- The persons who have started certain trend of doing something in different particular field are known as father of that field. They are initiators of something new.
- List of people considered father or mother of a field.
- List of some such persons:
- Father of Medicine - Hippocrates
- Father of History - Herodotus
- Father of Computer - Charles Babbage
- Father of Electricity - Michael Faraday
- Father of English Poetry - Geoffrey Chaucer
- Father of Chemistry - Robert Boyle
- Father of Science - Sir Issac Newton
- Father of Red Army - Chu Teha
- Father of Economics - Adam Smith
- Father of Population - Louis Pasteur
