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- George Baker (surgeon)George Baker (surgeon)George Baker , was an English surgeon notable for writing and translating a number of early medical texts.-Biography:Baker was a member of the Barber Surgeons' Company and was elected master in 1597...
(1540–1600), English surgeon - Sir George Baker, 1st BaronetGeorge Baker, 1st BaronetSir George Baker, Bt, MD, FRS, FSA was an English physician.He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1749 he went to Leyden University to study physic, becoming MD in 1756...
(1722–1809), British physician - George Baker (English musician)George Baker (English musician)-Biography:Baker was probably born in 1773. He himself, at the tune of his matriculation at Oxford in 1797, stated his age to be twenty-four, thus dating his birth at 1773; in after life, however, he considered himself to have been born in 1750...
(1773–1847) - George Baker (topographer)George Baker (topographer)George Baker , topographer and historian, was a native of Northampton, England.While a schoolboy, at the age of 13, he wrote a manuscript history of Northampton, and from that time he was always engaged in enlarging his collections...
(1781–1851), topographer and historian of Northampton, England - George Barnard BakerGeorge Barnard BakerGeorge Barnard Baker was a Quebec lawyer and political figure. He was a Liberal-Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Missisquoi from 1870 to 1874, from 1879 to 1887 and from 1891 to 1896 and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1875 to 1878...
(1834–1910), Canadian politician from Quebec - George Fisher Baker (1840–1931), U.S. banker and philanthropist
- George Baker (baseball)George Baker (baseball)George F. Baker , born George F. Boecke, was an American Major League Baseball player who played catcher from 1883 to 1886. He played for the Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Maroons, and Kansas City Cowboys....
(1857–1915), Major League Baseball player - George Baker (cricketer)George Baker (cricketer)George Robert Baker was an English first-class cricketer, who played seven matches for Yorkshire in 1884, and then 227 games for Lancashire between 1887 and 1899.-Life and career:...
(1862–1938), British cricketer - George Pierce BakerGeorge Pierce BakerGeorge Pierce Baker was an American educator in the field of drama.Baker graduated in the Harvard University class of 1887, and taught in the English Department at Harvard from 1888 until 1924. He started his "47 workshop" class in playwrighting in 1905. He was instrumental in creating the Harvard...
(1866–1935), U.S. drama professor - George Harold BakerGeorge Harold BakerGeorge Harold Baker was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911 as a Member of the Conservative Party to represent the riding of Brome...
(1877–1916), Canadian politician and lawyer - George Herbert BakerGeorge Herbert BakerGeorge Herbert Baker was an American Impressionist artist who worked primarily in the Richmond, Indiana area and was a member of the "Richmond Group" of painters. He worked in oil, watercolor and pastels...
(1878–1943), American Impressionist artist - George Baker (record singer)George Baker (record singer)George Baker was an English singer. He is remembered for singing on thousands of gramophone records in a career that spanned 53 years, beginning in 1909...
(1885–1976), British baritone - George Baker (judge)George Baker (judge)Sir George Gillespie Baker was a British judge. He was President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice from 1971 to 1979....
(1910–1984), President of the Family Division - George Baker (cartoonist)George Baker (cartoonist)George Baker was a cartoonist who became prominent during World War II as the creator of the popular comic strip, The Sad Sack.-Early life and education:...
(1915–1975), Sad Sack comic strip - George Baker (actor)George Baker (actor)George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...
(1931-2011), British film and television actor - George Baker (politician)George Baker (politician)George S. Baker, PC is a Canadian politician and 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 for Gander—Twillingate, in Newfoundland and Labrador...
(born 1942), Canadian Senator - George Baker (musician) (born 1944), Dutch singer and songwriter
- George C. BakerGeorge C. BakerGeorge C. Baker is an American organist, composer, pedagogue, and dermatologist.- Biography :George C. Baker received his first musical instruction at age four. In 1961, he began to take organ lessons with Phil Baker, organist at Highland Park Methodist Church in Dallas. He completed his organ...
(born 1951), composer and organist - George Baker (art historian)George Baker (art historian)George Baker is an American art historian of modern and contemporary art. He is a professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles and an editor of October journal...
, American art historian - George W. C. BakerGeorge W. C. BakerNot to be confused with Earle D. Baker, Los Angeles City Council member, 1951–59.George Washington Conrad Baker , known as George W.C. Baker, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1931 to 1935....
, councilman on the Los Angeles City Council, 1931–1937 - Father DivineFather DivineFather Divine , also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as "the Messenger" early in his life...
(c. 1876–1965), U.S. religious leader whose real name was possibly George Baker - Tom Baker (footballer)Tom Baker (footballer)Thomas George Baker was a Welsh international footballer. He was widely known as George Baker.-Club career:Originally a winger, Baker joined Plymouth Argyle as a teenager in the early 1950s...
(born 1934), known as George Baker, Wales international footballer - George Charlie Baker, perpetrator of the murder of Liam AshleyMurder of Liam AshleyOn 24 August 2006, George Charlie Baker, a prisoner from North Shore City, Auckland, fatally injured Liam Ashley, a 17-year old from North Shore in a New Zealand prison van...