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A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Baker and Bakers may also refer to:


Brands and companies

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Baker Skateboards Baker Skateboards is an American skateboarding company founded in 2000 by professional skateboarder Andrew Reynolds. The company's main products are skateboard decks, soft goods, accessories, and wheels. History In 1999 Reynolds went to a sec ...
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Baker's Chocolate Baker's Chocolate is a brand name for the line of baking chocolates owned by Kraft Heinz. Products include a variety of bulk chocolates, including white and unsweetened, and sweetened coconut flakes. It is one of the largest national brands of ch ...
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Baker's Drive-Thru Baker's Drive-Thru is a chain of fast-food restaurants located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The menu features a selection of items such as hamburgers, french fries, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, and milkshakes. Inspired by ...
, chain of fast-food restaurants in Southern California * Baker Hughes, an oilfield services company *
Baker McKenzie Baker McKenzie is an international law firm located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1949, originally named Baker & McKenzie. It now has 77 offices in 46 countries. It employs 4,809 attorneys total, and approximately 13,000 employees tot ...
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Baker's Supermarkets Baker's is a supermarket chain operating primarily in the metro area of Omaha, Nebraska. It is owned by Kroger. Baker's supermarket has an annual revenue of $325,000,000. History Abraham Baker opened his first grocery store in Walnut, Iowa in ...
, U.S. supermarket chain * Baker's bourbon, a
Jim Beam Jim Beam is an American brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory. It is one of the best-selling brands of bourbon in the world. Since 1795 (interrupted by Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition), seven gene ...
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Baker Publishing Group Baker Publishing Group is a Christian book publisher that discusses historic Christian happenings for its evangelical readers. It is based in Ada, Michigan and has six subdivisions: namely Bethany House, Revell, Baker Books, Baker Academic, Chos ...
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians'' is a major reference work in the field of music, originally compiled by Theodore Baker, PhD, and published in 1900 by G. Schirmer, Inc. The ninth edition, the most recent edition, was published in 2 ...
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Law

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Baker v. Carr ''Baker v. Carr'', 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteen ...
'', a 1962 US Supreme Court case that holds that the federal government can review state election districts * '' Baker v. Nelson'', a 1972 Minnesota Supreme Court case holding that gay people do not have a right to marriage * '' Baker v. Vermont'', a 1999 Vermont Supreme Court case holding that gay people have the right to marry in Vermont * Baker Act, common alternate name for the Florida Mental Health Act


Military

* Baker (military code-name), a series of training exercises conducted by the US Army and several Asian countries *
Baker rifle The Baker rifle (officially known as the Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle) was a flintlock rifle used by the rifle regiments of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. It was the first standard-issue, British-made rifle accepted by the British ...
, used by the British Army * "Baker", event of
Operation Crossroads Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the ...
, a nuclear weapon test series conducted by the US in 1946


People

* Baker (surname), various people with the surname (last name) Baker ** Justice Baker (disambiguation), various judges with the surname Baker * Baker Mayfield (born 1995), American football player * Standard author abbreviation of
John Gilbert Baker John Gilbert Baker (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949). Biography Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert ...
(1834 – 1920), English botanist


Places


Place names found in multiple places

* Baker County (disambiguation) * Baker Island (disambiguation), several islands * Baker Lake (disambiguation), several lakes * Baker Mountain (disambiguation), several mountains * Baker Peak (disambiguation), several mountains * Baker River (disambiguation), several rivers in North and South America *
Baker Township (disambiguation) Baker Township may refer to: * Baker Township, Izard County, Arkansas * Baker Township, Lafayette County, Arkansas * Baker Township, Randolph County, Arkansas * Baker Township, Morgan County, Indiana Baker Township is one of fourteen townships in ...
* Mount Baker (disambiguation), several mountains


Canada

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Baker Lake (Nunavut) Baker Lake (Inuktitut: ; 'where the river widens') is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is fed by the Thelon River from the west and the Kazan River from the south. It outflows into Chesterfield Inlet. The lake is approximately ...
, a body of water in Nunavut * Baker River North (Quebec-New Brunswick)


Iran

* Baker, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran * Baker, Mamasani, a village in Fars Province, Iran


United Kingdom

* Baker Street, London, England **
Baker Street tube station Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway (MR), the world's first underground railway, opened ...


United States

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Baker, California Baker is a census-designated place located in San Bernardino County, California, US. As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 735. Baker's ZIP Code is 92309 and the community is within area codes 442 and 760. History Baker wa ...
, in San Bernardino County * Baker, Kern County, California *
Baker, Florida Baker is an unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida Okaloosa County is located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, extending from the Gulf of Mexico to the Alabama state line. As of the 2020 census, the po ...
* Baker, Illinois * Baker, Indiana * Baker (Indianapolis, Indiana) in Indiana * Baker-Devotie-Hollingsworth Block, in Des Moines, Iowa *
Baker, Kansas Baker is an unincorporated community in Brown County, Kansas Brown County (county code BR) is a county located in the northeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. Its county seat an ...
* Baker, Louisiana *
Baker, Minnesota Baker is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clay County, Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populo ...
* Baker, Missouri * Baker, Montana * Baker, Nebraska * Baker, Nevada * Baker, North Dakota * Baker, Oklahoma * Bakers, Tennessee *
Baker, West Virginia Baker is an unincorporated community on the Lost River in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. Baker is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 48, West Virginia Route 55, West Virginia Route 29 and West Virginia Route 259 West Virg ...
* Diocese of Baker in Oregon *
Baker City, Oregon Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker, the only U.S. Senator ever killed in military combat. The population was 10,099 at the time of the 2020 census. History Pl ...
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Mount Baker Mount Baker (Lummi: '; nok, Kw’eq Smaenit or '), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount ...
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Baker Trail The Baker Trail is a hiking trail in western Pennsylvania in the United States. The trail's southern terminus is across the Allegheny River from the borough of Freeport in Armstrong County. Its northern terminus is in State Game Lands No. 24, ...
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Baker University Baker University is a private university in Baldwin City, Kansas. Founded in 1858, it was the first four-year university in Kansas and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Baker University is made up of four schools. The College of Ar ...
, Baldwin City, Kansas, US * Baker House, an undergraduate dormitory at MIT


Other countries

* Bakers, Saint Peter, Barbados, a populated place in the parish of
Saint Peter, Barbados The Parish of Saint Peter ("St. Peter") is one of eleven parishes in the Caribbean island country of Barbados. It is named after the Christian Apostle and patron saint, Saint Peter. It is located in the north of Barbados, and is the only parish ...
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Baker Channel Baker Channel, also known as Calen Inlet, is a channel of Chile located in the Tortel, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. The Baker River discharges into Martinez Inlet, the northern part of this large estuary. It penetrates t ...
, in Chile


Transportation

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Baker Motor Vehicle Baker Motor Vehicle Company was an American manufacturer of Brass Era electric automobiles in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1899 to 1914. History The first Baker vehicle was a two seater with a selling price of US$850. One was sold to Thomas Edi ...
, an early 20th-century electric vehicle * USS ''Baker'' (DE-190), a US Navy destroyer escort in commission from 1943 to 1946 * USS ''Paul G. Baker'', the name of more than one US Navy ship


Other uses

* Baker, a player executing the shake and bake strategy in pickleball


See also

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Backer Backer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Agathe Backer-Grøndahl (1847–1907), Norwegian pianist and composer * Augustin de Backer (1809–1873), Roman Catholic bibliographer * Brad Backer (born 1956), Australian rugby lea ...
* Bakker * Becker (disambiguation) * The Baker (disambiguation) {{disambiguation cleanup, geo, date=December 2022