List of individuals designated "father" of their country
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List of individuals designated "father" of their country:
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - The father of modern Turkey
- David Ben-Gurion - The father of the modern State of Israel
- Gandhi - The father of the country of India and of non-violence
- Theodor Herzl - The father of modern secular Zionism
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah - The father of Pakistan
- Karađorđe - The father of modern Serbia
- Lajos Kossuth - The father of Hungarian democracy
- Mao Zedong - The father of New China
- Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) - The father of modern China and the Chinese revolution ending the Qing Dynasty
- George Washington - The father of the United States of America
- Saparmurat Niyazov - The self-proclaimed leader/father of Turkmenistan
[edit] Women designated as the "mother" of their country
- Fatima Jinnah - Mother of the Nation of Pakistan
[edit] Other
Individuals designated "father" of their political entity, which is not, or is no longer, an independent country
- Stephen F. Austin - The father of Texas
- Louis Riel - The father of Manitoba
