List of Fathers or founders of a particular field or invention is very important topic in Competitive exams. Students should know the important ones so that they maximize their chances of scoring in GK. The article will talk about the Father’s of various fields that are important for the General Awareness Section of various competitive exams. Candidates preparing for upcoming Government exams must go through the list of Father’s of different fields as general knowledge or awareness forms an important part of the syllabus of these examinations. Candidates can also download the list of father’s of different fields in PDF format.
List of Fathers:
| SL NO | Name of Field | Name of Person |
| 1. | Father of Missile Program | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam) |
| 2. | Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
| 3. | Father of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| 4. | Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys
Lalji Singh (India) |
| 5. | Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 6. | Father of Comic Books | Stan Lee (Father of Marvel Comics)
Anant Pai (Father of Indian Comics) |
| 7. | Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| 8. | Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
| 9. | Father of Microbiology/Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| 10. | Father of Comedy | Aristophanes |
| 11. | Father of Biology/ Zoology/ Embryology/ Political Science | Aristotle |
| 12. | Father of Sociology | Auguste Comte |
| 13. | Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| 14. | Father of Paleobotany | Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart
Birbal Sahni (India) |
| 15. | Father of Modern Biochemistry | Carl Alexander Neuberg |
| 16. | Father of Classification/ Father of Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
| 17. | Father of Taxonomy in India | Henry Santapau |
| 18. | Father of Computer | Charles Babbage |
| 19. | Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| 20. | Father of Physiology | Claude Bernard |
| 21. | Father of Indian Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke) |
| 22. | Father of Modern Cinema | David Wark Griffith |
| 23. | Father of Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
| 24. | Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 25. | Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) |
| 26. | Father of Vaccination/ Father of immunology | Edward Jenner |
| 27. | Father of Biodiversity | Edward O Wilson |
| 28. | Father of Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| 29. | Father of Geography | Eratosthenes |
| 30. | Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| 31. | Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| 32. | Father of Modern Finance | Eugene F. Fama |
| 33. | Father of Modern Ecology | Eugene P. Odum |
| 34. | Father of Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
| 35. | Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
| 36. | Father of Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| 37. | Father of Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
| 38. | Father of Modern Physics | Galileo Galilei |
| 39. | Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 40. | Father of Computer Science | George Boole and Alan Turing |
| 41. | Father of Aviation | George Cayley |
| 42. | Father of Railways | George Stephenson |
| 43. | Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| 44. | Father of Homeopathy | Heinemann |
| 45. | Father of History | Herodotus |
| 46. | Father of Western Medicine/Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 47. | Father of Blue Revolution | Hiralal Chaudhari |
| 48. | Father of Nuclear (Indian Nuclear science)/Atomic Program | Homi J.Bhabha |
| 49. | Father of Mutation theory | Hugo De Vries |
| 50. | Father of Architecture | Imhotep |
| 51. | Father of Classical mechanics | Isaac Newton |
| 52. | Father of Radio Science in India | J C Bose |
| 53. | Father of Civil Aviation | J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) |
| 54. | Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 55. | Father of Modern Geology | James Hutton |
| 56. | Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
| 57. | Father of Geography | Eratosthenes |
| 58. | Father of Modern Education | John Amos Comenius |
| 59. | Father of Modern Democracy | John Locke |
| 60. | Father of Artificial Intelligence | John Mccarthy |
| 61. | Father of Robotics | Joseph F. Engelberger |
| 62. | Father of Biotechnology | Karl Ereky |
| 63. | Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| 64. | Father of Bacteriology | Louis Pasteur |
| 65. | Father of Indian Phycology/ Father of Algology in India | M. O. P. Iyengar (Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar) |
| 66. | Father of Green Revolution | M. S. Swaminathan (Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan) (India)
Normal Borlaug |
| 67. | Father of Modern Economics | Paul Samuelson
M.G.Ranade (Mahadev Govind Ranade) (Father of Indian Economics) |
| 68. | Father of the Nation (India) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 69. | Father of Modern Economic Reforms (India) | Manmohan Singh |
| 70. | Father of Nuclear Science | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
| 71. | Father of Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
| 72. | Father of Quantum mechanics | Max Planck |
| 73. | Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
| 74. | Father of Peasant Movement | N. G. Ranga (Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu) |
| 75. | Father of Modern Political science | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 76. | Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 77. | Father of the Green Revolution/Father of Agriculture | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| 78. | Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
| 79. | Father of Sanstrik Grammar | Panini |
| 80. | Father of Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
| 81. | Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
| 82. | Father of Modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
| 83. | Father of Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
| 84. | Father of Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
| 85. | Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
| 86. | Father of Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| 87. | Father of Indian Ecology | Ramdeo Mishra |
| 88. | Father of Email | Ray Tomlinson |
| 89. | Father of Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
| 90. | Father of Nanotechnology | Richard Smalley |
| 91. | Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| 92. | Father of Thermodynamics | Sadi Carnot |
| 93. | Father of India’s Communication Revolution | Sam Pitroda |
| 94. | Father of New France | Samuel de Champlain |
| 95. | Father of Veterinary Science | Shalihotra (India) |
| 96. | Father of Psychology | Sigmund Freud |
| 97. | Father of Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
| 98. | Father of Civil Engineering | John Smeaton
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (India) |
| 99. | Father of Air Force | Subroto Mukerjee (IAF) |
| 100. | Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| 101. | Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| 102. | Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| 103. | Father of White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
| 104. | Father of Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
| 105. | Father of Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
| 106. | Father of Internet | Vint Cerf |
| 107. | Father of American Football | Walter Chauncey Camp |
| 108. | Father of Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
| 109. | Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| 110. | Father of Modern Physics | Albert Einstein |
| 111. | Father of Microbiology | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| 112. | Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 113. | Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| 114. | Father of Nuclear Science | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
| 115. | Father of Computer Science | George Boole and Alan Turing |
| 116. | Father of Classification | Carl linneaus |
| 117. | Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| 118. | Father of modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
| 119. | Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
| 120. | Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| 121. | Father of Internet | Vint Cerf |
| 122. | Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| 123. | Father of Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| 124. | Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| 125. | Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
| 126. | Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
| 127. | Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
| 128. | Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 129. | Father of Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
| 130. | Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 131. | Father of Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
| 132. | Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| 133. | Father of Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| 134. | Father of Laptop | Bill Moggridge |
| 135. | Father of Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
| 136. | Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| 137. | Father of New France | Samuel de Champlain |
| 138. | Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
| 139. | Father of Plastic Surgery | Sushruta |
| 140. | Father of Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
| 141. | Father of Western Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 142. | Father of Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 143. | Father of Astronomy | Copernicus |
| 144. | Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| 145. | Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
| 146. | Father of History | Herodotus |
| 147. | Father of Classical mechanics | Isaac Newton |
| 148. | Father of Comedy | Aristophanes |
| 149. | Father of English poetry | GeoffreyChaucer |
| 150. | Father of Homeopathy | Heinemann |
| 151. | Father of India’s Communication Revolution | Sam Pitroda |
| 152. | Father of Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
| 153. | Father of Modern Political science | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 154. | Father of Quantum mechanics | Max Planck |
| 155. | Father of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| 156. | Father of Robotics | Joseph F. Engelberger |
| 157. | Father of Thermodynamics | Sadi Carnot |
| 158. | Father of Zoology | Aristotle |
| 159. | Father of Blood groups | Landsteiner |
| 160. | Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| 161. | Father of Bacteriology | Louis Paster |
| 162. | Father of Artificial Intelligence | John Mccarthy |
| 163. | Father of White Revolution | Varghese khurien |
| 164. | Father of Bio Technology | Karl ereky |
| 165. | Father of Botony | Theophrastus |
| 166. | Father of Vaccination | Edward Jenner |
| 167. | Father of Embiriology | Aristotle |
| 168. | Father of Geography | Erithosthenus |
| 169. | Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| 170. | Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys |
| 171. | Father of Psychology | Sigmund Freud |
| 172. | Father of Cloning | Ian Wilmut |
| 173. | Father of Printing | Guttenberg |
| 174. | Father of History | Herodotus |
| 175. | Father of Philosophy | Socrates |
| 176. | Father of Sociology | Augustus Comte |
| 177. | Father of Sociology in India | Govind Sadashiv Ghurye |
| 178. | Father of Indian Statistics | Prasant Chandra Mahalanobis |
| 179. | Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 180. | Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| 181. | Father of Essay | Montaigne |
| 182. | Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 183. | Father of Homeopathy | Samuel Haniman |
| 184. | Father of Socialism | Robert Owen |
| 185. | Father of Scientific Socialism | Karl Marx |
| 186. | Father of Co-operation | Robert Owen |
| 187. | Father of Jurisprudence | John Locke |
| 188. | Father of Atom Bomb | Otto Hahn |
| 189. | Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| 190. | Father of Motor Car | Henry Ford |
| 191. | Father of Reformation | Martin Luther |
| 192. | Father of Greek Democracy | Clesthenes |
| 193. | Father of Bangladesh | Sheikh Mujibur Rehman |
| 194. | Father of Pakistan | Muhammed Ali Jinnah |
| 195. | Father of Tanzania | Julius Nyrere |
| 196. | Father of Mathematics | Pythagorus |
| 197. | Father of Modern Cartoon | William Hogarth |
| 198. | Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| 199. | Father of Modern Drama | Henrik J. Ibsen |
| 200. | Father of Modern Tourism | Thomas Cook |
| 201. | Father of Painting | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 202. | Father of Green Revolution | Norman Borlaug |
| 203. | Father of Pink Revolution | Durgesh Patel |
| 204. | Father of Gold Revolution | Nirpak Tutaj |
| 205. | Father of Silver Revolution | Indira Gandhi |
| 206. | Father of Renaissance | Petrarch |
| 207. | Father of Nation | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 208. | Father of Ayurveda | Athreya |
| 209. | Father of Astronomy | Varahamihira |
| 210. | Father of Sanskrit Drama | Kalidasa |
| 211. | Father of Indian Renaissance | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| 212. | Father of Surgery | Susruta |
| 213. | Father of Indian Unrest | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| 214. | Father of Indian Budge | Professor Mahalanobis |
| 215. | Father of Indian Painting | Nandalal Bose |
| 216. | Father of Indian Cinema | Dada Saheb Phalke |
| 217. | Father of Indian Engineering | M.Visweswariah |
| 218. | Father of Indian Green Revolution | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan |
| 219. | Father of Indian Railway | Lord Dalhousie |
| 220. | Father of Co-operative Movement in India | Frederic Nicholson |
| 221. | Father of Indian Printing | James Hickey |
| 222. | Father of Local Self Government in India | Lord Ripon |
| 223. | Father of Agronomy | Peter – De- Cresenji |
| 224. | Father of Agriculture | Norman Borlaug |
| 225. | Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 226. | Father of Architecture | Imhotep |
| 227. | Father of Aviation | George Cayley |
| 228. | Father of Botony | Theophrastus |
| 229. | Father of Biology | Aristotle |
| 230. |
Father of Bacteriology |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Koch / Ferdinand Cohn / Louis Pasteur |
| 231. | Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| 232. | Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| 233. | Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| 234. | Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| 235. | Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
| 236. | Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| 237. | Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| 238. | Father of Genetics | G. J. Mendel |
| 239. | Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| 240. | Father of Modern Computer | Alan Turing |
| 241. | Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier |
| 242. | Father of Modern Physics | Galileo Galilei |
| 243. | Father of Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 244. | Father of Modern Management | Peter Georg Ferdinand Drucker |
| 245. | Father of Modern Physiology | Wilhelm Wundt |
| 246. | Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 247. | Father of Modern Biochemistry | Carl Alexander Neuberg |
| 248. | Father of Immunology | Edward Jenner’s |
| 249. | Father of Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
| 250. | Father of Internet | Vint Cerf |
| 251. | Father of Nano Technology | Richard Smalley |
| 252. | Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| 253. | Father of Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| 254. | Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernst Rutherford |
| 255. | Father of Indian Nuclear Science | Homi Jehangir Bhabha |
| 256. | Father of Railways | George Stephenson |
| 257. | Father of Physiology | Sigmund Freud |
| 258. | Father of Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
| 259. | Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
| 260. | Father of Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
| 261. | Father of Palynology | Erdtman |
| 262. | Father of Biodiversity | Edward O. Wilson |
| 263. | Father of Genetics | Hugo de Vries |
| 264. | Father of Email | Ray Tomlinson |
| 265. | Father of Modern Cinema | David Wark Griffith |
| 266. | Father of Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
| 267. | Father of Modern Democracy | John Locke |
| 268. | Father of Modern Ecology | Eugene P. Odum |
| 269. | Father of Modern Education | John Amos Comenius |
| 270. | Father of Modern Finance | Eugene F. Fama |
| 271. | Father of Modern Geology | James Hutton |
| 272. | Father Of Indian Constitution | B R Ambedkar |
| 273. | Father of Indian Ecology | Ramdeo Mishra |
| 274. | Father of Green Revolution in India | Dr M S Swaminathan |
| 275. | Father of White Revolution in India | Verghese Kurien |
| 276. | Father of Blue Revolution in India | Dr Arun Krishnan |
| 277. | Father of Radio Science in India | J C Bose |
| 278. | Father of Indian Phycology | M O P Iyengar |
| 279. | Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 280. | Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
| 281. | Father of the Indian irrigation system | Kanuri Lakshmana Rao |
| 282. | Father of Indian Software Industry | Faqir Chand Kohli |
| 283. | Father of Indian Industry | Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata |
| 284. | Father of Indian journalism | James Augustus Hickey |
| 285. | Father of modern legal education in India | N. R. Madhava Menon |
| 286. | Father of library science in India | Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan |
| 287. | Father of Indian mathematics | Aryabhata |
| 288. | Father of Indian Pharmacy | Mahadeva Lal Schroff |
| 289. | Father of Indian Pediatrics | Dr. George Coelho |
| 290. | Father of Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
| 291. | Father of Indian Comic Books | Anant Pai |
| 292. | Father of White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
| 293. | Father of Veterinary Science | Shalihotra |
| 294. | Father of Pink Revolution in India | Durgesh Patel |
| 295. | Father of Silver Revolution | Indira Gandhi |
| 296. | Father of Gold Revolution | Nirpakh Tutaj |
| 297. | Father of Indian quizzing | Neil O’Brien |
| 298. | Father of Indian Railways | Lord Dalhousie |
| 299. | Father of Indian sociology | Govind Sadashiv Ghurye |
| 300. | Father of Indian statistics | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis |
| 301. | Father of Indian taxonomy | Henry Santapau |
| 302. | Father of the Trade Union Movement | Narayan Meghaji Lokhande |
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