The name "Baxter" has several meanings. All originated from the surname Baxter meaning "female baker", originally a Scottish and East Anglian name. The Baxter family is traditionally a sept of Clan MacMillan.

People

Surnames

A

• Al Baxter, Australian rugby union player
• Alain Baxter, Scottish skier
• Andrew Baxter, Scottish philosopher
• Anne Baxter, American actress
• Annie Baxter, American radio reporter
• Archibald Baxter, New Zealand pacifist
• Arlene Baxter, American model

B

• Batsell Baxter, American religious leader and educator
• Biddy Baxter, British TV producer
• Bill Baxter, Australian politician
• Billy Baxter, British soldier
• Billy Baxter (poker player), American poker player
• Billy Baxter (footballer) Scottish footballer
• Blake Baxter, American electronic musician
• Brad Baxter, American football player

C

• Charles Baxter (author), American author
• Charles R. Baxter, American physician
• J. Clifford Baxter, Enron executive

D

• Darren Baxter, English footballer
• Dorian Baxter, Canadian Anglican priest

E

• Edward Felix Baxter, British soldier
• Elisha Baxter, American jurist and politician
• Esther Baxter, American model

F

• Frank C. Baxter, American TV personality
• Frank William Baxter, Rhodesian soldier
• Fred Baxter, American football player

G

• Gary Baxter, football player
• George W. Baxter, a 19th century governor of Wyoming Territory
• Glen Baxter, British cartoonist
• Glen Baxter (journalist), Canadian journalist
• Gordon Baxter, American aviator
• Gregory Baxter, Canadian ski jumper

H

• Henry Baxter, American general

I

• Irvin Baxter Jr., American Christian apologist
• Irving Baxter, American athlete

J

• Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician
• James Keir Baxter, New Zealand poet
• James Baxter, English rugby union internationalist and Olympic silver medalist
• James Baxter (animator), British animator
• James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, Maine, and cofounder of Baxter State Park
• James Phinney Baxter III, American historian
• Jane Baxter, British-born actress
• Jean Rae Baxter, Canadian author
• Jeff Baxter, American guitarist and government consultant
• Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer
• John Baxter (author), Australian-born writer and film-maker
• John Baxter (director), British-born film-maker of the 1930s and 40s
• John Baxter (explorer), Australian explorer who accompanied Edward John Eyre across the Nullarbor Plain
• John Baxter (footballer), Scottish footballer
• John Baxter (musician), lead vocalist and guitarist of 1980s British New Wave band Re-Flex
• John Babington Macaulay Baxter (1868–1946), Canadian politician
• John G. Baxter (1826-1885), nineteenth and twenty-first mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
• J.R. Baxter (1887-1960), American gospel musician

K

• Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder

L

• Laurence Baxter, British statistician
• Les Baxter, American pianist
• Lois Baxter, British actress
• Lonny Baxter, American basketball player
• Lynsey Baxter, British actress

M

• Marvin R. Baxter, American judge
• Meredith Baxter or Meredith Baxter-Birney, American actress

N

• Nathan D. Baxter, American clergyman
• Nick Baxter, English pistol shooter

P

• Paul Baxter, Canadian ice hockey player and assistant coach
• Percival Proctor Baxter, governor of the U.S. state of Maine
• Peter Baxter, cricket commentator

R

• Raymond Baxter, British television personality
• Richard Baxter, English Nonconformist clergyman
• Rick Baxter, American politician
• Robert Dudley Baxter, British economist
• Rodney J. Baxter, Australian physicist
• Ronnie Baxter, English darts player

S

• J. Sidlow Baxter, Australian theologian
• Skippy Baxter, American figure skater
• Stanley Baxter, British comedian
• Stephen Baxter, British science-fiction writer
• Steve Baxter, American songwriter and guitarist
• Stuart Baxter, British football manager

T

• Tom Baxter, British guitarist/solo-artist
• Trevor Baxter, British actor

V

• Virginia Baxter, American figure skater

W

• Warner Baxter, American actor
• William Baxter, American born British cartoonist
• William Baxter (botanist)
• William Baxter (law professor), American jurist
• William Edward Baxter, British politician

Given name

• Baxter Black (born 1945), American cowboy, poet, philosopher, former large-animal veterinarian, and radio commentator
• Baxter Dury, pop singer, son of Ian Dury

Fictional characters

• Baxter Basics, character from British comic Viz
• Baxter (mascot), the mascot for the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team
• Baxter Stockman in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
• Corrine Baxter, in Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
• Cory Baxter, in Cory in the House
• Evan Baxter, played by Steve Carell in Evan Almighty (2007)
• Georgette Franklin Baxter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Raven Baxter, in That's So Raven
• Rupert Baxter, Lord Emsworth's secretary in the stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse
• Tanya Baxter, in That's So Raven
• Ted Baxter, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• Victor Baxter, in Cory in the House

Film

• Baxter (film), a 1989 French black comedy, with a talking dog named "Baxter"
• The Baxter, a 2005 romantic comedy

Place names

In Antarctica:

• Mount Baxter (Antarctica)

In Australia:

• Baxter, Victoria
• Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, an Australian immigration detention facility near Port Augusta, South Australia

In Canada:

• Baxter, Ontario

In the United States:

• Baxter, Arkansas
• Baxter, Iowa
• Baxter, Minnesota
• Baxter, Tennessee
• Baxter, Berkeley County, West Virginia
• Baxter, Marion County, West Virginia
• Baxter County, Arkansas
• Baxter Estates, New York
• Mount Baxter (California)
• Baxter State Park, in Maine

Miscellaneous

• Baxter (band), a Swedish electronica band
• Baxter's Bus Lines, an Australian bus company
• Baxter College, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Baxter International, a United States-based multinational medical instruments & supplies company
• The Baxter meteorite of 1916, which fell in Missouri, United States (see Meteorite falls)
• Baxter (milk), a milk company which sells most of their products in south New-Brunswick