George Baker may refer to:

Arts

George Baker (British actor) George Morris Baker, MBE (1 April 19317 October 2011) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in ''I, Claudius'', and Inspector Wexford in ''The Ruth Rendell Mysteries''. Early life Baker was born in Varna ...

(1931–2011), British film and television actor * George Baker (art historian) (born 1970), American art historian * George Baker (Indian actor) (born 1946), Indian actor and politician * George Baker (baritone) (1885–1976), British singer * George Baker (cartoonist) (1915–1975), ''Sad Sack'' comic strip *

George Baker (Dutch singer) George Baker (born Johannes "Hans" Bouwens, 8 December 1944) is a Dutch singer and songwriter who, with his band George Baker Selection, scored two international hits in the 1970s, "Paloma Blanca" and " Little Green Bag". Baker also recorded as ...

(born 1944), Dutch singer and songwriter **

George Baker Selection George Baker Selection was a pop-rock band from Assendelft, the Netherlands. The band is best-known for the 1969 song " Little Green Bag" and the 1975 world-wide hit " Paloma Blanca". History In 1968, Hans Bouwens from Wormerveer joined th ...

, Dutch pop music group * George Baker (organist) (1773–1847), English musician * George C. Baker (born 1951), composer and organist * George D. Baker (1868–1933), American film director * George Herbert Baker (1878–1943), American Impressionist artist * George Melville Baker (1832–1890), American playwright and publisher *

George Pierce Baker George Pierce Baker (April 4, 1866 – January 6, 1935) was a professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of ''Dramatic Technique'', a codification of the principles of drama. Biography Baker graduated in the Harvard College class of 188 ...

(1866–1935), American drama professor *

George Philip Baker George Philip Baker (Plumstead, 21 May 1879 – 19 April 1951) was a British author, who published several popular history books in the 1920s and 1930s. Life As Baker was deaf from eight years old, he couldn't serve in the English army, but he w ...

(1879–1951), British author * George Augustus Baker, American portrait painter

Politics

George Baker (Canadian politician) George S. Baker (born September 4, 1942) is a Canadian politician and former member of the Senate of Canada. Baker was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1974 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Gander—Twillinga ...

(born 1942), Canadian senator * George Baker (died 1723), British politician *

George Barnard Baker George Barnard Baker (January 29, 1834 – February 9, 1910) was a Quebec lawyer and political figure. He was a Liberal-Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada representing Missisquoi from 1870 to 1874, from 1879 to 1887 and from ...

(1834–1910), Canadian politician from Quebec * George Harold Baker (1877–1916), Canadian politician and lawyer * George Luis Baker (1868–1941), mayor of Portland, Oregon, 1917–1933 * George W. C. Baker (1872–1953), councilman on the Los Angeles City Council, 1931–1937 * George H. Baker (1859–1928), American politician in the state of Washington *

George Baker (mayor) George Baker (1825–1910) was a British industrialist and Liberal politician and philanthropist. He was born in Birmingham on 11 May 1825, from a long-established Quaker family.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. He was educated ...

, British industrialist, politician and philanthropist, mayor of Birmingham * George Ellis Baker, member of the New York State Assembly

Religion

Father Divine Father Divine (September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African-American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death in 1965. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "t ...

( 1876–1965), American religious leader whose real name was possibly George Baker * George Baker (bishop) ( 1661–1665), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore * George Baker (archdeacon of Totnes) (1687–1772), British Anglican priest * George Baker (dean of Antigua) (fl. 1926–1970), Barbadian Anglican priest * A. George Baker (1849–1918), American Protestant clergyman who converted to Islam

Sports

* George Baker (baseball) (1857–1915), Major League Baseball player * George Baker (cricketer, born 1838) (1838–1870), English cricketer, played for Kent * George Baker (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1879), English cricketer, played for Middlesex * George Baker (cricketer, born 1862) (1862–1938), English cricketer, played for Yorkshire and Lancashire * George Baker (New Zealand cricketer) (1895-1962), New Zealand cricketer * George Baker (footballer) (born 1936), Wales international footballer *

George Baker (jockey) George Baker is a retired British Classic-winning jockey. Baker is the son of a farrier from Lambourn. After leaving school, in July 1999, he joined trainer Mark Usher and had his first winner at Wolverhampton on 4 December on Beauchamp Magic. ...

, English jockey

Others

George Baker (judge) Sir George Gillespie Baker, OBE, PC (25 April 1910–13 June 1984) was President of the Family Division (formerly of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division) of the High Court of Justice from 1971 to 1979 and a Judge in the Division from ...

(1910–1984), British judge *

George Baker (inventor) George Collin Baker (December 21, 1844 - March 23, 1894) was an American inventor and submarine pioneer. In 1888, the US government announced a competition for submarine designs. Plans were submitted by Baker, John Philip Holland, Thorsten Norde ...

(1844–1894), American submarine inventor *

George Baker (surgeon) George Baker (1540–1600), was an English surgeon notable for writing and translating a number of early medical texts. Career as surgeon Baker was a member of the Barber Surgeons' Company and was elected master in 1597. In 1574, when he publi ...

(1540–1600), English surgeon * George Baker (topographer) (1781–1851), topographer and historian of Northampton, England * George Baker (geologist) (1908–1975), Australian mineralogist and academic *George Charlie Baker (fl. 2006), perpetrator of the murder of Liam Ashley *

George Fisher Baker George Fisher Baker (March 27, 1840 – May 2, 1931) was an American financier and philanthropist. Known as the "Dean of American Banking", he was also known for his taciturnity. Baker made a fortune after the Civil War in railroads and banking, ...

(1840–1931), American banker and philanthropist *

George Percival Baker George Percival Baker (1856–1951) was a textile merchant and manufacturer, collector of fabrics from India and Persia, amateur botanist, mountaineer, oarsman, and amateur photographer. Biography George Percival Baker's father George Baker in ...

(1856–1951), British botanist, mountaineer, and textile merchant and collector * George P. Baker (dean of Harvard Business School) (1903–1995), fifth dean of the Harvard Business School * George P. Baker (Herman C. Krannert Professor) (fl. 1987–present), American *

Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet, FRS, FSA (1 January 1722 – 15 June 1809) was physician to King George III. He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, Devon and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton a ...

(1722–1809), British physician {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, George