John Baird may refer to:

Sports

John Baird (American football) John Baird (born c. 1877) was an American football player. He played at the Fullback (gridiron football), fullback and quarterback positions for Princeton University from 1895 to 1898 and was selected as a member of the 1896 College Football All- ...

(born ), All-American football player *

John Baird (Australian footballer) John Baird (born 11 June 1980) is an Australian rules footballer who played with the Kangaroos in the Australian Football League (AFL). Baird, a defender, was promoted from the Kangaroos rookie list to play 14 games with the club in the 2002 ...

(born 1980), Australian rules footballer * John Baird (cyclist), former racing cyclist from New Zealand * John Baird (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1905), Scottish footballer *

John Baird (footballer, born 1985) John David Baird (born 22 August 1985) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward. He currently plays for Football West State League Division 1 side Mandurah City. Baird has also previously played for Clyde, St Mirren, Stenhousemuir, Mo ...

, Scottish footballer playing for Forfar Athletic * John Campbell Baird (1856–1902), Scottish footballer

Politics and government

John Baird, Lord Newbyth Sir John Baird of Newbyth (by East Linton), Lord Newbyth (1620–1698), was a Scottish advocate, judge, politician and diplomat. He served as Commissioner for Aberdeenshire in the Parliament of Scotland. Baird was the son of James Baird of Byth ...

(1620–1698), Scottish advocate, judge, politician and diplomat *

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven John Lawrence Baird of Urie, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, 1st Baron Stonehaven, 2nd Baronet, 3rd of Ury, (27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941) was a British politician who served as the eighth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1925 to 193 ...

(1874–1941), eighth Governor-General of Australia *

John Baird (Canadian politician) John Russell Baird (born May 26, 1969) is a retired Canadian politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He had been a member of the federal cabinet, in various posi ...

(born 1969), Canadian politician and former cabinet minister * John Baird (Michigan politician) (1859–1934), Michigan State Representative and Senator

British MPs

Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet, of Newbyth (13 October 1686 – 30 September 1745) of Newbyth, Haddington, was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Life Baird was the eldest son of Sir William Baird who was th ...

(1686–1745), Scottish Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire *

John Baird (North West Lanarkshire MP) John Baird, DL, JP (17 February 1852 – 8 July 1900), was a Scottish Unionist politician. Biography Baird was the son of John Baird, 1st of Ury, and his wife Margaret Findlay, and younger brother of Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet, Lord Li ...

(1852–1900), Member of Parliament, 1885–1886 *

John Baird (Wolverhampton MP) John Baird (26 May 1906 – 21 March 1965) was a British dental surgeon and Labour Party politician. Born in Glasgow, he was the son of Alexander and Mary Baird. After leaving school he worked initially as a coalminer, before attending St. M ...

(1906–1965), British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1945–1964 * John George Alexander Baird (1854–1917), Member of Parliament for Glasgow Central

Military officers

* John Baird (educator) (1795–1858), Irish-born British Army instructor *

John Baird (RAF officer) Air Marshal Sir John Alexander Baird, (25 July 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a British physician and a retired Royal Air Force medical officer who served as Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces from 1997 to 2000. Baird was appointed ...

(1937–2020), British physician and Royal Air Force medical officer *

John Baird (revolutionary) John Baird (born 1 September 1790, died in Stirling, 8 September 1820) was a Scottish revolutionary. A weaver by trade, he was brought up in the village of Condorrat. He is best remembered as a radical commander in the "Radical War" of 1820, ...

(1790–1820), Scottish commander in the "Radical War" of 1820 *

John Baird (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir John Kennedy Erskine Baird, KCB was an officer in the Royal Navy, who is chiefly remembered for commanding the losing side in the 1888 annual naval manoeuvres. Early life Baird was born on 16 September 1832, the fourth son of Sir ...

(1832–1908), Victorian British Admiral

Divines

* John Baird (Irish divine) (died 1804) * John Baird (Scottish divine) (1799–1861)

Others

John Baird I John Baird (1799–1859) was a Glasgow architect of the 19th century, also called John Baird Primus by Thomas Gildard (from the book ''An Old Glasgow Architect on some Older Ones'') in order for people to be able distinguish him from a sec ...

(1798–1859), Glasgow architect *

John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demo ...

(1888–1946), Scottish engineer, invented the first working television system * John Wallace Baird (1869–1919), Canadian psychologist *

John Washington Baird John Washington Baird (February 22, 1852 – 1923)Jeremy Gaige, ''Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography'', McFarland & Company, 1987, p. 19. . was a minor American chess master, who played in a number of American and international chess tournaments ...

(1852–1923), American chess master *John Baird, founder of the ''