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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• Antonin Nechodoma - the father of Puerto Rican architecture
• Gaylord Nelson - the father of Earth Day http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/03/obit.nelson.ap/
• 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 the Arab struggle and 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