John Baker may refer to:

Contents 1 Military figures 2 Political figures 3 Sports figures 4 Others 5 See also

[edit] Military figures

• Colonel John Baker, American Revolutionary War hero, 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), 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), political activist, founded the village of Baker Brook, New Brunswick
• John Baker (Australian politician) (1813–1872), 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 c. 1960), American dogsled racer
• John Baker (baseball), American baseball player
• John Baker (diver), 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), runner from the University of New Mexico that was invited to run in the Olympics
• Johnny Baker (1907–1979), American football player and coach
• John Baker, Jr., professional football player and sheriff of Wake County, North Carolina
• John Baker (punter) (born 1977), American football punter
• John W. Baker (born 1942), American football defensive end

[edit] Others

• John Baker (biologist) (1900–1984), biologist and professor at Oxford University remembered for his study of race
• John Baker, Baron Baker (1901–1985), engineer
• John Baker (novelist) (born 1942), British novelist
• John Baker, British musician and member of The Korgis
• John Baker (NZ music historian), New Zealand music historian
• John Baker (Radiophonic musician) (1937–1997), composer and musician at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1963–1974)
• John Baker (legal historian) (born 1944), English legal historian, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
• John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920), British botanist
• John Henry Baker (professor) (born 1936), American author and professor Emeritus of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
• J. N. L. Baker (John Norman Leonard Baker), Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford
• John Roman Baker, playwright and activist
• John Baker (entrepreneur), President of Desire2Learn

[edit] See also

• Jack Baker (disambiguation)

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