1912, Woollen founded the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company.

Woolen ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1896 and the United States Senate in 1926. Woollen was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the United States presidential election of 1928,^[2] in which he won only his own state of Indiana and failed to capture the nomination.