Hans T. Bakker (born 1948) is a cultural historian and Indologist, who has served as the Professor of the History of Hinduism and Jan Gonda Chair at the University of Groningen.

He worked in the British Museum as a researcher in the project "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State".

Bakker's main research interest has been the political and religious culture of India in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries.

As part of this work he led the study of the earliest known version of the Skanda Purāṇa preserved in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bakker has been working as researcher in "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State", a project based in the British Museum that is funded by the European Research Council (2013–2019).