Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden (1551 – 18 October 1629) was an English cloth merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1628.

Hicks sold "watchet" blue velvet and taffeta for bed hangings to the Earl of Northumberland in 1586, from his shop at the sign of the White Bear.

[10] Hicks supplied textiles to James VI of Scotland, notably for the occasion of the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle in 1594.

[11] Hicks wrote to James VI on 1 March 1600 hoping for repayment of sums due to him by Robert Jousie, a bankrupted textile merchant working on the king's behalf.

[18] He was allocated £2000 from the duty on sea coal to remunerate him for fabric supplied to royal wardrobe ordered by the Earl of Dunbar.

[19] With Thomas Woodward, Hicks provided the fabrics supplied to Princess Elizabeth for her wedding to Frederick V of the Palatinate in February 1613[20] and to the Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon, for the visit of the Archbishop of Spalato in 1618.

In 1627, he built a market hall at the centre of Chipping Campden as a shelter for the vendors; the Grade I listed building is still in use.

His younger daughter Mary married: Hicks died at the age of 78 and is buried under a classical monument in Chipping Campden St James church.

[24][25] His will left £10,000 for charitable purposes;[26] the funds helped to establish Campden Charities, a non-profit organization to alleviate poverty in Kensington.

[27] All that now remains of Sir Baptist Hicks' once imposing estate are a gatehouse and two Jacobean banqueting houses;[28] the latter of which were restored by the Landmark Trust.