List of people known as the father or mother of something

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.

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• 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
• Edward Bernays - The father of public relations - aka the father of spin
• 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