J Arthur Baird

James Arthur Baird (November 2, 1877 – July 26, 1964) was an American football and baseball player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and judge. He served as the head football coach at Carleton College from 1903 to 1905, at Whitman College from 1906 to 1907, and at Carthage College from 1908 to 1915. Baird was also the head basketball coach at Carthage from 1906 to 1914 and the head baseball coach there from 1910 to 1915.

In 1913, Baird married Georgia Hubbs of New York. She died in 1917. Baird later served as a county judge. He died in 1964 and was buried next to his wife.