"Fathers and Mothers" of...Stuff

[SlowwHand]

I've been doing some research on Blues music.
I wanted to find out who was credited with different styles of Blues.
So far, I've come up with the following, and its substantiated by numerous sources.
A good Blues site, btw.

http://www.pbs.org/theblues/songsartists/songsbioalpha.html

Father of The Blues - William Christopher (W.C.) Handy
Father of Texas Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Father of British Blues - John Mayall
Father of Delta Blues - Son House
Father of Chicago Blues - Muddy Waters

Anyway, in researching, I found this list of "Fathers and Mothers" of various things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

A
Philip Abelson - The father of the nuclear submarine
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - The father of Danish painting
Abu is an Arabic word meaning "father" that is used to form person names from either the name of a son or a concept to form a nickname, such as Abu Amar (Yasser Arafat)
Jane Addams - The mother of Social Work (called "The mother of the world")
George Agricola - The father of Mineralogy
Mikael Agricola - The father of Finnish written language
Eloy Alfaro - The father of Ecuadorian liberalism
Steve Allen - The father of the television talk show
Eric Allman - The father of modern Internet e-mail
Susan B. Anthony - "The Mother of Us All" (title of Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera)
Sabino Arana - The father of modern Basque nationalism
Peter Artedi - The father of ichthyology
Philip Astley - The father of the modern circus
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The father of modern Turkey
Stephen F. Austin - The father of Texas
Cyrus Avery - The father of Route 66
Ismail Al Azhary - The father of Modern Sudan
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B
Charles Babbage - The father of the computer / computing
Stephen Moulton Babcock - The father of scientific dairying
Johann Sebastian Bach - The father of music
Leo Baekeland - The father of plastic
Mikhail Bakunin - The father of anarchism
George Bancroft - The father of American History
José Celso Barbosa - The father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement
Aaron T. Beck - The father of Cognitive therapy
Alexander Graham Bell - The father of the telephone
Edward Bernays - The father of public relations - aka the father of spin
Tim Berners-Lee - The father of the world wide web
Rómulo Betancourt - The father of Venezuelan democracy
Lorenz Böehler - The father of bone surgery.
Ben Botkin - The father of public folklore
William Bradford - The father of American History
Tycho Brahe - The father of modern astronomy
Richard Bright - The father of nephrology
Milton Brown - The father of Western swing
James Busby - The father of the Australian wine industry
Nolan Bushnell - The father of computer entertainment / electronic gaming
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C
Santiago Ramón y Cajal - The father of Neuroscience
John Calvin - The father of Protestantism
Raymond Carhart - The father of audiology
John Cassavetes - The father of American independent film-making
Román Baldorioty de Castro - The father of Puerto Rico's Autonomy movement
Vinton G. Cerf - The father of the Internet
Boris Chicherin - The father of Russian liberalism
Jesus Colon - The father of the Nuyorican Movement
Alan Cooper - The father of Visual Basic
Nicolaus Copernicus - The father of modern astronomy
W. L. Creech - The father of the Thunderbirds
Hubert Critchlow - The father of the Guyanese labor movement
Frank W. Cyr - father of the yellow school bus
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D
J.B. Danquah - The father of the political opposition of Ghana
John Nelson Darby - The father of dispensationalism
Nicéphore Niépce & Louis Daguerre - The fathers of the photograph
John Dalton - The father of chemistry
Charles Darwin - The father of evolutionary biology
William Morris Davis - The father of American geography
Guy de Chauliac - The father of modern surgery and hospitals
Lee De Forest - The father of radio
Democritus - The father of atomic theory
René Descartes - The father of modern philosophy
Friedrich Diercks - The father of immigrants
Diophantus - The father of Algebra
Walt Disney - The father of the animation industry
Vasily Dokuchaev - The father of soil science
Tommy Douglas - A, or the, father of medicare in Canada
Alberto Santos-Dumont - The father of aviation
Allen B. Dumont - The father of modern TV
Isadora Duncan - The mother of modern dance
John Boyd Dunlop - The father of the modern tire
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E
Albert Einstein - The father of Relativity, the godfather of Quantum Mechanics, the father of modern physics
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The father of Transcendentalism
Quintus Ennius - The father of Latin poetry
Brian Eno - The father of ambient music
William Phelps Eno - The father of traffic safety
Robert Ettinger - The father of cryonics
Leonhard Euler - The father of fluid mechanics
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F
Luis A. Ferré - The father of the Puerto Rican autonomy movement
Reginald Fessenden - The father of radio broadcasting
Alexander Fleming - The father of modern antibiotics
Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens - The father of brain physiology
Gottlob Frege - The father of modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy
Sigmund Freud - The father of psychoanalysis
Henry M. Morris - The father of the "creation science" movement
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G
Galileo Galilei - The father of modern astronomy and of the scientific method of modern science
Gandhi - The father of the nation of India and of non-violence
Lillian Moller Gilbreth - The mother of modern management
Henry Gilman - The father of organometallic chemistry
Giotto - The father of Renaissance art
Robert Goddard - The father of modern rocketry
Maxim Gorky - The father of Soviet literature
James Gosling - The father of the Java programming language
Ben Graham - The father of modern financial analysis
Thomas Graham - The father of colloid chemistry
David Wark Griffith - The father of modern film and film grammar
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H
Fritz Haber - The father of chemical warfare
Emmett Matthew Hall - A father of medicare in Canada
WC Handy - The father of the blues
Ben Harney - The father of ragtime
Joseph Haydn - The father of the symphony
Abram Stevens Hewitt - the father of the New York City Subway
Jim Henson - The father of the Muppets
Herodotus - The father of history
Herophilus - The father of anatomy
William Herschel - The father of modern astronomy
Theodor Herzl - The father of modern secular Zionism
Hippocrates - The father of medicine
Reimar Horten - The father of aircraft stealth technology, aka the father of the flying wing
Robert E. Horton - The father of modern hydrology
James Hutton - The father of modern geology
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I
Art Ingels - The father of karting
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J
Abraham Jacobi - The father of U.S. pediatrics
Fredrick Jahn - The father of gymnastics
Bill James - The father of modern baseball statistical study and sabermetrics
Thomas Jefferson - The father of archaeology, the father of the University of Virginia
Edward H. Johnson - The father of Electric Christmas tree lights
Phillip E. Johnson - The father of intelligent design creationism
Mary Harris Jones or Mother Jones - The "Grandmother of All Agitators".
Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Father of the Nation of Pakistan
Fatima Jinnah - Mother of the Nation of Pakistan
Theodore Judah - The father of the U.S. first Transcontinental Railroad
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K
Karađorđe - The father of modern Serbia
Wassily Kandinsky - The father of abstract art
Nikolai Karamzin - The father of Russian conservatism
Johannes Kepler - The father of modern astronomy
Søren Kierkegaard - The father of existentialism
William Kirby - The father of entomology
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook - The father of religious Zionism
Lajos Kossuth - The father of Hungarian democracy
Boris Kurakin - The father of Russian diplomacy
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L
Jack LaLanne - The father of fitness
Antoine Lavoisier - The father of modern chemistry
John Lennard-Jones - The father of modern computational chemistry
Carolus Linnaeus - The father of taxonomy
Lucien Lison - The father of histochemistry
Joseph Lister - The father of modern antisepsis
Raymond Loewy - The father of industrial design
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long - The mother of Texas
Professor Longhair - The father of New Orleans rhythm and blues and funk
Martin Luther - The father of Protestantism and of Lutheranism
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M
Bernarr Macfadden - The father of physical culture
Niccolò Machiavelli - The father of modern political theory and of pragmatism
James Madison - The father of the United States Constitution
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - The mother of South Africa
Marcello Malpighi - The father of microscopic anatomy
Thomas Malthus - The father of social science
Herbert Marcuse - The father of the New Left
Paul Martin Sr. - A father of medicare in Canada
Hideto Matsumoto - The father of J-Rock
Karl Marx - The father of modern Communism
George Mason - The father of the United States Bill of Rights
John McLoughlin - The father of Oregon
George E. McNeill - The father of the eight-hour work day (in the U.S.)
Gregor Mendel - The father of genetics
Antonio Meucci - The official father of the telephone
Spike Milligan - The father of modern British comedy and of Monty Python
Billy Mitchell - The father of United States Air Force
Bill Monroe - The father of bluegrass music
Claudio Monteverdi - The father of opera
Robert Moon - The father of the ZIP code
E. C. Morley - The father of The Football Association
Muddy Waters - The father of Chicago blues
Johannes Peter Muller - The father of modern physiology
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N
Antonin Nechodoma - the father of Puerto Rican architecture
Gaylord Nelson - the father of Earth Day [1]
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 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
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O
Hermann Oberth - The father of space flight and of modern rocketry
J. Robert Oppenheimer - The father of the atomic bomb
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P
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
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Q
Manuel L. Quezon - The father of the Filipino language
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R
Alexander Radishchev - The father of Russian radicalism
Vasily Radlov - The father of Turcology
Ma Rainey - The mother of the blues
Damrong Rajanubhab - The father of the history of Thailand
S. R. Ranganathan - The father of library science in India
Jef Raskin - The father of the Apple Macintosh
Joe Redington, Sr. - the father of the Iditarod
Regiomontanus - The father of modern astronomy
Mikołaj Rej - The father of Polish literature
Hyman G. Rickover The father of the United States Nuclear Navy
Louis Riel - The father of Manitoba
Jimmie Rodgers - The father of country music
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The father of Romantic sensibility, of the French Revolution
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S
Peter Safar - The father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Paul Sandby - The father of English watercolor painting
Ferdinand de Saussure - The father of modern linguistics
JunÃpero 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
John Smeaton - The father of Civil Engeneering
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
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T
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
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V
Edgard Varèse - The father of electronic music
Vladimir Vernadsky - The father of geochemistry
Andreas Vesalius - The father of anatomy
Carl Vinson - The father of the two-ocean navy of the United States Navy
Fyodor Volkov - The father of Russian theatre
Faust Vrančić - The father of the parachute
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W
John Wanamaker - The father of the U.S. department store
George Washington - The father of the United States of America
Alice Waters - The mother of California cuisine and of American cooking
John B. Watson - The father of behaviorism
Isaac Watts - The father of English Hymnody
Arthur Gordon Webster - The father of the American Physical Society
Alfred Wegener - The father of plate tectonics / continental drift
Norbert Wiener - The father of cybernetics
Woodrow Wilson - The father of the League of Nations and of Internationalism
Johann Winckelmann - The father of modern archaeology
Sergius Witte - The grandfather of Russian industry
Wright brothers - The fathers of aviation
Wilhelm Wundt - The father of modern psychology
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X
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Y
Gazi Yaşargil - The father of micro-neurosurgery
Rouzbeh Yassini - The father of the cable modem
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda - The father of the modern Hebrew
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Z
Yevgeny Zamyatin - The father of dystopian literature
Zeno of Citium - The Father of Stoicism

[Jon Miller]

Bohr should be in there

[JohnT]

They forgot:

God, the Father

RobertT, father of John

Being able to name a "father" of your country's "industry" is pretty lame.

[SlowwHand]

How do you figure?

[Sava]

they forgot:


Sava, father of PWNAGE!!!

[duke o' york]

[edited for taste]

[Zkribbler]

Hmmm, no listing for the Mamas and the Papas.

All the leaves are gone
And the sky is grey.
I've been for a walk
On a winter's day.

I'd be safe and warm
If I was in L.A.
California dreamin'
On a such winter's day.