List of people known as the father or mother of something
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The following alphabetical lists includes men and women commonly known as the father or mother of something. Whether each of these persons is genuinely the father or mother of this thing is a matter of opinion.
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A
- Philip Abelson - The father of the nuclear submarine
- Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - The father of Danish painting
- Jane Addams - The mother of Social Work (called "The mother of the world")
- George Agricola - The father of Mineralogy
- Mikael Agricola - The father of Finnish written language
- Dr. Ricardo Alegría - The father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology
- Eloy Alfaro - The father of Ecuadorian liberalism
- Steve Allen - The father of the television talk show
- Eric Allman - The father of modern Internet e-mail
- Susan B. Anthony - "The Mother of Us All" (title of Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera)
- Sabino Arana - The father of modern Basque nationalism
- Peter Artedi - The father of ichthyology
- Philip Astley - The father of the modern circus
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The father of modern Turkey
- Stephen F. Austin - The father of Texas
- Cyrus Avery - The father of Route 66
- Ismail Al Azhary - The father of Modern Sudan
B
- Charles Babbage - The father of the computer / computing
- Stephen Moulton Babcock - The father of scientific dairying
- Johann Sebastian Bach - The father of music
- Leo Baekeland - The father of plastic
- Mikhail Bakunin - The father of anarchism
- George Bancroft - The father of American History
- José Celso Barbosa - The father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement
- Aaron T. Beck - The father of Cognitive therapy
- Alexander Graham Bell - The father of the telephone (Antonio Meucci was eventually recognised as the original inventor of the telephone by the Congress of the United States in Resolution 269, dated June 11, 2002.)
- Edward Bernays - The father of public relations - aka the father of spin
- Tim Berners-Lee - The father of the world wide web
- Rómulo Betancourt - The father of Venezuelan democracy
- Lorenz Böehler - The father of bone surgery.
- Ben Botkin - The father of public folklore
- William Bradford - The father of American History
- Tycho Brahe - The father of modern astronomy
- Richard Bright - The father of nephrology
- Milton Brown - The father of Western swing
- James Busby - The father of the Australian wine industry
- Nolan Bushnell - The father of computer entertainment / electronic gaming
C
- John Calvin - The father of Protestantism
- Raymond Carhart - The father of audiology
- John Cassavetes - The father of American independent film-making
- Román Baldorioty de Castro - The father of Puerto Rico's Autonomy movement
- Vinton G. Cerf - The father of the Internet
- Boris Chicherin - The father of Russian liberalism
- Rebekah Colberg - The mother of Womens Sports in Puerto Rico
- Jesus Colon - The father of the Nuyorican Movement
- Alan Cooper - The father of Visual Basic
- Nicolaus Copernicus - The father of modern astronomy
- W. L. Creech - The father of the Thunderbirds
- Hubert Critchlow - The father of the Guyanese labor movement
- Joe Cuba - The father of the Boogaloo craze
- Frank W. Cyr - father of the yellow school bus
D
- J.B. Danquah - The father of the political opposition of Ghana
- John Nelson Darby - The father of dispensationalism
- Nicéphore Niépce & Louis Daguerre - The fathers of the photograph
- John Dalton - The father of chemistry
- Charles Darwin - The father of evolutionary biology
- William Morris Davis - The father of American geography
- Guy de Chauliac - The father of modern surgery and hospitals
- Jose de Diego - The father of the Puerto Rican independence movement
- Lee De Forest - The father of radio
- Democritus - The father of atomic theory
- René Descartes - The father of modern philosophy
- Friedrich Diercks - The father of immigrants
- Diophantus - The father of Algebra
- Walt Disney - The father of the animation industry
- Vasily Dokuchaev - The father of soil science
- Tommy Douglas - A, or the, father of medicare in Canada
- Peter Drucker - The father of management
- Alberto Santos-Dumont - The father of aviation
- Allen B. Dumont - The father of modern TV
- Isadora Duncan - The mother of modern dance
- John Boyd Dunlop - The father of the modern tire
E
- Albert Einstein - The father of Relativity, the godfather of Quantum Mechanics, the father of modern physics
- Ralph Waldo Emerson - The father of Transcendentalism
- Alan Emtage - The father of the Internet search engine
- Quintus Ennius - The father of Latin poetry
- Brian Eno - The father of ambient music
- William Phelps Eno - The father of traffic safety
- Robert Ettinger - The father of cryonics
- Leonhard Euler - The father of fluid mechanics
F
- Luis A. Ferré - The father of the Puerto Rican autonomy movement
- Reginald Fessenden - The father of radio broadcasting
- Narciso Figueroa - The father of the Modern Danza
- Henry Morrison Flagler - The father of Miami, Florida.
- Alexander Fleming - The father of modern antibiotics
- Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens - The father of brain physiology
- Gottlob Frege - The father of modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy
- Sigmund Freud - The father of psychoanalysis
- Henry M. Morris - The father of the "creation science" movement
G
- Galileo Galilei - The father of modern astronomy and of the scientific method of modern science
- Gandhi - The father of the nation of India and of non-violence
- Genghis Khan - the father of the nation of Mongolia
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth - The mother of modern management
- Henry Gilman - The father of organometallic chemistry
- Giotto - The father of Renaissance art
- Robert Goddard - The father of modern rocketry
- Maxim Gorky - The father of Soviet literature
- James Gosling - The father of the Java programming language
- Ben Graham - The father of modern financial analysis
- Thomas Graham - The father of colloid chemistry
- David Wark Griffith - The father of modern film and film grammar
H
- Fritz Haber - The father of chemical warfare
- Emmett Matthew Hall - A father of medicare in Canada
- WC Handy - The father of the blues
- Ben Harney - The father of ragtime
- Hubert Harrison - The father of Harlem radicalism
- Joseph Haydn - The father of the symphony
- Abram Stevens Hewitt - the father of the New York City Subway
- Jim Henson - The father of the Muppets
- Herodotus - The father of history
- Herophilus - The father of anatomy
- William Herschel - The father of modern astronomy
- Theodor Herzl - The father of modern secular Zionism
- Hippocrates - The father of medicine
- Reimar Horten - The father of aircraft stealth technology, aka the father of the flying wing
- Robert E. Horton - The father of modern hydrology
- James Hutton - The father of modern geology
I
- Art Ingels - The father of karting
J
- Abraham Jacobi - The father of U.S. pediatrics
- Fredrick Jahn - The father of gymnastics
- Bill James - The father of modern baseball statistical study and sabermetrics
- Thomas Jefferson - The father of archaeology, the father of the University of Virginia
- Edward H. Johnson - The father of Electric Christmas tree lights
- Phillip E. Johnson - The father of intelligent design creationism
- Mary Harris Jones or Mother Jones - The "Grandmother of All Agitators".
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Father of the Nation of Pakistan
- Fatima Jinnah - Mother of the Nation of Pakistan
- Theodore Judah - The father of the U.S. first Transcontinental Railroad
K
- Karađorđe - The father of modern Serbia
- Wassily Kandinsky - The father of abstract art
- Nikolai Karamzin - The father of Russian conservatism
- Johannes Kepler - The father of modern astronomy
- Søren Kierkegaard - The father of existentialism
- William Kirby - The father of entomology
- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook - The father of religious Zionism
- Lajos Kossuth - The father of Hungarian democracy
- Boris Kurakin - The father of Russian diplomacy
L
- Jack LaLanne - The father of fitness
- Antoine Lavoisier - The father of modern chemistry
- John Lennard-Jones - The father of modern computational chemistry
- Carolus Linnaeus - The father of taxonomy
- Lucien Lison - The father of histochemistry
- Joseph Lister - The father of modern antisepsis
- Raymond Loewy - The father of industrial design
- Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long - The mother of Texas
- Professor Longhair - The father of New Orleans rhythm and blues and funk
- Martin Luther - The father of Protestantism and of Lutheranism
M
- Bernarr Macfadden - The father of physical culture
- Niccolò Machiavelli - The father of modern political theory and of pragmatism
- James Madison - The father of the United States Constitution
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - The mother of South Africa
- Marcello Malpighi - The father of microscopic anatomy
- Thomas Malthus - The father of social science
- Herbert Marcuse - The father of the New Left
- Paul Martin Sr. - A father of medicare in Canada
- Hideto Matsumoto - The father of J-Rock
- Karl Marx - The father of modern Communism
- George Mason - The father of the United States Bill of Rights
- John McLoughlin - The father of Oregon
- George E. McNeill - The father of the eight-hour work day (in the U.S.)
- Gregor Mendel - The father of genetics
- Antonio Meucci - The official father of the telephone
- Spike Milligan - The father of modern British comedy and of Monty Python
- Billy Mitchell - The father of United States Air Force
- Bill Monroe - The father of bluegrass music
- Claudio Monteverdi - The father of opera
- Robert Moon - The father of the ZIP code
- E. C. Morley - The father of The Football Association
- Muddy Waters - The father of Chicago blues
- Johannes Peter Muller - The father of modern physiology
N
- Antonin Nechodoma - the father of Puerto Rican architecture
- Gaylord Nelson - the father of Earth Day [1]
- John von Neumann - The father of game theory
- Isaac Newton - The father of modern astronomy, of modern science and of modern mathematics
- Abu Nidal - The father of modern terrorism
- Florence Nightingale - The mother of modern nursing
- Saparmurat Niyazov, a.k.a. Turkmenbashi - The father of the Turkmen people
- Sondre Norheim - The father of skiing
- Nikolai Novikov - The father of Russian journalism
O
- Alejandro O'Reilly - The father of the Puerto Rican militia
- Hermann Oberth - The father of space flight and of modern rocketry
- J. Robert Oppenheimer - The father of the atomic bomb
P
- Fredrik Pacius - The father of Finnish music
- Dorothy G. Page - The mother of the Iditarod
- Phoebe Palmer - The mother of the holiness movement
- Henry Parkes - The father of Australian Federation
- Louis Pasteur - The father of bacteriology, of stereochemistry and of microbiology
- Charles Peirce - The father of pragmatism
- Don Pendleton - The father of the action adventure novel
- Eduard Slavoljub Penkala - The father of the solid-ink fountain pen
- Phan Boi Chau - The father of modern Vietnamese revolutionary philosophy
- Phan Chu Trinh - The father of modern Vietnamese nationalism
- Camille Pissarro - The father of Impressionism
- Henri Poincaré - The father of algebraic topology
- Christopher Polhem - The father of Swedish engineering
- Casimir Pulaski - The father of the United States Army Cavalry
- Pythagoras - The father of numbers
Q
- Manuel L. Quezon - The father of the Filipino language
R
- Alexander Radishchev - The father of Russian radicalism
- Vasily Radlov - The father of Turcology
- Ma Rainey - The mother of the blues
- Damrong Rajanubhab - The father of the history of Thailand
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal - The father of modern Neuroscience
- S. R. Ranganathan - The father of library science in India
- Jef Raskin - The father of the Apple Macintosh
- Joe Redington, Sr. - the father of the Iditarod
- Regiomontanus - The father of modern astronomy
- Mikołaj Rej - The father of Polish literature
- Hyman G. Rickover The father of the United States Nuclear Navy
- Louis Riel - The father of Manitoba
- Jimmie Rodgers - The father of country music
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The father of Romantic sensibility, of the French Revolution
S
- Peter Safar - The father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Paul Sandby - The father of English watercolor painting
- Ferdinand de Saussure - The father of modern linguistics
- Junípero Serra - The father of California
- Ambrose Sevier - The father of Arkansas Statehood
- King Mohammed Zahir Shah - The father of the nation of Afghanistan
- Claude E. Shannon - The father of information theory
- Mary Shelley - The mother of science fiction
- Ras Shorty I - The father of soca music
- Igor Sikorsky - The father of the helicopter
- John Smeaton - The father of Civil Engeneering
- Adam Smith - The father of modern economics
- Shinji Sogo - The father of the Japanese Bullet Train (the Shinkansen)
- Samuel Spencer - The father of the Southern Railway System
- Frank J. Sprague - The father of electric traction
- Nicholas J. Spykman - The godfather of containment
- Niels Steensen - The father of modern paleontology
- John C. Stennis - The father of the modern United States Navy
- Georg Stiernhielm - The father of Swedish poetry
- Sun Yat-sen - The father of the Revolution and the nation of the Republic of China
- Alejandro Tapia y Rivera - The father of Puerto Rican literature
T
- Alejandro Tapia y Rivera - The father of Puerto Rican literature
- Manuel Gregorio Tavarez - The father of the Puerto Rican Danzas
- Edward Teller - The father of the hydrogen bomb
- Tertullian - The father of Latin Theology
- Karl von Terzaghi - The father of soil mechanics
- Nikola Tesla - The father of modern electronics and of the radio
- Osamu Tezuka - The father of manga and anime
- LaMarcus Adna Thompson - The father of the rollercoaster
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The father of the modern high fantasy genre
- Leon Trotsky - The father of the Red Army (army of the USSR)
- Andre Thi Truong - The father of the personal computer
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - The father of human spaceflight and of astronautics
- Charles Tupper - The father of Canadian Confederation
- Alan Turing - The father of computer science
- Julia Tuttle - the mother of Miami, Florida.
- Rustom Jal Vakil - The father of Indian cardiology
V
- Edgard Varèse - The father of electronic music
- Vladimir Vernadsky - The father of geochemistry
- Andreas Vesalius - The father of anatomy
- Carl Vinson - The father of the two-ocean navy of the United States Navy
- Fyodor Volkov - The father of Russian theatre
- Faust Vrančić - The father of the parachute
W
- John Wanamaker - The father of the U.S. department store
- George Washington - The father of the United States of America
- Alice Waters - The mother of California cuisine and of American cooking
- John B. Watson - The father of behaviorism
- Isaac Watts - The father of English Hymnody
- Arthur Gordon Webster - The father of the American Physical Society
- Alfred Wegener - The father of plate tectonics / continental drift
- Norbert Wiener - The father of cybernetics
- Woodrow Wilson - The father of the League of Nations and of Internationalism
- Johann Winckelmann - The father of modern archaeology
- Sergius Witte - The grandfather of Russian industry
- Wright brothers - The fathers of aviation
- Wilhelm Wundt - The father of modern psychology
X
Y
- Gazi Yaşargil - The father of micro-neurosurgery
- Rouzbeh Yassini - The father of the cable modem
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - The father of the modern Hebrew
Z
- Yevgeny Zamyatin - The father of dystopian literature
- Zeno of Citium - The Father of Stoicism
See also
- Fathers of Confederation (Canada)
