Benjamin Bailey (November 1791 in Dewsbury – 3 April 1871 in Sheinton, Shropshire, England) was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala, India for 34 years.

He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he found a mission station in Kottayam,[2] and in 1821 he established a Malayalam printing press.

He was ordained as Deacon on 6 August and as Priest on 17 December 1815, by the Archbishop of York (to the Curacy of Harewood, Yorkshire).

Benjamin Bailey was the progenitor of printing and book publishing in Malayalam, the native language of Kerala.

In 1839–42, he built the Anglican church in Kottayam-the Christ Church- which Bishop Wilson called "the glory of Travancore".