Baird may refer to:
Places
United States
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Baird, Mississippi
Baird is an unincorporated community located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
Baird is approximately west of Moorhead and southeast of Indianola.
The settlement was named for John Rupert Baird, the former owner of the town sit ...
, an unincorporated community
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Baird, Missouri Baird is an unincorporated community in Dunklin County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by ar ...
, an unincorporated community
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Baird, Texas
Baird is a city and the county seat of Callahan County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,496 at the 2010 census. The city is named after Matthew Baird, the owner and director of the Texas and Pacific Railway. The railway depot is now ...
, a city
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Baird, Washington Baird is a ghost town in Douglas County, Washington, United States. Baird is part of ZIP code 99115 and is home to the Highland Cemetery (also occasionally known as the Baird Cemetery). Baird appears on a 1909 map of Douglas County. The town was l ...
, a community
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Baird Mountains
The Baird Mountains are a mountain range located northeast of the Kotzebue Sound, in between the Kobuk River, Kobuk and Noatak Rivers in Alaska. The range was named after Smithsonian Institution Secretary Spencer F. Baird.
Geographical setting
Th ...
, Alaska
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Baird Inlet Baird Inlet ( esu, Nanvaruk, literally ‘big lake’Jacobson, Steven A. (2012)Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary, 2nd edition. Alaska Native Language Center.) is a 35-mile-long (56 km) bay in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the U.S. state of Alaska. It b ...
, Alaska
Elsewhere
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Baird, Hastings, a local government ward in the county of East Sussex, England
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Baird Island
Baird Island is an island in the Piper Islands National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in Temple Bay about 100 km northeast of Kutini-Payamu National Park and Lockhart River and 50 km south of Cape G ...
, Queensland, Australia
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Baird Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada
People
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Baird (surname) Baird is a common surname of primarily Scottish origins.
A–L
* Absalom Baird (1824–1905), American general for the Union Army in the Civil War
* Allard Baird (born 1961), American baseball executive
* Andrew Baird (disambiguation), several pe ...
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Baird (given name) Baird is a given name which may refer to:
*Baird Bryant (1927–2008), American cinematographer and filmmaker
*Baird Searles (1934–1993), American science fiction author and critic
*Baird T. Spalding (1872–1953), American writer
*Baird Tipson
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Historic American buildings
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Baird Cottage
Baird Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a two-story, side-gabled Colonial Revival style house based on a rectangular floor plan with ...
, Harrietstown, New York
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Baird Hardware Company Warehouse
The Baird Hardware Company Warehouse (also known as the Baird Center) is a historic building in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is located at 619 South Main Street. On November 25, 1985, it was added to the U.S. National Register of His ...
, Gainesville, Florida, also known as the Baird Center
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Baird House (disambiguation) Baird House may refer to:
*Baird House (Opa-Locka, Florida)
The Opa-locka Thematic Resource Area is a group of thematically-related historic sites in Opa-locka, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The area comprises 20 surviving Moori ...
, two houses
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Baird Law Office
The Baird Law Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin was built in the 1830s in Greek Revival style, which was then popular as one of America's first architectural styles that explicitly rejected British practices. The small one-story building measures ju ...
, Green Bay, Wisconsin
*Baird's Tavern, in the town of
Warwick, New York
Warwick is a town in the southwestern part of Orange County, New York, United States. Its population was 32,027 at the 2020 census. The town contains three villages (Florida, Greenwood Lake, and Warwick) and eight hamlets ( Amity, Bellvale, Ed ...
Brands and organizations
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Baird Ornithological Club
The Baird Ornithological Club is a United States ornithological club. Founded in 1921, the club seeks to advance the field of ornithology and foster relationships between fellow ornithologists. The organization was named after Spencer Fullerton Bai ...
, in Reading, Pennsylvania, founded in 1921
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Robert W. Baird & Co., a financial services company
*A brand of television sold by
BrightHouse
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Baird baronets
There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Baird, two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
Overview
The first Baird Baronetcy of Newbyth in the County of Haddington, w ...
, five titles, three in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the UK
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Baird's rule In organic chemistry, Baird's rule estimates whether the lowest triplet state of planar, cyclic structures will have aromatic properties or not. The quantum mechanical basis for its formulation was first worked out by physical chemist N. Colin Bai ...
for triplet states in organic chemistry
* Baird School, a fictional preparatory school in the movie ''
Scent of a Woman''
See also
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Baird's beaked whale
Baird's beaked whale (''Berardius bairdii''), also known as the northern giant bottlenose whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, giant four-toothed whale, northern four-toothed whale and the North Pacific four-toothed whale, is a species of whale ...
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Baird's sandpiper, a small shorebird
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Baird's sparrow
Baird's sparrow (''Centronyx bairdii'') is a species of North American birds in the family Passerellidae of order Passeriformes. It is a migratory bird native to the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Description
The Baird's sparrow can be ident ...
, a small North American bird
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Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities
''Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities'' was a compendium of fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada, published between 1879 and 1991.Lurding, Carroll and Becque, Fran. Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities'' Urban ...
'', a 1879 compendium of fraternities and sororities in the US and Canada
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