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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• Santiago Ramón y Cajal - The father of Neuroscience
• John Calvin - The father of Protestantism
• 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
• 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
• Frank W. Cyr - father of the yellow school bus