Henry Baker
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Henry Baker may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Henry Baker (author) (1734–1766), English poet and essayist
Henry A. Baker (1753–1836), Irish architect
Henry Judd Baker (died 2016), American actor
Henry Baker, fictional character in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
Military
Henry Baker (soldier) (died 1689), Anglo-Irish soldier
Sir Henry Baker, 2nd Baronet (1787–1859), British naval officer
Charles Baker (Medal of Honor) (a.k.a. Henry Baker, 1809–1891), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
Henry E. Baker (1857–1928), third African American to enter the United States Naval Academy
Politics and law
Henry Baker (Maryland politician) (died 1896), American politician from Maryland
Henry M. Baker (1841–1912), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
Henry Baker (Australian politician) (1890–1968), Australian politician, Tasmanian Leader of the Opposition and President of the Legislative Council
Henry Harold Peter Baker (1915–2004), Canadian politician in Saskatchewan
Science and medicine
Henry Baker (naturalist) (1698–1774), English naturalist
Henry Albert Baker (1848–1934), American orthodontist
Henry Brooks Baker (1837–1920), American public health pioneer
H. F. Baker (Henry Frederick Baker, 1866–1956), English mathematician
Henry Baker (computer scientist) (fl.
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