Sundararaj Theodore Baskaran (born 1940) is a film historian and wildlife conservationist from Tamil Nadu, India.
Theodore Baskaran was born in Dharapuram, (in present-day Tiruppur district, Tamil Nadu) in 1940.
The same year, he presented his first research article titled Film Censorship as an Instrument of Political Control in British India in the Indian History Congress at Aligarh.
He is a former honorary wild life warden and the South India Representative of the International Primate Protection League.
His collection of essays on nature and wild life conservation has been published as The Dance of the Sarus (Oxford University Press) in 1999.
He edited a book of articles on nature titled "The Sprint of The Black Buck"; Penguin (2009) He is married to Thilaka Baskaran and lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.