Throughout history, some people have changed the way we understand things. We generally call them the fathers of that field. Candidates are requested to go through this list of fathers of various fields to prepare for General Knowledge in competitive exams.
List of Fathers of Various Fields
Below is the list of fathers of different fields that you can remember for General Knowledge Exams.
| Sl No | Field Name | Name |
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Fathers of Various Fields at World Level |
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| 1 | Economics | Adam Smith |
| 2 | Modern Computer | Alan Turing |
| 3 | Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| 4 | DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys |
| 5 | Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 6 | Comic Books | Stan Lee (Marvel Comics) / Anant Pai (Indian Comics) |
| 7 | Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| 8 | Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
| 9 | Microbiology/Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| 10 | Comedy | Aristophanes |
| 11 | Biology/Zoology/Embryology/Political Science | Aristotle |
| 12 | Sociology | Auguste Comte |
| 13 | Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| 14 | Paleobotany | Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart / Birbal Sahni (India) |
| 15 | Modern Biochemistry | Carl Alexander Neuberg |
| 16 | Classification/Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
| 17 | Computer | Charles Babbage |
| 18 | Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| 19 | Physiology | Claude Bernard |
| 20 | Modern Cinema | David Wark Griffith |
| 21 | Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
| 22 | Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 23 | Vaccination/Immunology | Edward Jenner |
| 24 | Biodiversity | Edward O Wilson |
| 25 | Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| 26 | Geography | Eratosthenes |
| 27 | Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| 28 | Geometry | Euclid |
| 29 | Modern Finance | Eugene F. Fama |
| 30 | Modern Ecology | Eugene P. Odum |
| 31 | Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
| 32 | Eugenics | Francis Galton |
| 33 | Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| 34 | Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
| 35 | Modern Physics | Galileo Galilei |
| 36 | English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 37 | Computer Science | George Boole / Alan Turing |
| 38 | Aviation | George Cayley |
| 39 | Railways | George Stephenson |
| 40 | Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| 41 | Homeopathy | Heinemann |
| 42 | History | Herodotus |
| 43 | Western Medicine/Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| 44 | Blue Revolution | Hiralal Chaudhari |
| 45 | Mutation theory | Hugo De Vries |
| 46 | Architecture | Imhotep |
| 47 | Classical Mechanics | Isaac Newton |
| 48 | Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 49 | Modern Geology | James Hutton |
| 50 | American Constitution | James Madison |
| 51 | Geography | James Rennell |
| 52 | Modern Education | John Amos Comenius |
| 53 | Modern Democracy | John Locke |
| 54 | Artificial Intelligence | John McCarthy |
| 55 | Robotics | Joseph F. Engelberger |
| 56 | Biotechnology | Karl Ereky |
| 57 | Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| 58 | Bacteriology | Louis Pasteur |
| 59 | Green Revolution | M. S. Swaminathan / Norman Borlaug (India) |
| 60 | Modern Economics | Paul Samuelson / M.G. Ranade (India) |
| 61 | Nuclear Science | Marie Curie / Pierre Curie |
| 62 | Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
| 63 | Quantum Mechanics | Max Planck |
| 64 | Electronics | Michael Faraday |
| 65 | Peasant Movement | N. G. Ranga (Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu) |
| 66 | Modern Political Science | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| 67 | Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 68 | Green Revolution/Agriculture | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| 69 | Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
| 70 | Sanskrit Grammar | Panini |
| 71 | Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
| 72 | Agronomy | Peter – De- Cresenji |
| 73 | Modern Management | Peter Georg Ferdinand Drucker |
| 74 | Television | Philo Farnsworth |
| 75 | Modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
| 76 | Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
| 77 | Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
| 78 | Numbers | Pythagoras |
| 79 | Ray Tomlinson | |
| 80 | Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
| 81 | Nanotechnology | Richard Smalley |
| 82 | Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| 83 | Thermodynamics | Sadi Carnot |
| 84 | New France | Samuel de Champlain |
| 85 | Psychology | Sigmund Freud |
| 86 | Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
| 87 | Civil Engineering | John Smeaton / Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (India) |
| 88 | Air Force | Subroto Mukerjee (IAF) |
| 89 | Surgery | Sushruta |
| 90 | Botany | Theophrastus |
| 91 | Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| 92 | White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
| 93 | Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
| 94 | Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
| 95 | Internet | Vint Cerf |
| 96 | American Football | Walter Chauncey Camp |
| 97 | Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
| 98 | Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
Father of Various Fields(India)
Below is the list of Fathers name in various field at India level.
| Sl No | Field | Name |
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| 1 | Air Force | Subroto Mukerjee |
| 2 | Blue Revolution | Dr. Arun Krishnan and Hiralal Chaudhari |
| 3 | Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke) |
| 4 | Civil Aviation | J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) |
| 5 | Civil Engineering | Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraiah |
| 6 | Comic Books | Anant Pai |
| 7 | Geography | James Rennell (1742-1830) |
| 8 | Gold Revolution | Nirpakh Tutaj |
| 9 | Green Revolution | M. S. Swaminathan (Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan) |
| 10 | Hindutva | Swatantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar |
| 11 | Hybrid Sorghum | Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao |
| 12 | Indian Navy | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj |
| 13 | Indian seeds industry | B. R. Barwale |
| 14 | Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
| 15 | Missile Program | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 16 | Modern Economics | Mahadev Govind Ranade |
| 17 | Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| 18 | Nation | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 19 | Nuclear/Atomic Program | Homi J. Bhabha |
| 20 | Paleobotany | Birbal Sahni |
| 21 | Peasant Movement | N. G. Ranga (Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu) |
| 22 | Pink Revolution | Durgesh Patel |
| 23 | Political Father of the Green Revolution | Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| 24 | Red Revolution | Vishal Tewari |
| 25 | Republic of India / Modern India | B. R. Ambedkar |
| 26 | Silver Revolution | Indira Gandhi |
| 27 | Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
| 28 | Surgery | Sushruta |
| 29 | Veterinary Science | Shalihotra |
| 30 | Wheat Revolution | Dilbagh Singh Athwal |
| 31 | White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
| 32 | Yellow Revolution | Sam Pitroda |
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Fathers of Various Fields – FAQs
Who is the father of GK in India?
Bhikaiji Rustom Cama is the father of GK in India.
Who is father of biology?
Aristotle is the father of biology.
Who is father of maths?
Archimedes is the father of math.
Who found zero?
Brahmagupta founded Zero.