Baines is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881 [1], its relative frequency was highest in Rutland (31.2 times the British average), followed by Westmorland, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Montgomeryshire and Bedfordshire. The name Baines may refer to:
- Ajay Baines, Canadian ice hockey player
- Anthony Baines, English musicologist
- Professor Chris Baines (b.1947), English gardener, naturalist, television presenter and author
- Edward Baines (1774–1848), English newspaper-proprietor and politician.
- Edward Baines (1800–1890), son of the above, also a nonconformist English newspaper editor and Member oF Parliament.
- Sir Frank Baines (1877-1933), English architect
- George Washington Baines (1809-1882), grandfather of president Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Gertrude Baines (1894-2009), American supercentenarian and formerly the oldest living person in the world
- Harold "Sweet Swinging" Douglas Baines, former right fielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball
- John Baines (b. 1946), incumbent Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford.
- Kate Baines (b. 1978), English actress
- Leighton Baines (b. 1984), English footballer
- Matthew Talbot Baines (1799-1860), British lawyer and Liberal politician
- Nicholas Baines (b. 1957), Bishop of Croydon
- Nick Baines (b. 1978), English keyboard player (Kaiser Chiefs)
- Paul Baines (b. 1973), British marketing academic
- Peter Augustine Baines (1787-1843), English Benedictine
- Richard Baines, historical figure - Informant against Christopher Marlowe
- Robert A. Baines (b. 1946), former mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire
- Steve Baines (b. 1954), former English footballer
- Thomas Baines (1820–1875), English artist and explorer.
- Thomas Baines (Ontario) (1799-1867), Canadian Crown Land Agent
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