Ernest Baird (1930 – September 2003) was a Northern Irish pharmacist and unionist politician.
Baird was born in County Donegal in the Irish Free State but moved with his family to Belfast at an early age.
When William Craig, the leader of Vanguard, proposed forming a coalition government with the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party, Baird led the majority of Vanguard in leaving to form the United Ulster Unionist Movement.
When this proved impossible, it instead constituted itself as the United Ulster Unionist Party (UUUP), again with Baird as the leader.
He then became a key member of the United Unionist Action Council Baird stood for the UUUP in Fermanagh and South Tyrone at the 1979 general election, but won only 17% of the vote, taking fourth position in the poll.