The Static GK part of the Competitive Exams is vast and questions from any field may be asked in this section. The list List of People considered Father of various fields is also an important topic with respect to the General Awareness section.
Given below is the List of People considered Father of various fields :
| Fathers of Different Fields | Names |
|---|---|
| Father of Agronomy | Peter – De- Cresenji |
| Father of Air Force | Subroto Mukerjee (IAF) |
| Father of Algology in India | Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar |
| Father of allopathy | Samuel Hahnemann |
| Father of Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
| Father of Architecture | Imhotep |
| Father of Atom Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Father of Aviation | George Cayley |
| Father of Ayurveda | Dhanwantari |
| Father of Bacteriology | Louis Pasteur |
| Father of Biodiversity | Edward O Wilson |
| Father of Biology/ Zoology/ Embryology/ Political Science | Aristotle |
| Father of Biotechnology | Karl Ereky |
| Father of Blood Circulation | William Harvey |
| Father of Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| Father of Blue Revolution | Hiralal Chaudhari |
| Father of Botany | Theophrastus |
| Father of Cinema | Dadasaheb Phalke (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke) (India) |
| Father of Civil Aviation | J. R. D. Tata (Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata) |
| Father of Civil Engineering | John Smeaton Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (India) |
| Father of Classical mechanics | Isaac Newton |
| Father of Classification/ Father of Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus |
| Father of Comedy | Aristophanes |
| Father of Comic Books | Stan Lee (Father of Marvel Comics) Anant Pai (Father of Indian Comics) |
| Father of Computer | Charles Babbage |
| Father of Cytology | Robert Hooke |
| Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys Lalji Singh (India) |
| Father of Economics | Adam Smith |
| Father of Electronics | Michael Faraday |
| Father of Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| Father of Email | Ray Tomlinson |
| Father of Endocrinology | Thomas Addison |
| Father of English Poetry | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Father of Eugenics | Francis Galton |
| Father of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| Father of Genetic Engineering | Paul Berg |
| Father of Green Revolution | M. S. Swaminathan (Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan) (India) Normal Borlaug |
| Father of Geography | James Rennell |
| Father of Genetics | Gregor Mendel |
| Father of Gene Therapy | French Anderson |
| Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| Father of Geography | Eratosthenes |
| Father of Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| Father of Humanism | Francesco Petrarca |
| Father of Homeopathy | Heinemann |
| Father of History | Herodotus |
| Father of Indian Ecology | Ramdeo Mishra |
| Father of Indian Phycology/ Father of Algology in India | M. O. P. Iyengar (Mandayam Osuri Parthasarathy Iyengar) |
| Father of Linguistic Democracy | Potti Sreeramulu |
| Father of Modern India | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Father of Modern Dentistry | Pierre Fauchard |
| Father of Modern Olympic | Pierre De Coubertin |
| Father of Modern Management | Peter Georg Ferdinand Drucker |
| Father of Modern Astronomy | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Father of Modern Political science | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Father of Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
| Father of Modern Economic Reforms (India) | Manmohan Singh |
| Father of Modern Economics | Paul Samuelson M.G.Ranade (Mahadev Govind Ranade) (Father of Indian Economics) |
| Father of Modern Democracy | John Locke |
| Father of Modern Education | John Amos Comenius |
| Father of Modern Geology | James Hutton |
| Father of Mutation theory | Hugo De Vries |
| Father of Modern Ecology | Eugene P. Odum |
| Father of Modern Finance | Eugene F. Fama |
| Father of Modern Cinema | David Wark Griffith |
| Father of Modern Biochemistry | Carl Alexander Neuberg |
| Father of Microbiology/Microscopy | Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek |
| Father of Modern Chemistry | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Father of Modern Computer | Alan Turing |
| Father of Missile Program | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam) |
| Father of Nuclear Physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| Father of Nuclear (Indian Nuclear science)/Atomic Program | Homi J.Bhabha |
| Father of Nuclear Science | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
| Father of Nuclear Chemistry | Otto Hahn |
| Father of Numbers | Pythagoras |
| Father of Nanotechnology | Richard Smalley |
| Father of Paleobotany | Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart Birbal Sahni (India) |
| Father of Physiology | Claude Bernard |
| Father of Philosophy | Rene Descartes |
| Father of Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Father of Pentium Chip | Vinod Dham |
| Father of Plastic Surgery | Sir Harold Gillies |
| Father of Quantum mechanics | Max Planck |
| Father of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| Father of Railways | George Stephenson |
| Father of Radio Science in India | J C Bose |
| Father of Robotics | Joseph F. Engelberger |
| Father of Space Program | Vikram Sarabhai |
| Father of Surgery | Sushruta |
| Father of Sanstrik Grammar | Panini |
| Father of Scientific Management | Frederick Winslow Taylor |
| Father of Sociology | Auguste Comte |
| Father of Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Father of the Indian Constitution | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar) |
| Father of the American Constitution | James Madison |
| Father of the Nation (India) | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Father of the Green Revolution/Father of Agriculture | Norman Ernest Borlaug |
| Father of Television | Philo Farnsworth |
| Father of Thermodynamics | Sadi Carnot |
| Father of Vaccination/ Father of immunology | Edward Jenner |
| Father of Veterinary Science | Shalihotra (India) |
| Father of Western Medicine/Modern Medicine | Hippocrates |
| Father of White Revolution | Verghese Kurien |
