Tjitze Baarda (8 July 1932 – 23 August 2017) was a Dutch professor of theology and Religious Sciences.
He spent his career at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and Utrecht University.
He obtained his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation titled "The gospel quotations of Aphrahat the Persian sage".
Baarda subsequently became a professor of Biblical criticism, exegesis and canon of the New Testament at the same university.
During his time in Utrecht he held the chair of Antique Judaism and explanation of the New Testament.