Philip Baker (1880 – c. May 1932) was an Irish chess player.
[1][2] Baker was born in Riga, Latvia then part of Imperial Russia in 1880, he was a Jew.
A draper and cap maker by profession, he lived in Tralee, County Kerry before moving to Dublin.
With the Sackville Chess Club Baker won the Armstrong Cup in 1926 and 1929.
His granddaughter Rosalind married Henry Barron (judge)