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Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker was an American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France. She was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
Dusty Baker
Johnnie B. "Dusty" Baker Jr. is an American Major League Baseball manager who currently manages the Houston Astros. A former major league player, he had a 19-year career as a hard-hitting outfielder, primarily with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. He helped the Dodgers to pennants in 1977 and 1978 and to the World Series championship in 1981. He previously managed the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and Washington Nationals. He led the Giants to the 2002 National League pennant and also reached the playoffs with the latter three teams. In 2020, he was hired to manage the Houston Astros on a one-year contract. In his first year with the Astros, Baker became the first MLB manager to lead five different teams to the playoffs.
Jean-Claude Baker
Jean-Claude Baker was a French-American restaurateur.
C. David Baker
Carl David Baker is the President and CEO of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Gilbert Baker
Gilbert Baker was an American artist, gay rights activist, and designer of the rainbow flag (1978), a worldwide symbol of LGBTQ pride. His flag became widely associated with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of gay pride that has become ubiquitous in the decades since its debut. California state senator Scott Wiener said Baker "helped define the modern LGBT movement".
Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker was an English drummer and a co-founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer", for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.
Kenny Baker
Kenneth George Baker was an English actor and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars franchise and also appeared in The Elephant Man, Time Bandits, Willow, Flash Gordon, Amadeus and Labyrinth.
Britt Baker
Brittany Baker is an American professional wrestler and dentist signed to All Elite Wrestling.
Danny Baker
Danny Baker is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Throughout his career he has largely presented for London's regional radio and television.
James Baker
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney, statesman, and political figure. He served as White House Chief of Staff and United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and as U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
Matt Baker
Matthew James Baker is a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 2020, with Alex Jones.
Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker is a retired American actress of film, stage, and television. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from young ingénues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a pin-up and serious dramatic actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there, she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.
Thomas Baker
Thomas Alexander Baker was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II during the Battle of Saipan.
Deandre Baker
Deandre Lamar Baker is an American football cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs and was drafted by the New York Giants with the 30th pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
Troy Baker
Troy Edward Baker is an American voice actor and musician. He is best known for his video game roles as Kanji Tatsumi in Persona 4, Vincent Brooks in Catherine, the Boss in the Saints Row series, Booker DeWitt in BioShock Infinite, Joel in The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II, the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins, Delsin Rowe in Infamous Second Son, James Sunderland in Silent Hill 2 HD, Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, Rhys in Tales from the Borderlands, Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Samuel "Sam" Drake in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Lost Legacy and Higgs Monaghan in Death Stranding. He voices Batman, Hawkeye and Loki in various media. He has also voiced in a number of English versions of anime, including Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Naruto: Shippuden, One Piece and Soul Eater.
Anita Baker
Anita Denise Baker is an American singer-songwriter. She is regarded as one of the most popular singers of soulful romantic ballads during the height of the quiet storm period of contemporary R&B in the 1980s. Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. In 1986, she rose to stardom following the release of her Platinum-selling second album, Rapture, which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". As of 2017, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards and has five Platinum albums and one Gold album.
Simon Baker
Simon Lucas Baker is an Australian actor in television and film, and director. He is known for his lead roles in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and The Guardian as Nicholas Fallin, and has starred in several Hollywood films.
Cheryl Baker
Cheryl Baker is a British television presenter and singer. She was a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. The group had 20 singles reach the UK top 60 between 1981 and 1988, including three number one hits with "Making Your Mind Up" (1981), "The Land of Make Believe" (1981) and "My Camera Never Lies" (1982). Baker left the group in 1993. She had previously represented the UK at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the band Co-Co.
Budda Baker
Bishard "Budda" Baker is an American football safety for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies, and was selected by the Cardinals in the second round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
Danielle Panabaker
Danielle Nicole Panabaker is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), Sky High (2005) and Read It and Weep (2006), and in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005). She won three Young Artist Awards: for guest-starring in an episode of the legal drama television series The Guardian (2004), for her lead role in the TV film Searching for David's Heart (2005) and for her ensemble performance in the family comedy film Yours, Mine & Ours (2005).
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations within the cool jazz subgenre leading him to be nicknamed the "prince of cool".
Richard Baker
Richard Douglas James Baker OBE RD was an English broadcaster, best known as a newsreader for BBC News from 1954 to 1982, and as a radio presenter of classical music. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first reader of the BBC Television News in 1954.
Charles Baker
Charles Edward Baker is an American actor, writer, and director. He played Skinny Pete on the AMC series Breaking Bad, and had a recurring role on the NBC series The Blacklist.
Mary Baker
Mary Baker was a noted impostor. Posing as the fictional Princess Caraboo, Baker pretended to come from a far off island kingdom. Baker fooled a British town for some months.
Mashu Baker
Mashu Baker or Matthew Baker , is a male Japanese judoka.
Leigh-Allyn Baker
Leigh-Allyn Baker is an American actress and voice artist. She had recurring roles on Charmed and as Ellen on Will & Grace, and a starring role as the matriarch Amy Duncan on the Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie. She also provided the voice of Abby on the computer-animated Nickelodeon series Back at the Barnyard.
Sean Baker
Sean Baker is a United States Air Force veteran who was injured in a training drill at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 2003, and subsequently discharged.
Ron Baker
Ronald Delaine Baker is an American professional basketball player who last played for CSKA Moscow of the VTB United League and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers.
Bob Baker
Robert John Baker was a British television and film writer. He was best known for working on the original run of Doctor Who, and for being a co-writer of the Wallace and Gromit films The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Vin Baker
Vincent Lamont Baker is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He appeared in four consecutive All-Star Games. As of 2019, Baker serves as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks.