Thomas Baker
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Australian people
- Thomas Baker (aviator)Thomas Baker (aviator)Thomas Charles Richmond Baker DFC, MM & Bar was an Australian soldier, aviator and flying ace of the First World War. Born in Smithfield, South Australia, he was an active sportsman in his youth and developed a keen interest in aviation...
(1897–1918), Australian soldier and aviator of the First World War
British people
- Tom BakerTom BakerThomas Stewart "Tom" Baker is a British actor. He is best known for playing the fourth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, a role he played from 1974 to 1981.-Early life:...
(born 1934), actor who played Doctor Who from 1974 to 1981 - Thomas Baker (antiquarian)Thomas Baker (antiquarian)Thomas Baker , English antiquarian, was the grandson of Colonel Baker of Crook, Durham, who won fame in the English Civil War by his defence of Newcastle upon Tyne against the Scots. Thomas was educated at the free school at Durham, and went on to St John's College, Cambridge, where he later...
(1656–1740), English antiquarian - Thomas Baker (artist)Thomas Baker (artist)Thomas Baker was a Midlands landscape painter and watercolourist often known as "Baker of Leamington" or "Landscape Baker"....
(1809–1864), English landscape painter and watercolourist - Thomas Baker (attorney)Thomas Baker (attorney)Thomas Baker was a British attorney writer. He was active as a playwright in London in the first decade of the eighteenth century, penning The Fine Lady's Airs and other plays, then moved to Bedfordshire and lived there as a schoolmaster and vicar until his death in 1749...
(c. 1680–1749), English attorney and author of Fine Lady's Airs - Thomas Baker (cricketer)Thomas Baker (cricketer)Thomas Michael Baker is an English cricketer, who played for Yorkshire and Northamptonshire between 2001 and 2005...
, cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club - 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...
, Wales international football player - Thomas Baker (musician)Thomas Baker (musician)Thomas Baker was a nineteenth century composer and musical producer.A violinist, Baker came to the United States from England with the orchestra of Louis Antoine Jullien in 1853...
, composer and producer of musical stage productions - Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader)Thomas Baker (Peasants' Revolt leader)Thomas Baker, an English landowner, was one of the leaders who initiated the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.Thomas Baker's holding was "Pokattescroft alias Bakerescroft" in Fobbing...
- Thomas Baker (Royal Navy officer)Thomas Baker (Royal Navy officer)Sir Thomas Baker KCB, KWN was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...
(1771-1845), Royal Navy admiral - Thomas Durand BakerThomas Durand BakerLieutenant General Sir Thomas Durand Baker KCB was a British army officer, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
(1837-1893), Quartermaster-General to the Forces - Thomas Baker (missionary)Thomas Baker (missionary)The Reverend Thomas Baker was a Methodist missionary in Fiji, known as being the last missionary in that country to be killed and eaten, along with seven of his Fijian followers. The incident occurred in the Navosa Highlands of western Viti Levu in July 1867, and the axe used to kill Baker is...
, Christian missionary cannibalised in Fiji in 1876 - Tom Baker (priest) (1920–2000), Anglican clergyman
- Thomas Baker (mathematician)Thomas Baker (mathematician)'Thomas Baker , was an English mathematician notable for producing a solution of biquadratic equations.-Biography: Baker is said to have been fifteen years old when he became a battler at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1640...
- Thomas Baker (dramatist)Thomas Baker (dramatist)-Life:Baker is said to have been the son of an eminent attorney of London, and is credited, probably with just cause, with having been educated in Oxford...
American people
- Tom Baker (American actor)Tom Baker (American actor)Tom Baker was an American actor who starred in the Andy Warhol movie I, A Man . He was a known drug addict and alcoholic, and a close friend of Jim Morrison of The Doors....
(1940–1982) - Tom Baker (bowler)Tom Baker (bowler)Tom Baker is a professional bowler on the PBA Tour. He has won 10 titles on the regular PBA Tour, and 9 more on the PBA Senior Tour. He currently resides in King, North Carolina....
(born 1954), professional bowler - Thomas Baker (college president)Thomas Baker (college president)Thomas Stockham Baker was an American scholar and educator who served as the second President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:...
(1871–1939), president of Carnegie Mellon University - Tom Baker (1930s pitcher) (1913–1991), Major League Baseball player, pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants
- Tom Baker (1960s pitcher) (1934–1980), Major League Baseball player, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs
- Tom Baker (politician), (born 1948), state senator in the Nebraska Legislature
- Tom Baker (professor)Tom Baker (professor)Tom Baker is professor of law and a scholar of insurance law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.-Professional career:Baker clerked for Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then practiced with the firm of Covington and Burling in...
, law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School - Thomas Baker (soldier)Thomas Baker (soldier)Thomas Alexander Baker was a United States Army soldier who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II during the Battle of Saipan....
(1916–1944), World War II Medal of Honor recipient - Thomas E. BakerThomas E. BakerThomas Eugene Baker is a constitutional law scholar and a current professor at the Florida International University College of Law.Baker received his J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law and served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...
, professor of Constitutional law and former administrative assistant to William Rehnquist - Tom Baker, Lutheran pastor and radio host on KFUO-AM
Fictional characters
- Tom Baker (24 character)
- DC Tom Baker, a character on The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
- Tom Baker, a character in the 2003 film of Cheaper by the DozenCheaper by the Dozen (2003 film)Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with 12 children . The film takes its title from the 1948 biography of the same name of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth and their 12 children, but other than the title and the concept of a family with 12 children,...
Songs
- "Tom Baker", a song by Human League on some versions of Travelogue