Richard Baker
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Richard Baker may refer to:
- Richard Baker (chronicler)Richard Baker (chronicler)Sir Richard Baker was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works.-Life:He was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, as a commoner in 1584...
(1568–1645), English chronicler - Richard Baker (broadcaster)Richard Baker (broadcaster)Richard Baker OBE is a British broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first person to read the BBC Television News in 1954. At one time he lived in Barnet, North London...
(born 1925), BBC broadcaster - Richard Baker (composer/conductor)Richard Baker (composer/conductor)Richard Baker is a British composer and conductor, known equally for his own highly charged and distinctive music and for his performances of contemporary music, especially the music of his contemporaries in the UK.-Life:...
(born 1972), British composer and conductor - Richard Baker (U.S. politician) (born 1948), American politician from Louisiana
- Richard Baker (Scottish politician)Richard Baker (Scottish politician)Richard Baker is a Scottish Labour politician, and member of the Scottish Parliament for the North East Scotland region. He was first elected in the 2003 general election, when he was the youngest sitting MSP, and since May 2011 is Labour's Finance spokesperson in the Scottish Parliament...
(born 1974), Scottish politician - Richard Baker (game designer)Richard Baker (game designer)Richard Baker is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.-Early life, education, and military:...
, American author and game designer - Richard Baker (Australian politician)Richard Baker (Australian politician)Sir Richard Chaffey Baker KCMG was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade, he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics, serving as state attorney-general and President of the Legislative Council before switching to federal politics after federation...
(1842–1911), Australian politician, first President of the Senate - Richard Baker (Victorian politician)Richard Baker (Victorian politician)Richard Baker was an Australian politician.Born on the Isle of White to Peter Baker and Ruth Tucker, he attended a grammar school at Shalfleet and arrived in Melbourne in 1854, settling as a miner in Ballarat. He married Caroline Saunders, with whom he had seven children...
(1830–1915), Victorian state politician - Richard Baker (UK businessman)Richard Baker (UK businessman)Richard Baker is the former Chief Operating Officer of Asda Stores Ltd. and CEO of Boots Group. He is currently Chairman of the European Division of Groupe Aeroplan, which owns and runs the Nectar Loyalty Programme in the UK...
(born 1962), British businessman - Richard Baker (US businessman), American businessman and surf apparel executive for Ocean Pacific
- Richard C. BakerRichard C. BakerRichard C. Baker was the British business partner of Francis Marion "Borax" Smith and eventually became president of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad....
, (1858-1937) UK/US businessman, President of Pacific Coast Borax and Tonopah and Tidewater RailroadTonopah and Tidewater RailroadThe Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, the T&T, was a class II railroad extending through remote reaches of the Mojave Desert from the Santa Fe Railway railhead at Ludlow, California, through Death Valley and Amargosa Valley, terminating at the Mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield in the Great Basin... - Richard A. Baker (businessman)Richard A. Baker (businessman)Richard Baker is the Governor and Chairman of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the oldest continuously operating retail company in North America, established in 1670...
, Chairman and CEO of the Hudson's Bay Trading Company in Canada - Richard A. Baker (Senate Historian)Richard A. Baker (Senate Historian)Richard Allan Baker was the first Historian of the United States Senate, serving through August 2009. He directed the United States Senate Historical Office from the time of its creation in 1975....
, historian of the United States Senate - Richard A. BakerRichard A. BakerRichard A. "Rick" Baker is an American special makeup effects artist known for his realistic creature effects.- Personal life :...
("Rick", born 1950), American special makeup effects artist - Zentatsu Richard BakerZentatsu Richard BakerZentatsu Richard Baker , born Richard Dudley Baker, is an American Soto Zen master , the founder and guiding teacher of Dharma Sangha—which consists of Crestone Mountain Zen Center located in Crestone, Colorado and the Buddhistisches Studienzentrum in Germany's Black Forest...
(born 1936), American Zen Buddhist teacher - Richard Thomas BakerRichard Thomas BakerRichard Thomas Baker was an Australian economic botanist, museum curator and educator.-Early life:Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née Colkett...
(1854–1941), Australian economic botanist - Richard Baker Wingfield-BakerRichard Baker Wingfield-BakerRichard Baker Wingfield-Baker MP, DL, was a Liberal Party politician, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant in the English county of Essex...
(1801–1880), British Liberal Party politician, MP for South Essex 1868–1874 - Richard Plunkett Baker, Red Baron's 30th victory
- Richard Baker (theologian)Richard Baker (theologian)-Life:Baker was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1762, M.A. in 1765, and D.D. in 1788. He was elected to a fellowship in his college, and in 1772 was presented to the rectory of Cawston-with-Portland in Norfolk, which he held till his death in 1818.-Works:* How...
See also
- Rick Baker (disambiguation)
- Richie BakerRichie BakerRichie Baker is an Irish footballer currently playing for League of Ireland Premier Division club Bray Wanderers...
, footballer, born 1980