Baker (disambiguation)
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Baker can refer to:
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- Baker - the cooking profession
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[edit] Place Names
Baker is the name of some places including:
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- Chile
- Baker Canal
- Baker River, Chile
- Other
- Baker Island, an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific Ocean
- Baker River (disambiguation page), several rivers in North and South America
- Baker Street, in London, England
- Baker Street tube station
- The Baker Street Irregulars, characters in the Sherlock Holmes novels
- Diocese of Baker in Oregon
- Mount Baker, situated in Washington state
- Baker Hall at Cornell University
- Baker House, an MIT dorm (see List of MIT undergraduate dormitories#Baker House)
- Baker Skateboards
[edit] Songs
- Baker Street, a song by Gerry Rafferty
- Ma Baker, a song by Boney M
[edit] People
For people whose surname is or was Baker see People named Baker; especially prominent examples include:
- Anita Baker (born 1958), Grammy Award winning American Rhythm & Blues singer/song writer
- Augustine Baker (1575–1641), Welsh Benedictine monk and ascetical writer
- Benjamin Baker (1840–1907), English engineer
- 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
- 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
- Father Divine (c. 1880–1965), (born George Baker), African-American spiritual leader
- George Baker (actor) (born 1931), British film and television actor
- George Baker (cartoonist) (1915–1975), "Sad Sack" comic strip
- George Baker (Dutch singer and songwriter), Dutch recording artist
- George Baker (politician) (born 1942), Canadian Senator
- George Baker (record singer) (1885–1976), UK recording artist, best known for his Gilbert & Sullivan records
- George Fisher Baker (1840–1931), American financier and philanthropist
- 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
- Howard Baker (born 1925), U.S. Senator from Tennessee, U.S. ambassador to Japan
- James Baker (born 1930), American politician and diplomat, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State
- James Chamberlain Baker (1879–1969), American Bishop of the Methodist Church
- James Gilbert Baker (1914–2005), American optician and astronomer
- Janet Baker (born 1933), English mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Jim Baker (Mountain Man) (1818–1898), American trapper, scout, and guide
- Joe Don Baker (born 1936), American actor
- John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920), British botanist
- 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
- LaVern Baker (1929–1997), American R&B singer
- Princess Caraboo (Mary Baker) (1791–1865), noted impostor
- Mark Baker (b. 1958), Australian politician
- 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 (disambiguation page), many people, including:
- Richard Baker (Australian politician) (1842–1911), first President of the Senate
- Richard Baker (broadcaster) (born 1925), BBC broadcaster
- Richard Baker (chronicler) (1568–1645), English chronicler
- Richard Baker (composer/conductor) (born 1972), British composer and conductor
- Richard Baker (game designer), American author and game designer
- Richard Baker (MSP) (born 1974); Scottish politician
- Richard Baker (politician) (born 1948); American politician
- 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
- Tom Baker (born 1934), English actor
- Gerrald Baker (1994 to present)
[edit] Other
- Baker v. Carr and Baker v. Vermont, court cases in the United States
- Ned Baker, a metasyntactic variable
- Baker (military code-name), the code-name for a series of training exercises conducted by the United States Army and several Asian countries
- "Baker", an event of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States in the summer of 1946
- Baker Rifle was a rifle designed by Ezekiel Baker, used by the British Army (most famously by the 60th Royal American and 95th Rifles) during the Napoleonic Wars.
[edit] See also
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