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- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - The "Three Fathers" (Patriarchs) of the Jewish People
- Philip Abelson - The father of the nuclear submarine
- Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - The father of Danish painting
- Samuel Adams - The cofather of the American Revolution
- George Agricola - The father of Mineralogy
- Steve Allen - The father of the television talk showA talk show ( U. or chat show ( Brit. is a television or radio program where an audience comes together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host. Often, talk shows feature a panel of guests, usually consisting of a group of people who are l
- Eric AllmanEric Allman (born 1959) is a computer programmer. The openly gay programmer developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. If anyone can be called the father of modern Internet e-mail, it has to be Allma - The father of modern InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu e-mail
- Peter ArtediPeter Artedi ( February 22, 1705 September 27, 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology". Artedi was born in the province of Angermannia. Intending to become a clergyman, he went, in 1724, to study theology at Uppsala Univ - The father of ichthyologyIchthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fishes. This includes the bony fishes ( Osteichthyes), the cartilaginous fishes ( Chondrichthyes) such as sharks and rays, and the jawless fishes ( Agnatha). Since there are as many species of f
- Philip AstleyPhilip Astley ( January 8, 1742 January 27, 1814) is regarded as the father of modern circus. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme and his father was a cabinetmaker. At the age of 9, he apprenticed to work with his father, but Astley's dream was to work wi - The father of the modern circusA circus is usually a travelling show that includes acrobats, animal trainers, clowns and other novelty acts. However, there are circuses today with a permanent venue that do not travel, and some circuses do not have animal acts. Big Top of Billy Smart's
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The father of modern Turkey
- Stephen F. Austin - The father of Texas
- Stephen Moulton Babcock - The father of scientific dairying
- Johann Sebastian Bach - The father of music
- Leo Baekeland - The father of plastic
- George Bancroft - The cofather of American History
- Jose Celso Barbosa - The father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement
- Alexander Graham Bell - The father of the telephone
- Edward Bernays - The father of public relations
- William Bradford - The cofather of American History
- Tycho Brahe - The cofather of modern astronomy
- 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 Ramon y Cajal - The father of Neuroscience
- John Calvin - The father of Protestantism
- Georg Cantor - The father of Set theory
- John Cassavetes - The father of American independent film
- Roman Baldorioty de Castro - The father of Puerto Rico's Autonomy movement
- Vinton G. Cerf - The father of the Internet
- Anton Cermak - The father of Chicago's great Democratic machine
- Jesus Colon - The father of the Nuyorican movement
- Peter Cook - The father of British satire
- Nicolaus Copernicus - The cofather of modern astronomy
- W. L. "Bill" Creech - The father of the Thunderbirds
- John Nelson Darby - The father of dispensationalism
- Sheikh Sayid Darwish - The father of Arab popular music
- William Morris Davis - The father of American geography
- De Chauliac - The father of modern surgery and hospitals
- Jose de Diego - The father of Puerto Rico's Independence movement
- Lee De Forest - self-proclaimed "father of radio" (inventor of Audion amplifier tube, a key element).
- Democritus - The father of atomic theory
- René Descartes - The father of modern philosophy
- Diophantus - The father of Algebra
- Walt Disney - The father of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disneyland, and Disney Studios of animation
- A. Santos Dumont - The father of aviation
- Allen B. Dumont - The father of modern TV
- John Boyd Dunlop - The father of the modern tire
- Albert Einstein - The father of the Theory of Relativity
- 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
- Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens - The father of experimental brain research
- Charles Fort - The father of modern Paranormalism
- Gottlob Frege - The father of modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy
- Sigmund Freud - The father of psychoanalysis
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