Introduction
The article Father of Nations presents the list of Father or Founder of different countries across the World. This article plays a prominent role in GA/GK preparation in many competitive exams.
Countries
Below table contains the list of Father of Nations in alphabetical order.
| Country | Father/Founder |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Ahmad Shah Durrani |
| Albania | Skanderbeg |
| Argentina | José de San Martín |
| Australia | Sir Henry Parkes |
| Bahamas | Sir Lynden Pindling |
| Bangladesh | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| Belize | George Cadle Price |
| Bolivia | Simón Bolívar |
| Brazil | Dom Pedro I |
| José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva | |
| Brunei | Omar Ali Saifuddien III |
| Colombia | Simón Bolívar |
| Canada | Sir John A. Macdonald |
| Chile | Bernardo O'Higgins |
| China (Republic of) | Sun Yat-sen |
| Costa Rica | José María Castro Madriz |
| Croatia | Ante Starčević |
| Cuba | Carlos Manuel de Céspedes |
| Czech Republic | František Palacký |
| Dominican Republic | Juan Pablo Duarte |
| Ecuador | Simón Bolívar |
| Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah |
| Greece | Alexander the Great |
| Guyana | Cheddi Jagan |
| Haiti | Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
| Hungary | Árpád |
| India | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| Indonesia | Sukarno |
| Iran | Cyrus the Great |
| Israel | Abraham |
| Italy | Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia |
| Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta |
| Kosovo | Ibrahim Rugova |
| Lithuania | Jonas Basanavičius |
| Macedonia | Krste Misirkov |
| Malaysia | Tunku Abdul Rahman |
| Malta | Giorgio Borg Olivier |
| Mauritius | Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam |
| Mexico | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
| Myanmar | Aung San |
| Namibia | Sam Nujoma |
| Nepal | King Tribhuwan |
| Netherlands | William the Silent |
| Nigeria | Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| Norway | Einar Gerhardsen |
| Pakistan | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Papua New Guinea | Sir Michael Somare |
| Portugal | D. Afonso Henriques |
| Panama | Simón Bolívar |
| Peru | Simón Bolívar |
| Saint Lucia | Sir John Compton |
| Saudi Arabia | Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia |
| Serbia | Dobrica Cosic |
| Singapore | Lee Kuan Yew |
| Slovakia | Andrej Hlinka |
| Slovenia | Primož Trubar |
| Somalia | Mohammed Abdullah Hassan |
| South Africa | Nelson Mandela |
| Spain | Catholic Monarchs |
| Sri Lanka | Don Stephen Senanayake |
| Suriname | Johan Ferrier |
| Sweden | Gustav I of Sweden |
| Tanzania | Julius Nyerere |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Eric Williams |
| Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
| United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan |
| United States | George Washington |
| Uruguay | José Gervasio Artigas |
| Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh |
| Venezuela | Simón Bolívar |