diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 517176da89..af05f4423c 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ repos:
     rev: v1.1.1
     hooks:
     -   id: mypy
-        additional_dependencies: [types-requests, types-tabulate]
+        additional_dependencies: [types-requests, types-tabulate, pandas-stubs]
diff --git a/bigframes/pandas/__init__.py b/bigframes/pandas/__init__.py
index fc008f36e5..4b0ac4310c 100644
--- a/bigframes/pandas/__init__.py
+++ b/bigframes/pandas/__init__.py
@@ -577,7 +577,22 @@ def read_gbq_table(
 read_gbq_table.__doc__ = inspect.getdoc(bigframes.session.Session.read_gbq_table)
 
 
+@typing.overload
 def read_pandas(pandas_dataframe: pandas.DataFrame) -> bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame:
+    ...
+
+
+@typing.overload
+def read_pandas(pandas_dataframe: pandas.Series) -> bigframes.series.Series:
+    ...
+
+
+@typing.overload
+def read_pandas(pandas_dataframe: pandas.Index) -> bigframes.core.indexes.Index:
+    ...
+
+
+def read_pandas(pandas_dataframe: Union[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series, pandas.Index]):
     return global_session.with_default_session(
         bigframes.session.Session.read_pandas,
         pandas_dataframe,
diff --git a/bigframes/series.py b/bigframes/series.py
index e7b358c2fe..7e2b0408b7 100644
--- a/bigframes/series.py
+++ b/bigframes/series.py
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ def map(
             map_df = map_df.rename(columns={arg.name: self.name})
         elif isinstance(arg, Mapping):
             map_df = bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame(
-                {"keys": list(arg.keys()), self.name: list(arg.values())},
+                {"keys": list(arg.keys()), self.name: list(arg.values())},  # type: ignore
                 session=self._get_block().expr.session,
             )
             map_df = map_df.set_index("keys")
diff --git a/bigframes/session/__init__.py b/bigframes/session/__init__.py
index ac266da3bd..c7605e89d7 100644
--- a/bigframes/session/__init__.py
+++ b/bigframes/session/__init__.py
@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@
 
 # Avoid circular imports.
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import bigframes.core.indexes
     import bigframes.dataframe as dataframe
+    import bigframes.series
 
 _BIGFRAMES_DEFAULT_CONNECTION_ID = "bigframes-default-connection"
 
@@ -963,7 +965,23 @@ def read_gbq_model(self, model_name: str):
         model = self.bqclient.get_model(model_ref)
         return bigframes.ml.loader.from_bq(self, model)
 
+    @typing.overload
+    def read_pandas(
+        self, pandas_dataframe: pandas.Index
+    ) -> bigframes.core.indexes.Index:
+        ...
+
+    @typing.overload
+    def read_pandas(self, pandas_dataframe: pandas.Series) -> bigframes.series.Series:
+        ...
+
+    @typing.overload
     def read_pandas(self, pandas_dataframe: pandas.DataFrame) -> dataframe.DataFrame:
+        ...
+
+    def read_pandas(
+        self, pandas_dataframe: Union[pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series, pandas.Index]
+    ):
         """Loads DataFrame from a pandas DataFrame.
 
         The pandas DataFrame will be persisted as a temporary BigQuery table, which can be
@@ -986,13 +1004,31 @@ def read_pandas(self, pandas_dataframe: pandas.DataFrame) -> dataframe.DataFrame
             [2 rows x 2 columns]
 
         Args:
-            pandas_dataframe (pandas.DataFrame):
-                a pandas DataFrame object to be loaded.
+            pandas_dataframe (pandas.DataFrame, pandas.Series, or pandas.Index):
+                a pandas DataFrame/Series/Index object to be loaded.
 
         Returns:
-            bigframes.dataframe.DataFrame: The BigQuery DataFrame.
+            An equivalent bigframes.pandas.(DataFrame/Series/Index) object
         """
-        return self._read_pandas(pandas_dataframe, "read_pandas")
+        import bigframes.series as series
+
+        # Try to handle non-dataframe pandas objects as well
+        if isinstance(pandas_dataframe, pandas.Series):
+            bf_df = self._read_pandas(pandas.DataFrame(pandas_dataframe), "read_pandas")
+            bf_series = typing.cast(series.Series, bf_df[bf_df.columns[0]])
+            # wrapping into df can set name to 0 so reset to original object name
+            bf_series.name = pandas_dataframe.name
+            return bf_series
+        if isinstance(pandas_dataframe, pandas.Index):
+            return self._read_pandas(
+                pandas.DataFrame(index=pandas_dataframe), "read_pandas"
+            ).index
+        if isinstance(pandas_dataframe, pandas.DataFrame):
+            return self._read_pandas(pandas_dataframe, "read_pandas")
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"read_pandas() expects a pandas.DataFrame, but got a {type(pandas_dataframe)}"
+            )
 
     def _read_pandas(
         self, pandas_dataframe: pandas.DataFrame, api_name: str
diff --git a/tests/system/small/test_session.py b/tests/system/small/test_session.py
index 28a3f03860..eb6a0a8dd9 100644
--- a/tests/system/small/test_session.py
+++ b/tests/system/small/test_session.py
@@ -421,6 +421,21 @@ def test_read_pandas(session, scalars_dfs):
     pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
+def test_read_pandas_series(session):
+    idx = pd.Index([2, 7, 1, 2, 8], dtype=pd.Int64Dtype())
+    pd_series = pd.Series([3, 1, 4, 1, 5], dtype=pd.Int64Dtype(), index=idx)
+    bf_series = session.read_pandas(pd_series)
+
+    pd.testing.assert_series_equal(bf_series.to_pandas(), pd_series)
+
+
+def test_read_pandas_index(session):
+    pd_idx = pd.Index([2, 7, 1, 2, 8], dtype=pd.Int64Dtype())
+    bf_idx = session.read_pandas(pd_idx)
+
+    pd.testing.assert_index_equal(bf_idx.to_pandas(), pd_idx)
+
+
 def test_read_pandas_inline_respects_location():
     options = bigframes.BigQueryOptions(location="europe-west1")
     session = bigframes.Session(options)