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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• Peter Safar - The father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Paul Sandby - The father of English watercolor painting
• Ferdinand de Saussure - The father of modern linguistics
• Junípero Serra - The father of California
• Ambrose Sevier - The father of Arkansas Statehood
• King Mohammed Zahir Shah - The father of the nation of Afghanistan
• Claude E. Shannon - The father of information theory
• Mary Shelley - The mother of science fiction
• Ras Shorty I - The father of soca music
• Igor Sikorsky - The father of the helicopter
• Adam Smith - The father of modern economics
• Shinji Sogo - The father of the Japanese Bullet Train (the Shinkansen)
• Frank J. Sprague - The father of electric traction
• Niels Steensen - The father of modern paleontology
• John C. Stennis - The father of the modern United States Navy
• Georg Stiernhielm - The father of Swedish poetry
• Sun Yat-sen - The father of the Revolution and the nation of the Republic of China
• Alejandro Tapia y Rivera - The father of Puerto Rican literature