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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• Manuel Gregorio Tavarez - The father of the Puerto Rican Danzas
• Edward Teller - The father of the hydrogen bomb
• Tertullian - The father of Latin Theology
• Karl von Terzaghi - The father of soil mechanics
• Nikola Tesla - The father of modern electronics and of the radio
• Osamu Tezuka - The father of manga and anime
• LaMarcus Adna Thompson - The father of the rollercoaster
• J. R. R. Tolkien - The father of the modern high fantasy genre
• Leon Trotsky - The father of the Red Army (army of the USSR)
• Andre Thi Truong - The father of the personal computer
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - The father of human spaceflight and of astronautics
• Charles Tupper - The father of Canadian Confederation
• Alan Turing - The father of computer science
• Rustom Jal Vakil - The father of Indian cardiology