Alan Baker (geographer)

Alan Reginald Harold Baker, FBA (born 1938) is a British geographer. He has been a life fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1970. Having graduated from the University of London with a BA in 1966 and a PhD in 1963, he was a lecturer at the University of London (1963–66) and then the University of Cambridge (1966–2001). He was head of the Department of Geography at Cambridge from 1989 to 1994.

Baker was appointed a chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms in 1997, was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award in 1974 and its Founders Medal in 2009, and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He was the subject of a festschrift: Iain S. Black and R. A. Butlin (eds), Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R. H. Baker (Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001).