Adelaide Steele Baylor (October 14, 1860 – December 18, 1935) was an American educator and school administrator.

[4][5] In 1913 she addressed the Tenth Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Schools for the Deaf, when they met in Indianapolis.

[8][9] Her work involved extensive travel and public speaking;[10][11] according to one account, "After 1923 she visited every state in the Union three or four times, Hawaii twice, and Puerto Rico once.

"[1] She retired in October 1935, a few weeks before her death,[12] and was succeeded by Florence Fallgatter as chief.

In 2014, she was in the first class of inductees into the Wabash City Schools Hall of Distinction.