| GALILEI | Galileo _, Italian mathematician called the father of science (7) |
| CARDANO | Girolamo ___, Italian mathematician who first published the solution to the general cubic equation |
| EUCLID | Greek mathematician called the "Father of Geometry" |
| IBN | ___ al-Haytham, medieval mathematician called "the father of modern optics" |
| FIBONACCI | Leonardo ___, Italian mathematician who popularised the decimal system in Europe |
| CAVALIERI | Bonaventura ___, Italian mathematician whose principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus (9) |
| PLIMMER | John ___: English settler who was called 'the father of Wellington' (7) |
| STEINER | Composer Max who was called "the father of film music" |
| WELLS | He's been called the "Father of Science Fiction" |
| GALILEO | Italian mathematician and astronomer who perfected the refracting telescope (7) |
| VERNE | French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905). |
| JULESVERNE | "The Father of Science Fiction" |
| HAYDN | Mozart contemporary called the "Father of the Symphony" |
| GALILEOGALILEI | *Whom Albert Einstein called the father of modern science |
| THOMASMUIR | - of Huntershill, reformer often called ' the father of Scottish democracy' (6,4) |
| ALAIN | Locke who was called "The Father of the Harlem Renaissance" |
| PETRARCH | 14th-century Italian scholar and poet called the "Father of Humanism" |
| SALK | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| MUDDY | --- Waters, American blues musician, often called the 'father of modern Chicago blues' (5) |
| BEDE | Theologian called "The Father of English History" |
