List of people considered a founder in a Humanities field
Those known as the father, mother, or considered a founder in a Humanities field are those who have made important contributions to that field. In some fields several people are considered the founders, while in others the title of being the "father" is debatable. Some of the people who have humanity are given in REFERENCES.
Humanities fields
Arts
Communication
History
Justice
Language and literature
Law
Music
| Subject | Father / mother | Reason |
| American music | Stephen Foster | Recognized internationally for his compositions which are still being performed in various venues. His most notable works include Oh Susanna, Camptown Races and Old Folks at Home. |
| American piano manufacture | Jonas Chickering | |
| Blues | Ma Rainey | |
| Bluegrass music | Bill Monroe | |
| Chicago blues / electric blues | Muddy Waters | |
| Contemporary a cappella | Deke Sharon | |
| Country music | Jimmie Rodgers | |
| Death metal | Chuck Schuldiner | |
| Disco | Mel Cheren | |
| Disco | Giorgio Moroder | |
| English cathedral music | Thomas Tallis | |
| Funk | George Clinton | |
| Gospel music | Thomas A. Dorsey | |
| Gothic rock | Peter Murphy | |
| G-Funk | Dr. Dre | |
| Greek music | Terpander | |
| Grunge | Neil Young | |
| Heavy metal | Ozzy Osbourne/Tony Iommi | Both are also known as "godfathers of heavy metal". |
| Italo disco | Alexander Robotnick | |
| Punk rock | Patti Smith | |
| Jazz | Buddy Bolden Jelly Roll Morton Theodore August Metz | |
| Modern jazz piano | Earl "Fatha" Hines | |
| Reggae | Frederick "Toots" Hibbert | |
| Rock and roll | Chuck Berry | |
| Rock music in China | Cui Jian | |
| Soul music | James Brown | |
| Symphony and string quartet | Joseph Haydn | |
| Thrash metal | James Hetfield |
Performance art
Philosophy and religion
| Subject | Father / mother | Reason |
| Anarchism | Mikhail Bakunin Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | |
| Behaviorism | John B. Watson | |
| Comparative religion | Al-Biruni and Ibn Hazm | |
| Conservatism | Edmund Burke | |
| Cynicism | Diogenes of Sinope | |
| Epicureanism | Epicurus | |
| Epistemology | Xenophanes | |
| Existentialism | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| Feminism | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Faith missions | Anthony Norris Groves | |
| Humanism | Petrarch | |
| Islamic logic | Al-Farabi | |
| Liberalism | John Locke Baruch Spinoza | |
| Logical positivism | Moritz Schlick | |
| Methodism | John Wesley | |
| Moral philosophy | Thomas Aquinas | |
| Protestantism | Martin Luther | |
| Scholasticism | John Scotus Eriugena Lanfranc of Canterbury Anselm of Canterbury Peter Abelard | Book: Sic et Non |
| Scholasticism | Hugo Grotius | |
| Socialism | Karl Marx Robert Owen | |
| Thomism | Thomas Aquinas | |
| Zionism | Theodor Herzl |