Peter Wells

Peter Henry Wells (22 October 1937 – 25 December 2005) was an Australian politician.

He was born in St Arnaud in Victoria to railway employee Harry Stevens Wells and Alice Rebecca Eileen Blackman Lingwood. In 1955 he became a minister and welfare worker with the Salvation Army in Western Australia, and in 1960 became a draftsman and sampler with Central Norseman Gold Mines. On 4 February 1961 he married Dorothy Eva Clarke, with whom he had three children. He also worked as a part-time lecturer in cartography at mining schools in Norseman and Kalgoorlie. From 1970 he was chief exploration draftsman for International Nickel Australia.