James Baker (disambiguation)

James Baker, Jim Baker, or Jamie Baker is a name shared by the following persons:

Public officials

*James Baker (born 1930), was a White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
*James McNair Baker (1821–1892), American jurist and politician; Whig from Florida; served in Confederate Senate during the Civil War
*James A. Baker (judge) (1931–2008), American jurist who served on the Texas Supreme Court from 1995 to 2003
*James M. Baker (born 1942), American political figure; Democratic mayor of Wilmington, Delaware since 2001
*James A. Baker (government attorney), American government official at Department of Justice; Counsel for Intelligence Policy since 2001
*Jim Baker (politician), Canadian legislator; Progressive Conservative from Labrador West; in Newfoundland/Labrador House of Assembly

ports personalities

*Jim Baker (footballer) (1891–1966), English professional centre back during the 1910s and 1920s; first captain of Leeds United A.F.C.
*Jim Baker (sportswriter), American journalist who has worked for decades at the "Boston Herald" and the "Buffalo Courier-Express"
*Jamie Baker (born 1966), Canadian professional hockey centre whose career lasted from 1989 to 1999; sports broadcaster since 2005
*Jamie Baker (tennis) (born 1986), Scottish professional player; in 2008, the second-top-ranked British singles competitor

Others

*Jim Baker (frontiersman) (1818–1898), American trapper, scout and guide; considered one of the most colorful figures of the Old West
*James A. Baker (trade unionist) (before 1875–after 1903), Canadian miner in British Columbia; official of Western Federation of Miners
*James Chamberlain Baker (1879–1969), American religious leader; Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church
*James Baker, American convict, known as "Iron Head"; was recorded in 1933 performing African-American work song "Black Betty"
*James Gilbert Baker (1914–2005), American astronomer and optics expert; designed U-2 spy plane lenses; over 50 patents
*Jim Baker, Australian libertarian post-World War II philosopher who wrote under the name A. J. Baker; leading member of Sydney Push
*James Edward Baker (before 1920–1975), American alternative/counterculture spiritual leader; known as YaHoWha and Father Yod
*James Robert Baker (1946–1997), American author of satirical, gay-themed transgressional fiction set in Southern California

=See also=
*Jim Bakker (born 1940), American televangelist at the center of a sex scandal and accounting fraud which resulted in a 1988 indictment
*Baker (surname)
*Bakker