John Baker

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There are several persons known by the name John Baker:

Contents 1 Military figures 2 Political figures 3 Sports figures 4 Others

[edit] Military figures

• Colonel John Baker was a hero of the American Revolutionary War, for whom Baker County, Georgia was named.
• John Baker (RAF officer) (1897-1978), British air marshal
• John Drayton Baker (born 1915), United States Navy officer
• John Baker (general) (1936–2007) was the Australian Chief of the Defence Force (1995–1998)
• John F. Baker, Jr. (born 1945), Medal of Honor recipient

[edit] Political figures

• John Baker (English statesman) (1488–1558), Speaker of the House of Commons, 1545–1552
• John Baker (representative) (died 1823), United States congressman from Virginia
• John Baker (Baker Brook) (1796–1868) was a 19th century political activist, who founded the village of Baker Brook, New Brunswick
• John Baker (Australian politician) (1813–1872) was briefly the Premier of South Australia in 1857
• Sir John Baker (Portsmouth politician) (1828–1909), Liberal Member of Parliament for Portsmouth 1906–1910
• John Baker (UK politician) (1867–1939), British Labour MP for Bilston 1924–1931
• John Baker, Jr., sheriff of Wake County, North Carolina and professional football player
• John Harris Baker, 19th century United States congressman
• John Henry Baker (born 1934), Louisiana political candidate

[edit] Sports figures

• John Baker (musher) (born circa 1960), an American dogsled racer
• John Baker (baseball), American baseball player
• John Baker (cyclist), John Baker is an American Cyclocross racer.
• John Baker (diver) was a British diver at the Olympics.
• John Baker (footballer), Ghanaian international footballer in squad that won 1982 African Cup for the fourth time.
• John Baker (runner), John Baker was a runner from the University of New Mexico that was invited to run in the Olympics.
• Johnny Baker (1907–1979), an American football player and coach

[edit] Others

• John Baker (biologist) (1900–1984) was a biologist and professor at Oxford University remembered for his study of race
• John Baker, Baron Baker (1901–1985), engineer
• John Baker (novelist) (born 1942) is a British novelist
• John Baker (musician) is a video game musician
• John Baker (British musician) is a member of The Korgis
• John Baker (NZ music historian) is a New Zealand music historian
• John Baker (Radiophonic musician) (1937–1997), a composer and musician at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1963–1974)
• John Baker (legal historian) (born 1944) is an English legal historian, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
• John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920), British botanist
• J. N. L. Baker (John Norman Leonard Baker) was a Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford
• John Roman Baker, playwright and activist