List of people considered father or mother of a field
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The fathers of...
(alphabetically by surname)
- Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - The father of Danish painting
- Steve Allen - The father of the television talk show
- Eric Allman - The father of modern Internet e-mail
- Peter Artedi - The father of ichthyology
- Philip Astley - The father of the modern circus
- Stephen F. Austin - The father of Texas
- Leo Baekeland - The father of plastic
- George Bancroft - The father of American History (also William Bradford)
- Alexander Graham Bell - The father of the telephone
- Edward Bernays - The father of public relations
- William Bradford - The father of American History (also George Bancroft)
- William Brown - The father of Argentinian Navy
- James Busby - The father of the Australian wine industry
- Nolan Bushnell - The father of the video arcade industry
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal - The father of Neuroscience
- John Calvin - The father of Protestantism
- John Cassavetes - The father of American independent film
- Vinton G. Cerf - The father of the Internet
- Anton Cermak - The father of Chicago's great Democratic machine
- Peter Cook - The father of British satire
- John Nelson Darby - The father of dispensationalism
- Sheikh Sayid Darwish - The father of Arab popular music
- William Morris Davis - The father of American geography
- Diophantus - The father of Algebra
- Lee De Forest - self-claimed "father of radio" (inventor of Audion amplifier tube, a key element).
- Allen B. Dumont - The father of modern TV
- John Boyd Dunlop - The father of the modern tire
- Quintus Ennius - The father of Roman poetry
- Brian Eno - The father of ambient music
- Robert Ettinger - The father of cryonics
- Luis A. Ferré - The father of the movement for Puerto Rican statehood
- Reginald Fessenden - The father of Radio Broadcasting
- Alexander Fleming - The father of penicillin
- Charles Fort - The father of Modern Paranormalism
- Gottlob Frege - The father of modern mamatical logic
- Sigmund Freud - The father of psychoanalysis
- Galileo Galilei - The father of modern astronomy, father of the scientific method
- Gandhi - father of the nation (India)
- Reimar Horten - the father of aircraft stealth technology
- Robert Goddard - The father of rocketry
- Josip Generalić - The fathr of naive art
- Gorgias - The father of systematic study of rhetoric
- James Gosling - The father of Java programming language
- Ben Graham - The father of Modern Security Analysis
- Thomas Graham - The father of colloid chemistry
- David Wark Griffith - The father of film grammar
- WC Handy - The father of the blues
- Ben Harney - The father of ragtime
- Joseph Haydn - The father of the modern orchestra
- Herodotus - The father of history
- Hippocrates - The father of medicine
- James Hutton - The father of modern geology
- Fredrick Jahn - The father of gymnastics
- Bill James - The father of Sabermetrics
- Thomas Jefferson - The father of archaeology
- Theodore Judah - The father of the First Transcontinental Railroad (U.S.)
- Mustafa Kemal - The father of modern Turkey
- Søren Kierkegaard - The father of existentialism
- Abraham Kuyper - The father of Dutch neo-calvinism
- Jack LaLanne - The godfather of fitness
- Sydney M. Lamb - The father of stratificational grammar
- Antoine Lavoisier - The father of modern chemistry
- Ivan Lupis - The father of torpedo
- Jacques-Donatien Le Ray - a French The father of the American Revolution
- John Lennard-Jones - The father of modern computational chemistry
- J.C.R. Licklider - The father of artificial intelligence
- Joseph Lister - The father of modern antisepsis
- Raymond Loewy - The father of industrial design
- Professor Longhair - The father of funk
- James Madison - The father of the United States Constitution
- Herbert Marcuse - The father of the new left
- George Mason - The father of the Bill of Rights
- John McLoughlin - The father of Oregon (by vote of the Oregon legislature)
- Daniel Arap Moi - The father of Kenya's independence
- Claudio Monteverdi - The father of opera
- Gregor Mendel - The father of genetics
- Spike Milligan - The father of modern British comedy
- Billy Mitchell - The father of U.S. Air Force
- Andrija Mohorovičić - The father of seizmology
- Robert Moon - The father of the ZIP code
- Muddy Waters - The father of Chicago blues
- John von Neumann - The father of game theory
- Abu Nidal - literally translates to "The father of struggle"
- Sondre Norheim - The father of skiing
- Henry Parkes - The father of Federation (Australia)
- Fredrik Pacius - The father of Finnish music
- Charles Peirce - The father of modern semiotics
- Eduard Slavoljub Penkala - the father of a ink pen
- Jozef Pilsudski - the grandfather (of Poles)
- Camille Pissarro - The father of Impressionism
- Christopher Polhem - The father of Swedish engineering
- Pythagoras - The father of numbers
- S. R. Ranganathan - The father of library science in India.
- Hyman G. Rickover The father of the Nuclear Navy (U.S.)
- Louis Riel - The father of Manitoba
- Jimmie Rodgers - The father of country music
- Paul Sandby - The father of English watercolor painting
- Ferdinand de Saussure - The father of modern linguistics
- Moritz Schlick - The father of logical positivism
- Claude E. Shannon - The father of information theory
- Ivan Schwartz - The father of the airplane (Croatia)
- Ambrose Sevier - The father of Arkansas Statehood
- Adam Smith - The father of modern economics
- John C. Stennis - The father of America's Modern Navy
- Sun Yat-sen - The father of the nation of the Republic of China
- Edward Teller - The father of the hydrogen bomb
- Tertullian - The father of the Western Church
- Nikola Tesla - The father of radio, X-rays, AC current, remote control, radar, also the grandfather of SDI (space defence initiative)
- LaMarcus Adna Thompson - "Father of Gravity" or "Father of the Gravity Ride" (i.e. the rollercoaster)
- Franjo barun Trenk - The father of military music
- Charles Tupper - The father of Canadian Confederation
- Alan Turing - The father of computer science
- J. R. R. Tolkien - The father of the modern high fantasy genre
- Paolo Uccello - The father of the art of perspective
- Edgar Varèse - The father of electronic music
- Carl Vinson - The father of the two-ocean navy
- Faust Vrančić - The father of the parachute
- John Wanamaker - The father of the U.S. department store
- George Washington - The father of the United States
- Isaac Watts - The father of English Hymnody
- John B. Watson - The father of behaviorism
- Alfred Wegener - The father of plate tectonics
- Santa G. Wilfredo - father of The Protective Unconscious Theory
- Wright brothers - The fathers of aviation
- Eliezer Ben Yehuda - The father of modern Hebrew language
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The mothers of...
- Jane Addams - The mother of Social Work
- Susan B. Anthony - The Mother of Us All (title of Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera)
- Isadora Duncan - The mother of modern dance
- Mary Harris Jones - Better known as Mother Jones. Also called "Grandmother of All Agitators".
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - The mother of the nation (of South Africa)
- The Blessed Virgin Mary - In Christianity, the mother of Jesus
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth - The mother of modern management
- Phoebe Palmer - the mother of the holiness movement
- Alice Waters - The mother of California cuisine
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