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.

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

Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 - August 1, 2004) was a physicist, editor of scientific literature, and science writer. ... The word nuclear means of or belonging to the nucleus of something. ... Royal Navy Vanguard class submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (September 11, 1743-June 4, 1809), Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm. ... The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... Jane Addams Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and reformer. ... Social Work is a profession carried out by trained professionals or Social Workers in many different countries . ... Mineralogy is an earth science that involves the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. ... Mikael Agricola Mikael Agricola (c. ... Dr. Ricardo Alegría (born April 14, 1921 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican scholar known as the Father of Modern Puerto Rican Archaeology. Dr. Ricardo Alegria Algeria is credited with being a pioneer in the anthropolic studies of the Taino culture and the African heritage in... Eloy Alfaro Delgado (June 25, 1842-January 28, 1912) was president of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. ... This article discusses liberalism as a major political ideology, not the usage of the term in specific countries. ... Steve Allen on the cover of Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was a musician, comedian and writer, who was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Eric Allman (born 1959) is a computer programmer. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28 Susan Brownell Anthony Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Womens suffrage in the United States. ... Virgil Thomson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989) was an American composer from Missouri, whose rural background gave a sense of place in his compositions. ... Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer, poet, feminist, playwright and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ... Sabino Arana Goiri (January 26, 1865 – November 25, 1903), founder of the Basque Nationalist Party. ... The Gernika oak is a symbol of Basque freedoms. ... Peter 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. ... Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. ... Philip Astley (January 8, 1742 - January 27, 1814) is regarded as the father of modern circus. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–November 10, 1938), Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and anti-imperialist statesman, was the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. ... Stephen F. Austin Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836), known as the Father of Texas, led the Anglo-American colonization of the region. ... ... Cyrus Stevens Avery (1871–1963) was known as the Father of Route 66. He created the route while appointed to a federal board to create the Federal Highway System, then pushed for the establishment of the U.S. Highway 66 Association to pave and promote the highway. ... U.S. Highway 66 or Route 66 was a highway in the U.S. Highway system. ... Ismail al-Azhari (Saiyid) (1902 - 1969) was a Sudanese nationalist and political figure. ...

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

Charles Babbage Charles Babbage (December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871) was an English mathematician, analytical philosopher and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. ... A computer was, till a decade back, only a device or machine for processing information from data according to a program — a compiled list of instruction. ... Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical calculations. ... Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843 - 1931) was a U.S. agricultural chemist. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Dairy farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an [animal husbandry] enterprise, raising female cattle for long-term production of milk, which may be either processed on-site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. ... The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and keyboard drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Distionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples... Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. ... Plastic bottles for recycling Plastic is a term that covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Trolo) (Russian — Михаил Александрович Бакунин, Michel Bakunin — on the grave in Bern), (May 30, 1814–June 13, 1876) was a well known Russian anarchist. ... Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of all forms of government, in favor of a society whose members interact on a voluntary basis. ... George Bancroft (October 3, 1800–January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman. ... One of the most famous quotations about history and the value of studying history by Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, reads: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ... Dr. José Celso Barbosa (1857 – December 1921), born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, was a medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader. ... Aaron T. Beck, M.D. (born 1921), The Father of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, is a professor at the Psychopathology Research Unit of the University of Pennsylvania. ... Cognitive therapy or cognitive behavior therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, and other forms of mental disorder. ... Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a scientist, inventor, founder of Bell Canada, and was formerly credited as father of the telephone. ... Telephone This article is about telephone technology. ... Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (April 13, 1808 – October 18, 1896) was an Italian inventor; he is credited as the inventor of the telephone. ... Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 - March 9, 1995) is regarded by many as the father of public relations, although some people believe that title properly belongs to some other early PR practitioner, such as Ivy Lee. ... Public relations is, simply-stated, the art and science of building relationships between an organization and its key audiences. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ... Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (February 22, 1908 – September 28, 1981), the father of Venezuelan democracy, was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964. ... Lorenz Böehler (1885–1973) was a famous Austrian bone surgeon. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... A typical modern surgery operation For other meanings of the word, see Surgery (disambiguation) Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. ... Ben Botkin (1901-1975) was an American folklorist and scholar. ... Public folklore is the term for the work done by folklorists in public settings in the United States and Canada outside of universities and colleges, such as arts councils, museums, folklife festivals, radio stations, etc. ... Folklore is the ethnographic concept of the tales, legends, or superstitions current among a particular population, a part of the Oral tradition or oral history of a particular culture. ... There is more than one person sharing this name. ... One of the most famous quotations about history and the value of studying history by Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, reads: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ... Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe) (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601) was a Danish nobleman known primarily for his work as an astronomer and an astrologer (the two were highly related in his day), as well as an alchemist. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Richard Bright Richard Bright (September 28, 1789-December 16, 1858) was an English physician, who was one of the early pioneers in the research of kidney diseases. ... Nephrology is the branch of internal medicine dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney. ... Milton Brown (1903 - 1936) born in Stephenville, TX was a band leader and vocalist who was one of the founders of Western swing. ... Western swing, also known as Country Swing, is dance music with an up-tempo beat and a decidedly Southwestern US regional flavor. ... James Busby (February 7, 1801 or 1802 - July 15, 1871) is widely regarded as the father of the Australian wine industry, as he took the first collection of vine stock from Spain and France to Australia. ... A glass of red wine Wine is an alcoholic beverage that is made by fermenting grapes or grape juice. ... Nolan Bushnell (February 5, 1943–) is the founder of Atari, Inc. ...

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

John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and is the namesake of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing a split from within the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe —a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ... Audiology is the branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and their disorders. ... John Cassavetes John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989) was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. ... An independent film (or indie film) is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ... Román Baldorioty de Castro (Image: Library of Congress) Román Baldorioty de Castro (February 23, 1823 – September 30, 1889), born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, distinguished himself as one of Puerto Ricos foremost abolitionist and spokesperson for the islands right to self-determination. ... Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related... Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin (Russian: , May 26, 1828 - February 3, 1904) was a respected Russian jurist and politician, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to persevere with liberal reforms. ... This article discusses liberalism as a major political ideology, not the usage of the term in specific countries. ... Dr. Rebekah Colberg (December 25, 1918-July, 1985) born in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico is known as The Mother of Womens Sports in Puerto Rico. When Rebekahs mother gave birth, she was only seven months pregnant and Rebekahs weight was only four pounds. ... Jesus Colon (1901-1974) born in Cayey, Puerto Rico is considered by many to be the Father of the Nuyorican Movement. Colon was born after the Spanish-American War (1898) when the American Tobacco Co. ... The Nuyorican Movement is an intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Ricans or of Puerto Rican descent and who live in or near New York City and call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans. The word Nuyorican derives from a combination of the words New... Alan Cooper is the father of Visual Basic. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ... Nicolaus Copernicus (in Latin; Polish: ; German: ; February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and economist who developed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in a form detailed enough to make it scientifically useful. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force, successors to the Skyblazers. ... The labor movement (or labour movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. ... Joe Cuba (born Jose Calderon (1931) in New York City) is a Puerto Rican musician considered by many to be the Father of Latin Boogaloo. Cubas parents immigrated from Puerto Rico in the late 1920s and settled down in Spanish Harlem, a Hispanic ghetto located in Manhattan. ... Frank W. Cyr (July 7, 1900 - August 1, 1995) was an American educator and author, a specialist in rural education who became known as the Father of the Yellow School Bus. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

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

Joseph Kwame Kyeretwi Boakye Danquah (December 1895 – 4 February 1965), Ghanaian statesman, was one of the primary opposition leaders to Ghanaian president and independence leader Kwame Nkrumah. ... John Nelson Darby John Nelson Darby, (November 18, 1800 - April 29, 1882) was a British evangelist, an influential figure of the original Plymouth Brethren, and considered the father of modern Dispensationalism. ... Dispensationalism is a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall flow of the Bible. ... Nicéphore Niépces first photograph, circa 1826 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (March 7, 1765 – July 5, 1833) was a French inventor, most noted as a pioneer in photography. ... Louis Daguerre Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851) was the French artist and chemist who is recognized for his invention of the Daguerreotype process of photography. ... A camera. ... John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was a British chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ... // Introduction Chemistry is a large field encompassing many subdisciplines that often overlap with significant portions of other sciences. ... In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as a controversial and influential scientist. ... Evolutionary biology is a subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change over time, i. ... William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 - February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist and meteorologist, often called the father of American geography. He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the womens advocate Lucretia... A renowned French surgeon of the 14th century, Guy de Chauliac (1300-1368), was the physician for Pope Clement VI. In Avignon, France, he attended to the Pope and survived an infection of the Black Plague. ... A typical modern surgery operation For other meanings of the word, see Surgery (disambiguation) Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Jose de Diego (1866-1921), born in the City of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, was considered as one of the islands greatest speakers. ... Lee De Forest patented a three-electrode version of the Audion. ... Bust of Democritus Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; died in 370 BC). ... The general meaning of atomic is irreducible. That is, reduced to the smallest possible part. ... Theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ... Friedrich Diercks was born on June 18, 1796, at Burg (Castle) Gödens near the village of Neustadtgödens. ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... Diophantus of Alexandria - Διόφαντος ο Αλεξανδρεύς - (circa 200/214 – circa 284/298) was a Greek mathematician. ... Algebra is a branch of mathematics which studies structure and quantity. ... Walt Disney For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Vasily Vasilievich Dokuchaev (Василий Васильевич Докучаев) (1840 – 1903) was a Russian geologist who is credited with laying foundations of soil science. ... Soil science deals with soil as a natural resource on the surface of the earth including soil formation, classification and mapping; physical, chemical, biological, and fertility properties of soils per se; and these properties in relation to the use and management of soils. ... The Honourable Thomas Clement Douglas, PC , CC , SOM , MA , LL.D (October 20, 1904 – February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian Baptist minister until becoming a democratic socialist politician. ... Several individuals may be recognized as father of the Canadian system of universal public medicare: Tommy Douglas pioneered public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1961 to 1971. ... Peter Ferdinand Drucker (November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was a management theorist who created many phrases common in business today. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Santos-Dumont in his trademark Panama hat. ... ... Dr. Allen Balcom DuMont (January 29, 1901 - November 14, 1965) was an American scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. ... Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. ... photo by Arnold Genthe Isadora Duncan (May 27, 1878 - September 14, 1927) was an American dancer. ... picture of Isadora Duncan - Source: Library of Congress Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. ... John Boyd Dunlop (February 5, 1840 - October 23, 1921) was a Scottish inventor who founded the rubber company that bears his name. ... Firestone tire A tire (U.S. spelling) or tyre (UK spelling) is a roughly toroidal piece of material placed on the circumference of a wheel, either for the purpose of cushioning or to protect the wheel from wear and tear. ...

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

Albert Einstein photographed by Oren J. Turner in 1947. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einsteins theory of relativity is a set of two scientific theories in physics: special relativity and general relativity. ... Fig. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of Americas most influential thinkers and writers. ... Transcendentalism was the name of a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that transcends the physical and empirical and is only realized through a knowledgeable intuitive awareness that is conditional upon the individual. ... Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) is the father of the Internet search engine. ... The success of the Google search engine was mainly due to its powerful PageRank algorithm and its simple, easy-to-use interface. ... Quintus Ennius (239 - 169 BC) was a writer during the period of the Roman Republic, and is often considered the father of Roman poetry. ... Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Brian Eno in 1977 Brian Peter George St. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... William Phelps Eno (1858-1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. ... The field of road safety is concerned with reducing the numbers or the consequences of vehicle crashes, by developing and implementing management systems based in a multidisciplinary and holistic approach, with interrelated activities in a number of fields. ... Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (born December 4, 1918) is known as the father of cryonics. He founded the Cryonics Institute and the related Immortalist Society and until recently served as their President. ... This bigfoot Dewar flask is custom-designed to contain four wholebody patients and six neuropatients immersed in liquid nitrogen at -196 degrees Celsius. ... Leonhard Euler by Emanuel Handmann Leonhard Euler [oilər] (April 15, 1707–September 18, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. ... Fluid mechanics is the subdiscipline of continuum mechanics that studies fluids, that is, liquids and gases. ...

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

Order: 3rd Democratically Elected Governor Term of Office: January 2, 1969–January 2, 1973 Predecessor: Roberto Sánchez Vilella Successor: Rafael Hernández Colón Date of Birth: Saturday, February 17, 1904 Place of Birth: Ponce, Puerto Rico Date of Death: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 Place of Death: San Juan... Reginald Fessinden Early Years Reginald Fessinden was born in East Bolton Quebec in 1866. ... Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video signals (programs) to a number of recipients (listeners or viewers) that belong to a large group. ... This article is actively undergoing a major edit. ... Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was a United States tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner. ... City nickname: The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough Location Location of Miami in the State of Florida Government County Miami-Dade Mayor Manuel “Manny” Diaz (R) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 139. ... Alexander Fleming Sir Alexander Fleming (August 6, 1881 – March 11, 1955) discovered the antibiotic substance lysozyme and isolated the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum, for which he shared a Nobel Prize. ... An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. ... Marie Jean Pierre Flourens (April 15, 1794 - December 6, 1867) was a French physiologist. ... Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (November 8, 1848 – July 26, 1925) was a German mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is regarded as a founder of both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. ... Mathematical logic is a discipline within mathematics, studying formal systems in relation to the way they encode intuitive concepts of proof and computation as part of the foundations of mathematics. ... Analytic philosophy is the dominant philosophical movement of English-speaking countries, although one of its founders, Gottlob Frege, was German, and another, Ludwig Wittgenstein, was Austrian. ... Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; ) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, based on his theory that unconscious motives control much behavior, that particular kinds of unconscious thoughts and memories, especially sexual and aggressive ones, are the source of... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. ... Henry M. Morris Dr Henry Madison Morris (born 1918) is an American young earth creationist and hydraulic engineer, considered the father of the creation science movement. ... Creation science is a part of the creationist movement that claims to offer scientific evidence compatible with creation according to Genesis. ...

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

Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 – Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... The characterization element can require extended and extensive study, even centuries. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869–January 30, 1948) (Devanagari : मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી) was a national icon who led the struggle for Indias independence from British colonial rule, empowered by tens of millions of common Indians. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. ... Genghis Khan â–¶(?) (c. ... Lillian Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 - January 2, 1972) was one of the first working female engineers and PhD. She and her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth were pioneers in the field of industrial engineering. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... Henry Gilman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 19, 1893. ... Organometallic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds containing bonds between carbon and a metal. ... Statue of Giotto di Bondone, close to the Uffizi. ... By region Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance French Renaissance German Renaissance English Renaissance The Renaissance, also known as Il Rinascimento (in Italian), was an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history. ... Robert Goddard Robert Hutchins Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was one of the pioneers of modern rocketry. ... A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine. ... Gorkys autographed portrait Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28; March 16 Old Style, 1868–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... James Gosling (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a famous software developer. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... Benjamin Graham (1894 – 1976) was an influential economist and professional investor who is today often called the father of value investing. He is perhaps best known today from frequent references made to him by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who studied under Graham at Columbia University. ... Thomas Graham (December 21, 1805 – September 16, 1869) was born in Glasgow, Scotland. ... David Lewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director (commonly known as D. W. Griffith) probably best known for his film The Birth of a Nation. ... In film, film grammar is defined as follows: A shot is a single continuous recording made by a camera. ...

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• 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

Fritz Haber in 1918. ... Dressing the wounded during a gas attack by Austin O. Spare, 1918. ... Emmett Matthew Hall (November 9, 1898 - November 11, 1995) was a Canadian jurist and civil libertarian and is considered, with Tommy Douglas, one of the fathers of the Canadian system of Medicare. ... Several individuals may be recognized as father of the Canadian system of universal public medicare: Tommy Douglas pioneered public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1961 to 1971. ... W.C. Handy photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 - March 28, 1958) was an African American blues composer, often known as The Father of the Blues. ... For other uses, see blues (disambiguation) Blues is a vocal and instrumental music form often based on the twelve-bar chord progression. ... Benjamin Robertson Ben Harney (6 March 1871 _ 2 March 1938) was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. ... Ragtime is an American musical genre, enjoying its peak popularity around the years 1900–1918. ... Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) Born Saint Croix V.I. This self-taught and widely hailed Harlem intellectual was editor in 1920 of the Negro World published by Marcus Garvey. ... Harlem is a neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, long known as a major African American cultural and business center. ... In political science, the label radical denotes one who desires extreme change of all or part of the social order. (Britannica Deluxe CD2000). ... (Franz) Joseph Haydn, (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was a leading composer of the Classical period, called the Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet. Although he is still often called Franz Joseph Haydn, Haydn himself actually never used Franz, signing letters and... A symphony is an extended piece of music usually for orchestra and comprising several movements. ... Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822 – 1903) was a teacher, lawyer, an iron manufacturer, U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York City. ... The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ... Jim Henson James Maury Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was one of the most important puppeteers in modern American television history. ... John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... Bust of Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡροδοτος, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. ... One of the most famous quotations about history and the value of studying history by Spanish philosopher, George Santayana, reads: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ... Herophilos, sometimes Latinized Herophilus (335-280 BC), was a Greek physician. ... Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ... Sir Wilhelm Friedrich Herschel, FRS (Hanover, November 15, 1738 – August 25, 1822 Slough, then in Buckinghamshire now in Berkshire) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus, and made many other astronomical discoveries. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ... For other meanings, please see Zionism (disambiguation) Poster promoting a film about Jewish settlement in Palestine, 1930s:Toward a New Life (in Romanian),The Promised Land (in Hungarian) 1844 Discourse on the Restoration of the Jews by Mordecai Noah, page one. ... This topic is considered to be an essential subject on Wikipedia. ... Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body organ system|systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge. ... An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... F-117 Stealth Fighter Stealth technology covers a range of techniques used with aircraft, ships and missiles, in order to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar and other detection methods. ... Robert Elmer Horton (May 18, 1875 - April 22, 1945) was an American ecologist and soil scientist, considered by many to be the father of modern hydrology. ... Water covers 70% of the Earths surface. ... James Hutton, painted by Abner Lowe. ... Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. ...

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• Art Ingels - The father of karting

Art Ingels (sometimes misspelled as Ingles) is known as the father of karting. In 1956, while he was a race car builder at Kurtis Kraft, a famous builder of Indy race cars during the 1950s, he assembled the first go kart out of scrap metal and a surplus West Bend... A kart racer takes a turn on an indoor track Kart racing (as the word is so spelled by enthusiasts) or karting is a variant of open-wheeler motor sport with simple, small four-wheeled vehicles called karts, go-karts, or gearbox/shifter karts depending on the design. ...

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• 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

Abraham Jacobi (May 6, 1830 - July 10, 1919) is considered the father of pediatrics. ... ... Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. ... Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements requiring physical strength, flexibility, and kinesthetic awareness, such as handsprings and handstands. ... Bill James (born June 18, 1949 in Mayetta, Kansas) is an important and influential baseball writer, and is its most influential statistician. ... Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13 (April 2 Old Style), 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second (1797–1801) Vice President, first (1789–1795) United States Secretary of State, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... Website Virginia. ... Edward Hibbard Johnson (born 1846 ? ) was an inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. ... Section of a string of Christmas lights Christmas lights (also sometimes called fairy lights or twinkle lights) are strands of electric lights used to decorate homes and Christmas trees during the holiday season. ... Phillip E. Johnson Phillip E. Johnson (born 1940) is a retired UC Berkeley American law professor and author. ... This article is about intelligent design and the associated social movement. ... This page is about the United States community organizer; there is also a magazine named after her. ... Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), better known as Mother Jones, was a prominent American labor and community organizer. ... Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah (referred to in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam, or Great Leader, which is a legally defined title) (December 25, 1876 - September 11, 1948) was an Indian Muslim nationalist, who led the movement demanding a separate homeland for Muslims in... Theodore Judah (March 4, 1826 - November 2, 1863) was an American engineer who dreamed of the First Transcontinental Railroad. ... ... Poster announcing railroads opening The First Transcontinental Railroad was a transcontinental railroad in North America that was finished in 1869. ...

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• 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

KaraÄ‘orÄ‘e or Карађорђе (November 3, 1768 – July 13, 1817) was the leader of the First Serbian uprising against the Turks, and the founder of the House of KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević. He was born Ђорђе Петровић (ĐorÄ‘e Petrović). Because of his dark complexion and short temper he was nicknamed Black Djordje... Serbia and Montenegro  â€“ Serbia    â€“ Kosovo and Metohia        (UN administration)    â€“ Vojvodina  â€“ Montenegro Official language Serbian1 Capital Belgrade Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % water  88,361 km²  n/a Population  â€“ Total (2002)     (not includinding data for Kosovo and Metohia Province)  â€“ Density  7. ... Wassily Kandinsky On White II (Kandinsky 1923) Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name spelled as [vassi:li]) (December 4, 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born French painter and art theorist. ... Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and colours in a non-representational or subjective way. ... Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (December 1, 1766--1826) a Russian author credited with reforming the Russian literary language. ... Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer of famed brilliance. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (IPA: ) (May 5, 1813 – November 11, 1855), a 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, has achieved general recognition as the first existentialist philosopher. ... Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing, that are primary. ... William Kirby. ... Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ... Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbÄ«;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbÄ«) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished,. In the ancient Judean schools the sages were addressed as רִבִּי (Ribbi or Rebbi... Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) was Russian-born rabbi, Kook is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym HaRaAYaH. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook Born as Rav Kook in Griva, Latvia (then Imperial Russia) in 1865 to Russian Family. ... The Religious Zionist Movement, or Religious Zionism is an ideology combining Zionism and Judaism, which offers Zionism based on the principles of Jewish religion and heritage. ... Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (September 19, 1802 - March 20, 1894), was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, one of the most significant politicians, and for a time was regent. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The United Nations, with its headquarters in New York City, is the largest international diplomatic organization. ...

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• 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

Jack LaLanne in the 1940s Jack LaLanne (born September 26, 1914) is an American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert, celebrity, lecturer, and motivational speaker. ... Fitness in biology refers to individuals ability to propagate its genes. ... Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794) was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. ... // Introduction Chemistry is a large field encompassing many subdisciplines that often overlap with significant portions of other sciences. ... John Edward Lennard-Jones (October 27, 1894 - November 1, 1954) was a mathematician who held a chair of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then a chair of theoretical science at Cambridge University. ... Computational chemistry is a branch of theoretical chemistry whose major goals are to create efficient mathematical approximations and computer programs that calculate the properties of molecules (such as total energy, dipole and quadrupole moment, vibrational frequencies, reactivity and other diverse spectroscopic quantitities and cross sections for collision of molecules with... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Taxonomy (from Greek verb tassein = to classify and nomos = law, science, cf economy) may refer to: the science of classification (see alpha taxonomy) a classification Initially taxonomy was only the science of classifying living organisms, but later the word was applied in a wider sense, and may also refer to... Lucien Alphonse Joseph Lison (1908-1979) was a Belgian/Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist, considered the father of histochemistry. Lison was born in Trazeguier, Belgium. ... ... Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary. ... An antiseptic is a substance that kills or prevents the growth of bacteria on the external surfaces of the body. ... Raymond Loewy standing on one of his designs, the Pennsylvania Railroads S1 steam locomotive. ... Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. ... Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long born July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland and died December 30, 1880 in Texas. ... ... Image of the artist Professor Longhair (nee Henry Roeland Byrd and aka Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a legendary New Orleans blues musician. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues. ... Funk is a distinct style of music originated by African-Americans, e. ... Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529) The Luther seal Martin Luther (November 10, 1483–February 18, 1546) was a German theologian, an Augustinian monk, and an ecclesiastical reformer whose teachings inspired the Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing a split from within the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe —a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ...

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• 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

Bernarr Macfadden (b. ... Detail of the portrait of Machiavelli, ca 1500, in the robes of a Florentine public official Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was a Florentine statesman, political philosopher, historian, musician, poet, and comedic playwright. ... Niccolò Machiavelli, ca 1500, became the key figure in realistic political theory, crucial to political science Political Science is the systematic study of the allocation and transfer of power in decision making. ... Pragmatism is a school of philosophy which originated in the United States in the late 1800s. ... // Small timeline name=James Madison | nationality=american | image name=JamesMadison. ... The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born September 26, 1934 or 1936), born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela, is the ex-wife of former South African president (May 1994-June 1999) and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. ... Marcello Malpighi (March 10, 1628 - November 29, 1694) was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features. ... The Rev. ... Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a prominent German-American philosopher and sociologist of Jewish descent, member of the Frankfurt School. ... The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. ... The Right Honourable Paul Joseph James Martin, PC , CC , MA , LL.D. , QC often known as Paul Martin, Sr. ... Several individuals may be recognized as father of the Canadian system of universal public medicare: Tommy Douglas pioneered public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1961 to 1971. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Japanese rock is a form of popular music, often abbreviated to J-Rock in much the same way that J-Pop is used as an abbreviation of Japanese Pop. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London, England) was an influential philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmens Association. ... Communism refers to a theoretical system of social organization and a political movement based on common ownership of the means of production. ... An etching of George Mason George Mason (December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792) was a United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. ... The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution. ... John McLoughlin (NSHC statue) Dr. John McLoughlin (pronounced mc-lock-lin, October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857), the Father of Oregon, was a fur trader and early settler in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) Senators Ron Wyden (D) Gordon Smith (R) Official language(s) None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Eight-hour day banner, Melbourne, 1856 The Eight-hour day movement, also known as the Short-time movement, had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life and imposed long hours and poor working conditions. ... ... Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 22, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk who is often called the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ... Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ... Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (April 13, 1808 – October 18, 1896) was an Italian inventor; he is credited as the inventor of the telephone. ... Telephone This article is about telephone technology. ... Spike Milligan Spike Milligan, KBE (April 16, 1918 – February 27, 2002) was a comedian, novelist, playwright, poet, jazz musician (trumpet and guitar - also played the piano - and was a dab hand at raspberry blowing) and is best remembered as the creator, principal writer and performing member of The Goon Show. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the performing arts. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, United States Army Air Service William L. (Billy) Mitchell (December 28, 1879–February 19, 1936) was an American general who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force. ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aviation branch of the United States armed forces. ... Bill Monroe Bill Monroe (September 13, 1911 - September 9, 1996) developed the style of country music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the Blue Grass Boys, named for his home state of Kentucky. ... Bluegrass music is considered a form of American roots music with its own roots in the English, Irish and Scottish traditional music of immigrants from the British Isles (particularly the Scots-Irish immigrants of Appalachia), as well as the music of rural African-Americans, jazz, and blues. ... Claudio_Monteverdi (May 15,1567; November 29,1643) was an italian composer, violinist and singer. ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera refers to a dramatic art form, originating in Europe, in which the emotional content is conveyed to the audience as much through music, both vocal and instrumental as it is through the lyrics. ... Robert Aurand Moon (1917-2001), sometimes called Mr. ... Mr. ... Only known photograph of EC Morley Ebenezer Cobb Morley can be regarded as the father of the Football Association and, to a certain extent, therefore, of all organised football. ... The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England (and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man). ... McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915 – April 30, 1983), better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician and is generally considered the father of Chicago blues. ... The Chicago blues is a form of blues music that developed in Chicago by adding electricity, drums, piano, bass guitar and sometimes saxophone to the basic string/harmonica Delta blues. ... Johannes Peter Müller (July 14, 1801 - April 28, 1858), German physiologist and comparative anatomist, was born at Coblenz. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ...

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• 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

Antonin Nechodoma (born 1877), who is also alternatively known as Antonio Nechodoma, was a Puerto Rican architect who is called by many the father of Puerto Rican architecture. ... Gaylord Nelson Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916–July 3, 2005) was a Democratic American politician from Wisconsin. ... Earth flag Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earths fragile environment. ... John von Neumann in the 1940s. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns. ... Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (25 December 1642 (OS) – 20 March 1727 (OS) / 4 January 1643 (NS) – 31 March 1727 (NS)) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and alchemist. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Abu Nidal in the 1970s, in one of only a handful of photographs of him known to exist. ... Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820–13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was the pioneer of modern nursing. ... Nursing is a discipline focused on assisting individuals, families and communities in attaining, re-attaining and maintaining optimal health and functioning. ... Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov [sap-ar-moor-at ni-yaz-ov] (Turkmen Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow; Russian: Сапармурат Атаевич Ниязов) (born February 19, 1940) has been the most powerful figure in Turkmenistan since 1985. ... Sondre Norheim (June 10, 1825 - March 9, 1897) was the pioneer of modern skiing. ... Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ... Portrait of Nikolay Novikov, by Dmitry Levitzky. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, analyzing and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ...

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• 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

Alejandro OReilly (1722-1794) was the second Spanish governor of colonial Louisiana, and the first Spanish governor of the territory to exercise power. ... Oberth (in front) with fellow ABMA employees Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894 - December 28, 1989) was a German physicist and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. ... Currently, the most common technology for space transport is rocket propulsion, which expels matter to provide a net forward thrust. ... J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

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• 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

Fredrik Pacius (or Friedrich Pacius) (1809-1891) was German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. ... Much of the music of Finland is influenced by Karelian traditional tunes and lyrics, as comprised in the Kalevala. ... Dorothy G. Page (died November 16, 1989) is best known for being the Mother of the Iditarod, the 1,049 mile (about 1,600 km) dog sled race across the U.S. state of Alaska. ... The original 1925 train route to Nenana is in gray, and the southern route of the modern race is in red (part of the National Historic Iditarod Trail. ... Phoebe Palmer (December 17, 1807 – November 2, 1874) was an evangelist and writer who promoted the doctrine of Christian perfection. ... The holiness movement is composed of people who believe and propagate the belief that the carnal nature of man can be cleansed through faith and by the power of the Holy Spirit if one has had his sins forgiven through faith in Jesus. ... Sir Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896), Australian politician, is sometimes called the Father of Federation and is at least considered the most prominent among the Australian Founding Fathers. ... Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. ... Microbiology (in Greek micron = small and biologia = studying life) is the study of microorganisms, including unicellular (single-celled) eukaryotes and prokaryotes, fungi, and viruses. ... Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, involves the study of the relative spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules. ... Microbiology (in Greek micron = small and biologia = studying life) is the study of microorganisms, including viruses, prokaryotes and simple eukaryotes. ... Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders/Santiago Peirce (pronounced purse), September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914, was an American polymath, the founder of pragmatism and one of the founders of semiotics. ... Pragmatism is a school of philosophy which originated in the United States in the late 1800s. ... Don Pendleton (December 12, 1927 - October 23, 1995) was a writer, best known for the creation of American hero Mack Bolan. ... Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (April 20, 1871 - February 5, 1922) was an engineer and inventor from Croatia. ... A fountain pen is a writing instrument, more specifically a pen, that contains a reservoir of water-based ink that is fed to a nib through a feed via a combination of gravity and capillary action. ... Phan Bội Châu (1867-1940) was a pioneer of Vietnamese 20th century nationalism. ... Phan Chu Trinh (His name has no tones, this is a correct spelling) also known as Phan Châu Trinh (1872 - 1926) was a famous early 20th century Vietnamese nationalist. ... // Nationalism is an ideology which holds that the nation, ethnicity or national identity is a fundamental unit of human social life, and makes certain political claims based upon that belief; above all, the claim that the nation is the only legitimate basis for the state, and that each nation is... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s. ... Henri Poincaré, photograph from the frontispiece of the 1913 edition of Last Thoughts Jules Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of Frances greatest mathematicians, theoretical scientists and a philosopher of science. ... Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics in which tools from abstract algebra are used to study topological spaces. ... Christopher Polhem (December 18, 1661- August 30, 1751) was a Swedish scientist and inventor, born in Visby on the island of Gotland. ... For things named to honor Kazimierz Pułaski, see: Pulaski (disambiguation). ... US Army Seal HHC, US Army Distinctive Unit Insignia The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Italian cavalry officers practice their horsemanship in 1904 outside Rome. ... This topic is considered to be an essential subject on Wikipedia. ... A number is an abstract entity used originally to describe quantity. ...

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• Manuel L. Quezon - The father of the Filipino language

Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (August 19, 1878 – August 1, 1944) was the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. ... Filipino (formerly called Pilipino) is the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines along with English. ...

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• 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

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ради́щев) (1749 – 1802) was a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great. ... In political science, the label radical denotes one who desires extreme change of all or part of the social order. (Britannica Deluxe CD2000). ... Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Wilhelm Radloff (1837-1918) was the German-born Russian founder of Turcology, or the scientific study of the Turkic peoples. ... The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ... Gertrude Pridgett Rainey, better known as Ma Rainey (April 26, 1886 - December 22, 1939) was a blues singer, the earliest known professional blues singer3, and one of the first generation of blues singers to record. ... For other uses, see blues (disambiguation) Blues is a vocal and instrumental music form often based on the twelve-bar chord progression. ... HRH Prince Damrong Rajanubhab (Thai including his full title: สมเด็จพระเจ้าบรมวงศ์เธอ กรมพระยาดำรงราชานุภาพ) (June 21, 1862 – December 1, 1943) was the founder of the modern Thai education system as well as the modern provincial administration. ... Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852–October 17/18, 1934) was a Spanish histologist and is considered to be the father of modern neuroscience. ... Neuroscience is a field of study which deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and pathology of the nervous system, divided most generally into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the... Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (August 9, 1892, Shiyali, Tamil Nadu - September 27, 1972, Bangalore) was an innovative mathematician and librarian from India. ... Fundamental Concepts Library and information science (LIS) is the study of issues related to libraries. ... Jef Raskin outdoors, photographed by his son, Aza Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984. ... Joe Redington, Senior (February 1, 1917 – June 12, 1999) was an American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the Father of the Iditarod dog sled race, which runs 1,049 miles¹ across the U.S. state of Alaska. ... The original 1925 train route to Nenana is in gray, and the southern route of the modern race is in red (part of the National Historic Iditarod Trail. ... Johannes Müller von Königsberg (June 6, 1436 – July 6, 1476), known by his Latin pseudonym Regiomontanus, was an important German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Mikołaj Rej Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Naglowice (1505-1569) was one of the best known Polish poets and writers of the Renaissance. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... Hyman George Rickover, M.Sc, (January 27, 1900 - July 8, 1986) was a US Navy Admiral known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy. ... Nuclear navy, or nuclear powered navy consists of ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as naval reactors. ... Louis Riel Louis David Riel (October 22, 1844 – November 16, 1885), was a Canadian politician and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Glorious and free) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Area 647,797 km² (8th) • Land 553,556 km² • Water 64,241 km² (14. ... James Charles Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) was the first country music superstar. ... Country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic Music, Blues, Gospel, and Old-Time music. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. ... Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... During the French Revolution (1789-1799) democracy and republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the French sector of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...

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• 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

Peter Safar was an Austrian physician of Czech descent, born April 12, 1924 in Vienna (Austria), died August 2, 2003 in Mt. ... {{dablink|For other meanings of CPR, see oisin is a stupid idiot Wikibooks has more about this subject: First Aid/CPR Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), is emergency first aid for an unconscious person on whom breathing and pulse cannot be detected. ... Paul Sandby (1725 – 9 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in water-colours, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Carl Larsson, Crayfishing, watercolor, 1897 Watercolor is a painting technique using paint made of colorants suspended or dissolved in water. ... Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. ... Blessed Junípero Serra (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Majorcan (Spain) Franciscan who founded the mission chain in Alta California. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official language(s) English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Ambrose Hundley Sevier (4 November 1801 _ 31 December 1848) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate from Arkansas. ... State nickname: The Natural State Other U.S. States Capital Little Rock Largest city Little Rock Governor Mike Huckabee (R) Senators Blanche Lincoln (D) Mark Pryor (D) Official language(s) English Area 137,732 km² (29th)  - Land 134,856 km²  - Water 2,876 km² (2. ... Mohammed Zahir Shah (born October 16, 1914) was the last King of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973. ... Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... Information theory is the mathematical theory of data communication and storage founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon. ... Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley née Godwin (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) was an English novelist who is perhaps equally famous as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Ras Shorty I (October 6, 1941-July 12, 2000) is a soca musician, known as the Father of Soca and The Love Man. ... Soca is a dance music which is a mix of Trinidads calypso and Indian music and rhythms, especially chutney music -- it is not, as is often said, a fusion of soul and calypso. ... Igor Sikorsky Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (Игорь Иванович Сикорский; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972) was a Russian pioneer of aviation who designed the first four-engine aeroplanes and the first successful helicopter of the most common configuration (single main rotor with tail rotor). ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors (propellers). ... Portrait of John Smeaton, with the Eddystone Lighthouse in the background. ... For other people named Adam Smith, see Adam Smith (disambiguation). ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization... Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama Station, April 2002 Shinkansen 500 Series at Kyoto Station, April 2002 300 (Left) and 700 Series Shinkansen at Tokyo Station The Shinkansen (新幹線) is a network of high speed rail lines in Japan, upon which the famous Bullet Trains run. ... Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama Station, April 2002 Shinkansen 500 Series at Kyoto Station, March 2005 300 (Left) and 700 Series Shinkansen at Tokyo Station The Shinkansen (Japanese: 新幹線) is a network of high-speed railway lines in Japan. ... Samuel Spencer (1847 – November 26, 1906) was an American civil engineer, businessman, and railroad executive. ... The Southern Railway (AAR designation SOU) was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined since the 1830s. ... Frank Julian Sprague (1857-1934) American inventor, Father of Electric Traction Frank Julian Sprague (1857–1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. ... a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... Nicholas John Spykman (b. ... Containment refers to the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. ... Nicolaus Steno. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Sen. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Georg Stiernhielm (August 7, 1598 - April 22, 1672) was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1866 – March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary leader who had a significant role in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. ... National motto: None Official language Mandarin Chinese Capital and largest city Taipei President Chen Shui-bian Premier Frank Hsieh Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 138th 35,980 km² 2. ... Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (November 12, 1826 – July 19, 1882) was a poet and writer from San Juan, Puerto Rico. ...

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• 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

Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (November 12, 1826 – July 19, 1882) was a poet and writer from San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... Manuel Gregorio Tavarez (November 16, 1843 - July 1, 1883), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, was Puerto Ricos first renowned classical and danza composer and the inspiration behind future generations of composers. ... Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicized as Tertullian, (ca. ... Karl von Terzaghi ([ [ Praga ] ], [ [ de octubre el 2 ] ], [ [ 1883 ] ] � [ [ Winchester, Massachusetts ] ], [ [ de octubre el 25 ] ], [ [ 1963 ] ]) fue llamado el padre de [ [ == de los mec�nicos del suelo ]]. ven que tambi�n == * [ [ ingenier�a geot�cnica ] ] * [ [ las clasificaciones totales de la roca ] ] * [ [ muro de contenci�n ] ] * [ [ hundimiento ] ] el == reserva el == * Terzaghi... Soil mechanics is a discipline that applies the principles of Engineering mechanics to predict the mechanical behavior of soil. ... Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – c. ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in ÅŒsaka. ... A page from the Marmalade Boy manga, volume 1 (Japanese version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics and/or cartoons (not necessarily animated, this includes print cartoons); outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... LaMarcus Adna Thompson (March 8, 1848 - May 8, 1919) is best known for his early work developing rollercoasters, and is sometimes called the His Switchback Railway opened at Coney Island in 1884 and was the first rollercoaster built in the United States. ... A typical roller coaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Leon Trotsky Leon Davidovich Trotsky â–¶(?) (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij and Trotzky ) (October 26 (O.S.) = November 7 (N.S.), 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... A Red Army is a communist army. ... Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Konstanty CioÅ‚kowski), (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский; September 5, 1857 new style – September 19, 1935) was a Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics who spent most of his life in a log-house at the outskirts of the Russian town of Kaluga. ... Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to dog-manned space missions, which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes). ... Astronautics is the branch of engineering that deals with machines designed to work outside of Earths atmosphere, whether manned or unmanned. ... The Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper PC , GCMG , CB , DCL , LL.D , MD (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was the sixth Prime Minister of Canada and, as of 2005, the one with the shortest term of office. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Alan Turing is often considered the father of modern computer science. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Wikipedia articles needing priority cleanup | Computer science ... Julia DeForest Tuttle (nee Sturtevant, c. ... City nickname: The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough Location Location of Miami in the State of Florida Government County Miami-Dade Mayor Manuel “Manny” Diaz (R) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 139. ... Cardiology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. ...

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• 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

Edgar (or Edgard) Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer, who moved to the United States in 1915, and took American citizenship in 1926. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Владимир Иванович Вернадский) (March 12, 1863, N.S. [ February 28, O.S. ] – January 6, 1945) was a Russian mineralogist and geochemist who first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea biosphere to the meaning largely recognized by todays scientific community. ... The field of geochemistry involves study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, chemical processes and reactions that govern the composition of rocks and soils, and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earths chemical components in time and space, and their interaction with... Andreas Vesalius or Andreas Vesal (1514 - Belgian anatomist and the author of the first complete textbook on human anatomy: De Humanis Corporis Fabrica (On the workings of the Human Body) (Basel, 1543). ... Anatomical drawing of the human muscles from the Encyclopédie. ... Carl Vinson (November 18, 1883_June 1, 1981) was a Democratic United States Congressman from Georgia who served for over fifty years in the U.S. House. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov (1729-1763) is known as the father of Russian theatre. ... Faust Vrančić (1551, Šibenik - January 17, 1617, Venice), also known as Faust Verantius, was a humanist, philosopher, historian, lexicographer, and inventor. ... The Apollo 15 capsule landed safely despite a parachute failure. ...

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

John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922) was a United States businessman, considered the father of the department store and the father of modern advertising. ... A JC Penney department store. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American planter, political figure, the highest ranking military leader in U.S. history and first President of the United States. ... Alice Waters (born 28 April 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey) is a well-known American chef. ... California cuisine is a cuisine marked by an interest in fusion— integrating disparate cooking styles and ingredients— and which, out of respect for the states health-conscious tradition, tends to produce food which is fresh and/or lean, rather than manufactured and/or fried. ... John B. Watson John Broadus Watson (January 9, 1878–September 25, 1958) was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. ... John B. Watson was one of the important influences on the development of behaviorism. ... Isaac Watts. ... A hymn is a song specifically written as a song of praise, adoration or prayer, typically addressed to a god. ... The American Physical Society was founded in 1899 and is the worlds largest organization of physicists. ... Alfred Wegeners theory of continental drift was widely ridiculed in his day. ... Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for one who constructs, τεκτων, tekton) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift, and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. ... Portrayal of shifting continents The concept of continental drift was first proposed by Alfred Wegener. ... Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 - March 18, 1964) was an US mathematician, known as the founder of cybernetics. ... Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. ... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the First World War at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. ... Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation between nations for the benefit of all. ... Johann Joachim Winckelmann (November 9, 1717–June 8, 1768) was a German archaeologist. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... Sergei Iulevich Witte (Серге́й Ю́льевич Ви́тте) (June 29, 1849 – March 13, 1915), also known as Sergius Witte, served as Russian Director of Railway Affairs within the Finance Ministry from 1889 – 1891, Transportation Minister (1892), Finance Minister from 1892 to 1903, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers (1903 – 1905) and Chairman... The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 - January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 - May 30, 1912), are generally credited with the design and construction of the first practical aeroplane, and making the first controllable, powered heavier-than-air flight along with many other aviation milestones. ... ... Wilhelm Max Wundt (August 16, 1832–August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. ... Psychology (Classical Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of behavior and its relationship to the mind and brain. ...

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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

Gazi YaÅŸargil Mahmut Gazi YaÅŸargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon born on July 6, 1925 in Lice, Diyarbakır, Turkey. ... Rouzbeh Yassini is an Iranian-American engineer, considered to be the father of the cable modem. ... A cable modem is a special type of modem that is designed to modulate a data signal over cable television infrastructure. ... Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (אליעזר בן־יהודה) (b. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ...

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• Yevgeny Zamyatin - The father of dystopian literature
• Zeno of Citium - The Father of Stoicism

Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Aldous Huxleys Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand... A dystopia (or alternatively cacotopia) is a fictional society, usually portrayed as existing in a future time, when the conditions of life are extremely bad due to deprivation, oppression, or terror. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... Zeno of Citium Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (333 BC-264 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus. ... A restored Stoa in Athens. ...

See also

• Fathers of Confederation (Canada)