Henry Martyn Baird (January 17, 1832 – November 1906) was an American historian and educator.

[1] A son of Robert Baird (1798–1863), the Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, Henry Martyn Baird was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1832.

The younger Baird spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 graduated from New York University.

Employed for four years as a tutor at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Henry Martyn Baird was then employed as a professor of Greek language and literature at New York University from 1859 until his death.

[2] He also published Modern Greece, A Narrative of a Residence and Travels in that Country (1856); a biography of his father, The Life of the Rev.