The following is a list of significant men and women known for being the father, mother, or considered the founders mostly in Western societies in a field, listed by category. In most non-science fields, the title of being the “father” is debatable.
| Sl No. |
Fields |
Father of that field |
| 1 |
American Football |
Walter Camp |
| 2 |
Astronomy |
Copernicus |
| 3 |
Ayurveda |
Dhanwantari |
| 4 |
Biology |
Aristotle |
| 5 |
Botany |
Theophrastus |
| 6 |
Chemistry |
Antoine Lavoisier |
| 7 |
Classical mechanics |
Isaac Newton |
| 8 |
Comedy |
Aristophanes |
| 9 |
Computer |
Charles Babbage |
| 10 |
Computer Science |
George Boole and Alan Turing |
| 11 |
Economics |
Adam Smith |
| 12 |
Electricity |
Benjamin Franklin |
| 13 |
English poetry |
GeoffreyChaucer |
| 14 |
Evolution |
Charles Darwin |
| 15 |
Genetics |
|
| 16 |
Geometry |
Euclid of Alexandria |
| 17 |
History |
Herodotus |
| 18 |
Homeopathy |
Heinemann |
| 19 |
Humanism |
Francesco Petrarca |
| 20 |
Indian Green Revolution |
M.S. Swaminathan |
| 21 |
India’s Communication Revolution |
Sam Pitroda |
| 22 |
Internet |
Vint Cerf |
| 23 |
Laptop |
Bill Moggridge |
| 24 |
Medicine |
Hippocrates |
| 25 |
Microbiology |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
| 26 |
Microscopy |
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek |
| 27 |
Mobile Phone |
Martin Cooper |
| 28 |
Modern Astronomy |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 29 |
modern Medicine |
Hippocrates |
| 30 |
modern Olympic |
Pierre De Coubertin |
| 31 |
Modern physics |
Galileo Galilei |
| 32 |
Nuclear Chemistry |
Otto Hahn |
| 33 |
Nuclear physics |
Ernest Rutherford |
| 34 |
Nuclear science |
Marie Curie , Pierre Curie |
| 35 |
Numbers |
Pythagoras |
| 36 |
Pentium Chip |
Vinod Dham |
| 37 |
Periodic table |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 38 |
Plastic Surgery |
Sir Harold Gillies |
| 39 |
Psychology |
Sigmund Freud |
| 40 |
Scientific Management |
Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| 41 |
Surgery |
Sushruta |
| 42 |
Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| 43 |
Television |
Vladimir K. Zworykin |
| 44 |
American Constitution |
James Madison |
| 45 |
Green Revolution |
Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| 46 |
Green Revolution in India |
M.S Swaminathan |
| 47 |
Indian Constitution |
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar |
| 48 |
Walter Camp |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 49 |
Western Medicine |
Hippocrates |