H.G. Wells was driving through San Antonio, Texas and stopped to ask the way. The person he happened to ask was none other than Orson Welles who had recently broadcast "The War of the Worlds" on the radio. They got on well and spent the day together.

He appears on the sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.

His great grandson Simon Wells directed the 2002 remake of The Time Machine (based on his novel).