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 | + | |
| - | *[[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Gandhi]] - father of the nation (India) | + | |
| - | *[[Reimar Horten]] - the father of aircraft stealth technology | + | |
| - | *[[Robert Hutchins Goddard|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 [[Hymn]]ody | + | |
| - | *[[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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