* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

* James " Father Jimmy " Tompkins, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Though the Virginia Plan was an outline rather than a draft of a possible constitution, and though it was extensively changed during the debate ( especially by John Rutledge and James Wilson in the Committee of Detail ), its use at the convention led many to call Madison the " Father of the Constitution ".

* Unger, Harlow G .. " The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness " ( 2009 ), a new biography.

* James Madison: American politician and protege of Jefferson considered to be “ Father of the Constitution ” and “ Father of the Bill of Rights ” of the United States.

St. John Fisher College was founded as a men's college in 1948 by the Basilian Fathers and with the aid of Father James E. Kearney, then the Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester.

** " Father Christmas " is a main character of the Christmas masque written by Ben Jonson and presented at the court of King James I of England.

In 1831, the Scotsman James Busby, often called " the Father of Australian viticulture ", made a trip back to Europe to collect cuttings from vines ( primarily from France and Spain ) for introduction to Australia.

Desiring good weather for his advance, which would permit close ground support by USAAF tactical aircraft, Patton ordered the Third Army chaplain, Colonel James O ' Neill, to compose a suitable prayer: " Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.

James Madison, Hamilton's major collaborator, later President of the United States and " Father of the Constitution "

Up to the time that James succeeded to the crown of England, Father Abercromby remained at the Scottish court, celebrating Mass in secret, and giving Holy Communion nine or ten times to his neophyte.

A series of correspondence between Kilmer and Father James J. Daly led the Kilmers to convert to Roman Catholicism and they were received in the church in 1913.

The show was created by James Komack who produced other successful TV shows such as The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Welcome Back, Kotter.

* " Abba ( Father )", a song by Christian pop and rock artist, Rebecca St. James

* James Fitzsimons ( as James Lilburn ) as Father Paul

Prominent temperance leaders in the United States included Bishop James Cannon, Jr., James Black, Ernest Cherrington, Neal S. Dow, Mary Hunt, William E. Johnson ( known as " Pussyfoot " Johnson ), Carrie Nation, Howard Hyde Russell, John St. John, Billy Sunday, Father Mathew, Andrew Volstead and Wayne Wheeler.

* Opus Dei in the United States – by Father James Martin, S. J.

Named after Father James P. O ' Kean of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, O ' Kean was located around the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

The city was founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, " The Father of Naval Aviation ", and James Bright, during the famous " land boom " of the 1920s and was originally named Country Club Estates.

* Father James Forbes ( 1964 – 1979 ) OSB ( famed pottery expert and Knight of Malta )

This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John passage “ You heard me say, ‘ I am going away and I am coming back to you .’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

This follows from the verse in John 6: 44, " No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.

In John 14: 31 Jesus explains that his sacrifice was performed so: " that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

This was Eddy's understanding of Jesus ' saying: " He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father " ( John 14: 12 ).

* Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Father John Pawlikowski from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

In 1897 Father John Gerard of Stonyhurst College, namesake of John Gerard ( who, following the plot's discovery, had evaded capture ), wrote an account called What was the Gunpowder Plot ?, alleging Salisbury's culpability.

John Locke FRS (; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704 ), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.

John Chrysostom ( c. 347 – 407, ), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father.

* 1928 – Father John S. Romanides, Greek priest and professor ( d. 2001 )

However, the Founding Father who perhaps most studied and valued Machiavelli as a political philosopher was John Adams, who profusely commented on the Italian's thought in his work, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.

* 1789 – Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

In the poem A Hymn to God the Father, John Donne, married to Anne More, reportedly puns repeatedly: " Son / sun " in the second quoted line, and two compound puns on " Donne / done " and " More / more ".

For instance, the Catholic priest Father John A. Hardon insists that " Christianity is not mythology.

Of those who took part in the council's opening session, four have become pontiffs to date: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, who on succeeding Pope John XXIII took the name of Paul VI ; Bishop Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I ; Bishop Karol Wojtyła, who became Pope John Paul II ; and Father Joseph Ratzinger, present as a theological consultant, who became Pope Benedict XVI.

The Rainbow Affair is notable for its thinly disguised cameo appearances by The Saint, Miss Marple, John Steed, Emma Peel, Tommy Hambledon ( at whose flat Solo and Ilya encounter Steed and Peel ), Neddie Seagoon, Father Brown, a retired, elderly Sherlock Holmes, and Dr. Fu Manchu.

On March 12 & 13, 1993, Al Kooper organized two shows at the Bottom Line in NYC that were advertised as " A Silver Anniversary Celebration Of The Classic Album The Child Is Father To The Man ", which featured Al, Randy Brecker, Jim Fielder, Steve Katz and Fred Lipsius playing together for the first time in twenty five years, accompanied by Anton Fig, Tom Malone, Lew Soloff, John Simon and Jimmy Vivino, as well as a two woman chorus and string section.

The play adaptation of Life With Father was made into a film in 1947, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring William Powell and Irene Dunne as Clarence and his wife, supported by Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon and Martin Milner.

The films starred Jimmy Lydon as Skeezix, known at that time for Life with Father ( 1947 ) and his earlier character of Henry Aldrich.

Live ( Father of Rock and Roll Music ) with Jimmy Vivino and Al Kooper

In June 2009 he played Father Jimmy, the ineffective exorcist in the independent horror comedy The Selling, written by Gabriel Diani and directed by Emily Lou.

*" Homage to Mr. Jimmy " in Gods and Monsters ( new edition of Father of Frankenstein ), 2005

Ben Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of the vampires, whose numbers increase as the new vampires infect their own families and others.

The troubles of the 1920s disrupted the playing of league games and it was not until 1924 that Tommy Maguire, Jimmy Thompson and Father Lappin made efforts to get the game going again.

Known examples of successful write-in candidates include Kenneth A. Garrison and Father Segundo Llorente ( 1960 ), Frank R. Ferguson ( 1972 ), James H. " Jimmy " Huntington ( 1974 ) and Nels A. Anderson, Jr. ( 1976 ).

Father Jimmy Tompkins helped to pioneer this concept at Tompkinsville at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

* Father Jimmy Tompkins " Knowledge for the People -- a Call to St. Francis Xavier College " 1921

These include Becker, Carpoolers, Comedy Central Presents, Committed, Desperate Housewives, Dinner for Five, Father of the Pride, Grounded for Life, Hot Properties, I Love the ' 70s, I'm with Her, In Plain Sight, Jimmy Kimmel Live !, Joey, Just Shoot Me !, L. A. Blues, Las Vegas, Less Than Kind, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Lovespring International, MADtv, Mr. Show, Odd Job Jack, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, Sketch Pad, South Park, Testing Bob, The King of Queens, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Prodigious Hickey, Stargate Atlantis, The Tick, Tom Goes to the Mayor, What's Up Peter Fuddy ?, What's New, Scooby-Doo ?, Brothers & Sisters, Will & Grace, Hot in Cleveland, True Jackson VP, Eureka and Leverage.

Two boys, Blackie Gallagher ( Mickey Rooney ) and Jim Wade ( Jimmy Butler ), are rescued by priest Father Joe ( Leo Carrillo ), but are orphaned by the disaster.

Dr. Moses Coady and Father Jimmy Tompkins.

The last sign was the killing of an innocent soul, a mentally retarded man named Jimmy, framed for a murder and condenmed to be executed through electric chair, Abby, even that she begans to have her child, runs to the place where the execution will be made, but after a skirmish with Father Lucci, David and the guards of the place some shots are done, Abby tries to cover the man to avoid being killed and took a bullet but she is unable to save the man from dying.

Father Lucci, who screamed in pain to shoot Abby, Jimmy and the guards, was arrested, and later killed in the end.

Father James ( Jimmy ) Tompkins and Dr. Moses Coady were key organizers in Nova Scotia of the first building co-operatives.

Father of Dustin and Britton Colquitt, and uncle of Jimmy Colquitt ( see below ).

Higgs has also been described as the " Father of Reggae " by Jimmy Cliff.

* Jim Lotz and Michael R. Welton, Father Jimmy: Life and Times of Father Jimmy Tompkins ( 1997 ), ISBN 1-895415-23-3