| THOMASMUIR | - of Huntershill, reformer often called ' the father of Scottish democracy' (6,4) |
| MUDDY | --- Waters, American blues musician, often called the 'father of modern Chicago blues' (5) |
| INNESS | George ___, American painter often called "the father of American landscape painting" |
| OSLER | Sir William ___, physician often called the father of modern medicine |
| OCEANLINER | RMS Queen Mary 2 is often called the world's last ____ |
| DONQUIXOTE | Book which is often called the first modern novel |
| EUCLID | Ancient Greek writer of the Elements treatise, called the 'father of geometry' (6) |
| HAYDN | Mozart contemporary called the "Father of the Symphony" |
| ALAIN | Locke who was called "The Father of the Harlem Renaissance" |
| SALK | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| STEINER | Composer Max who was called "the father of film music" |
| GALILEI | Galileo _, Italian mathematician called the father of science (7) |
| BEDE | Theologian called "The Father of English History" |
| LOUIS | Pasteur sometimes called "the father of microbiology" |
| SAMUELDECHAMPLAIN | Explorer called 'The Father of New France': 3 wds. |
| PLIMMER | John ___: English settler who was called 'the father of Wellington' (7) |
| WATTS | Isaac ---, prolific hymn writer and theologian sometimes called the Father of English Hymnody (5) |
| NILE | It is called the father of African rivers (4) |
| STBEDE | Seventh/eighth-century Anglo-Saxon theologian, sometimes called the "Father of English History" (2,4) |
| JENNER | First to explain a cuckoo's nesting habits, later called the father of immunology (6) |
