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Father is the male parent of a child.

Father may also refer to:

Name

• Daniel Fathers (born 1966), a British actor
• Father Yod (1922–1975), an American owner of one of the country's first health food restaurants

Cinema

• Father (1966 film), a Hungarian film directed by István Szábo
• Father (1990 film), an Australian film directed by John Power
• Father (2000 film), a Chinese film directed by Wang Shuo
• Father (2011 film), a French film directed by Pasquale Squitieri
• Father (2020 film), a Serbian film directed by Srdan Golubović
• Fathers (film), a 2020 Cambodian film
• The Father (1979 film), a Bengali film by Kazi Hayat
• The Father (1996 film), an Iranian feature film by Majid Majidi
• The Father (2015 film), a Syrian drama film
• The Father (2019 film), a Bulgarian film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
• The Father (2020 film), a British film directed by French playwright Florian Zeller

Literature and theatre

• "The Father," a short story by Raymond Carver from his collection Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
• The Father (Dunlap play), a 1789 play by William Dunlap
• The Father (Strindberg play), an 1887 play by Swedish playwright August Strindberg
• The Father (Osborne play), a 1989 play by English playwright John Osborne
• The Father (Zeller play), a 2012 play by French playwright Florian Zeller
• The Fathers (novel), a 1938 novel by Allen Tate
• Fathers (book), a collection of 49 personal father essays and poems
• Father (Fullmetal Alchemist), the main antagonist of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga and 2009 anime

Music

Society

• Father (honorific)

Religion

• God the Father, in many religions, the supreme God given the title and attributions of a father
• Holy Father (disambiguation)
• Father, style (manner of address) for a clergyman, especially a priest
• Church Fathers, early and influential theologians, eminent Christian teachers and great bishops

Places

• Father Lake (Doda Lake tributary), a waterbody in Québec, Canada`

See also

• Father of the Nation
• Father Time, a personification of time
• List of people considered father or mother of a field
• Name of the Father, which relates to the psychoanalytic concept of the Father