The following is a list of individuals associated with Wellesley College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff. Dates indicate the year of graduation.

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• Edith Abbott – social worker, educator, and author
• Myrtilla Avery – classical scholar focused on Medieval art, former chair of Department of Art at Wellesley College and director of the Farnsworth Art Museum 1930–1937^[3] Introduced the first art history classes at Wellesley & the earliest museum studies courses.
• Emily Greene Balch – economist, peace activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Katharine Lee Bates – author of America the Beautiful; also Wellesley College alumna.
• Carolyn Shaw Bell – economist
• Frank Bidart – poet
• Laura Bornholdt – historian and Dean of the College
• Harriet Boyd-Hawes – archaeologist
• Howard Mayer Brown – musicologist
• Judy Brown – physicist
• Mary Bunting – microbiologist and academic administrator
• Bryan E. Burns – archeologist
• Ellen Burrell – head of Pure Mathematics department, 1897-1916
• Alice Huntington Bushee – writer
• Mary Whiton Calkins – philosopher
• Annie Jump Cannon – astronomer
• Karl "Chip" Case – economist
• Dan Chiasson – poet
• Katharine Coman – economist
• Francis Judd Cooke – composer
• Rose Laub Coser – sociologist
• Sirarpie Der-Nersessian – art historian
• Carlos Dorrien – sculptor
• Katharine May Edwards – Professor of Greek, classics scholar
• Alicia Erian – novelist
• Alona E. Evans – political scientist
• David Ferry – poet and translator
• Edmund Barry Gaither – art historian
• Marshall Goldman – economist and author
• June Goodfield – philosopher and historian of science
• Jorge Guillén – poet
• Ellen Hildreth – computer scientist
• Kathleen Hirsch – writer
• Walter Houghton – historian of Victorian literature
• Marian E. Hubbard – zoology professor
• Nannerl O. Keohane – political theorist; president of the college 1981–1993; also Wellesley College alumna
• Philip L. Kohl – anthropologist
• Hedwig Kohn – physicist
• Mary Lefkowitz – classical scholar; also Wellesley College alumna
• Tom Lehrer – singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician
• Jon D. Levenson – theologian
• Peggy Levitt – sociology
• Margaret Eliza Maltby – physicist
• Julián Marías – philosopher
• Tony Martin – historian
• Mildred H. McAfee – former president of Wellesley College, first director of the WAVES
• Louise McDowell – physicist, first U.S. woman to work at the National Bureau of Standards
• Alison McIntyre – philosopher
• Helen Abbot Merrill – mathematician (and alumna)
• Vladimir Nabokov – author
• James F. O'Gorman – architectural historian
• Julia Swift Orvis – taught history and political science 1899–1941
• Alice Freeman Palmer – educator, first woman president of a nationally known college (Wellesley College)
• Josephine Preston Peabody – poet, dramatist
• Ellen Fitz Pendleton – mathematician, former president of Wellesley College, alumna
• Robert Pinsky – poet
• Adrian Piper – philosopher
• Judith Roitman – mathematician
• Richard Rorty – philosopher
• Paul J. Sachs – art historian
• Allen Sapp – musician
• Alice T. Schafer – mathematician
• Alan Schechter – political scientist
• Vida Dutton Scudder – writer, educator, welfare activist
• Mary Sears – oceanographer
• Marilyn Sides – writer
• Marion Elizabeth Stark – mathematician
• Emily Vermeule – classical scholar and archaeologist
• Claude Vigée – poet
• Alice Walker – author
• Sarah Frances Whiting – astronomer and physicist, founder of the Whitin Observatory
• Mary Emma Woolley – Bible scholar, academic administrator
• Richard Yarde
• Mabel Minerva Young – mathematician