Henri Louis Baels (18 January 1878 – 14 June 1951), was a Belgian Catholic Party politician, and ship-owner from Ostend.

He was the son of Julius Ludovicus Baels (1851–1896), a shipowner, and Delphina Alexandrina Mauricx (1848–1931), who married in Ostend in January 1876.

Baels was also a great friend of Dom Marie-Albert van der Cruyssen, the Abbot of the Cistercian Monastery of Orval, Belgium, and took a lead in supporting the restoration of the Monastery, a project the Abbot (who was also a highly decorated Belgian war hero of World War I) had undertaken.

[1] Baels was married to Anne Marie de Visscher (1882–1950), a daughter of Adolphus Gustavus de Visscher and his wife, Alicia Victoria Carolina Opsomer.

She was a descendant of Count Felix de Muelenaere, member of the Belgian National Congress (when founding the Kingdom of Belgium in 1831), who was a three-time Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1831 and 1841.