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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• Fredrik Pacius - The father of Finnish music
• Dorothy G. Page - The mother of the Iditarod
• Phoebe Palmer - The mother of the holiness movement
• Henry Parkes - The father of Australian Federation
• Louis Pasteur - The father of bacteriology, of stereochemistry and of microbiology
• Charles Peirce - The father of pragmatism
• Don Pendleton - The father of the action adventure novel
• Eduard Slavoljub Penkala - The father of the solid-ink fountain pen
• Phan Boi Chau - The father of modern Vietnamese revolutionary philosophy
• Phan Chu Trinh - The father of modern Vietnamese nationalism
• Camille Pissarro - The father of Impressionism
• Henri Poincaré - The father of algebraic topology
• Christopher Polhem - The father of Swedish engineering
• Casimir Pulaski - The father of the United States Army Cavalry
• Pythagoras - The father of numbers