Baker (surname)
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This article is about the surname Baker. For other uses, see Baker (disambiguation).
Baker is a common surname and may refer to:
- Anita Baker (born 1958), Grammy Award-winning American rhythm & blues singer-songwriter
- Augustine Baker (1575–1641), Welsh Benedictine monk and ascetical writer
- Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), English engineer
- Brian Baker (musician) (born 1965), American guitar player of punk bands such as Minor Threat, Dag Nasty and Bad Religion
- Bryan Baker (driver) NASCAR driver
- Carroll Baker (born 1931), American actress
- Cheryl Baker (born 1954), British television presenter
- Chet Baker (1929–1988), American jazz musician
- Colin Baker (born 1943), British actor
- Diane Baker (born 1938), American actress
- Dusty Baker (born 1949), American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Dylan Baker (born 1959), American actor
- Eric Baker, a fictional character on the TV show The West Wing
- Eric Baker (activist), one of the founders of Amnesty International
- Frank Baker (1886–1963), American Major League Baseball player
- George Baker, several people
- Ginger Baker (born 1939), English musician, best known for being a member of 60's psychedelic-rock band Cream
- Henry Baker (computer scientist), American computer scientist
- Herbert Baker (1862–1946), South African architect
- Hobey Baker (1892-1918), American sportsman and pilot
- Howard Baker (born 1925), U.S. Senator from Tennessee, U.S. ambassador to Japan
- J. N. L. Baker (1893-1971), British geographer
- James Baker (disambiguation) (or Jim Baker), several people
- James Baker (born 1930), American politician and diplomat, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State
- Janet Baker (born 1933), English mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Jim Baker (frontiersman) (1818–1898), American trapper, scout, and guide
- Joe Don Baker (born 1936), American actor
- John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920), British botanist
- John Roman Baker, British / French-born poet, playwright, activist and journalist
- Josephine Baker (1906–1975), American actress, dancer, and singer
- Kenneth Baker (born 1934), British politician
- Kenny Baker (born 1934), British actor
- Kenny Baker (singer/actor), American singer and actor
- Kenny Baker (trumpeter), British jazz trumpeter
- LaVern Baker (1929–1997), American R&B singer
- Mark Baker (politician) (b. 1958), Australian politician
- Princess Caraboo (Mary Baker) (1791–1865), noted impostor
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), American founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist
- Newton D. Baker (1871–1937), American mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and United States Secretary of War
- Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946), American journalist and author
- Richard Baker, several people
- Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), British explorer
- Stanley Baker (1827–1976), Welsh actor and producer
- Sara Josephine Baker (1873–1945), American doctor and public health worker
- Thomas Baker (or Tom Baker), several people
- Trevor Baker long-serving Welsh TV weatherman
- Vin Baker (born 1971), American basketball player
- Wheeler R. Baker, former Maryland politician
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