John Alfred Baden (May 10, 1913 - April 26, 1983) was an American prelate who served as the Suffragan Bishop of Virginia from 1973 till 1979.
He was educated at the Maryland Park High School and then proceeded to the University of Maryland from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1939 and a Bachelor of Laws from the National University School of Law in 1939.
Later he trained for the priesthood at the Virginia Theological Seminary and graduated with a Master of Divinity in 1948.
He served as rector of Frederick Parish responsible of Christ Church and St Paul's-on-the-Hill in Winchester, Virginia between 1962 and 1973.
He was consecrated on June 30, 1973, in Washington National Cathedral by Bishop Robert F. Gibson Jr. of Virginia.