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Father of the Nation
Father of the Nation is an honorific for a nation's founder or independence leader, from the Roman pater patriae through Washington, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Gandhi, and Bangladesh's Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also used by authoritarian rulers.
Father of the Pride
Father of the Pride is a 2004 NBC computer-animated sitcom by DreamWorks and Hong Kong's Imagi about the white lions in Siegfried & Roy's Las Vegas act; it premiered August 31, 2004, cost about $1.6-2 million per episode, and was cancelled after 13 episodes.
Father of the Year (film)
Father of the Year is a 2018 Netflix comedy directed by Tyler Spindel, starring David Spade, Nat Faxon, and Joey Bragg, about two grads whose dads take a fight debate seriously; a Happy Madison film with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Father Sergius
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy about Prince Stepan Kasatsky, a young officer who enters a monastery; it appeared posthumously in 1911.
Father Stretch My Hands
Father Stretch My Hands is a two-part Kanye West song from the 2016 album The Life of Pablo, built on a Pastor T.L. Barrett gospel sample.
Father Stu
Father Stu is a 2022 American biographical drama directed by Rosalind Ross, starring Mark Wahlberg as Stuart Long, a Montana boxer who became a Catholic priest.
Father Ted
Father Ted is a Channel 4 sitcom (1995-1998) by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, produced by Hat Trick Productions, about three priests exiled to the fictional Craggy Island, starring Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, and Pauline McLynn; a BAFTA-winning classic ranked second among British sitcoms in a 2019 Radio Times poll.
Father Time
Father Time is the Western personification of time, an old bearded man with scythe, hourglass, and wings, born of the conflation of Greek Chronos with the Titan Kronos (Saturn) and fixed in Renaissance and Baroque art.
Father's Day
Father's Day honors fathers; in the US it falls on the third Sunday in June, founded by Sonora Smart Dodd in Spokane in 1910 and made permanent by Nixon in 1972. Other countries use March 19, November, or September dates.
Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend (1951) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM comedy sequel to Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor returning as Stanley Banks faces becoming a grandfather.
Fatherhood (film)
Fatherhood (2021) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Paul Weitz, starring Kevin Hart as widower Matt Logelin, based on the memoir Two Kisses for Maddy; released June 18, 2021, produced with Higher Ground.
Fatherland (2026 film)
Fatherland (Ojczyzna) is Paweł Pawlikowski's 2026 black-and-white drama about Thomas Mann's 1949 return from US exile to divided Germany with daughter Erika; Cannes Best Director winner, Poland's Oscar submission.
Fatherland (novel)
Fatherland (1992) is Robert Harris's alternate-history thriller, his first novel, set in a 1964 Berlin where Nazi Germany won WWII; Kripo detective Xavier March uncovers a Holocaust coverup as the US seeks détente.
Fathermoh
Fathermoh is the stage name of Moses Otieno Ojwang, a Kenyan gengetone singer-songwriter from Nairobi, formerly of Mbuzi Gang, known for the hits Shamra Shamra and Kaskie Vibaya.
Fathers & Sons (Luke Combs album)
Fathers & Sons, the fifth studio album by American country music singer Luke Combs, is a concept record released June 14, 2024, exploring his relationship with his sons and father.
Fathers and Daughters
Fathers and Daughters (Padri e Figlie), 2015 drama by Gabriele Muccino starring Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried; a widowed Pulitzer-winning novelist raises his daughter as the film alternates timelines; 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети) (novel)
Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети, Fathers and Children), Turgenev's 1862 novel in 28 chapters about the nihilist Bazarov and the generational conflict on the eve of the Emancipation of the Serfs.
Fathi Ghanim
Fathi Ghanim, also romanized Fathy Ghanem, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist (1924–1999), best known for his four-voice 1961 novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow.
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد)
Fathia Nuri Khalid (فتحية نوري خالد; also Fatiha al-Nuri) was a Libyan schoolteacher, first wife of Muammar Gaddafi (married 1969, divorced 1970), daughter of Brigadier Nuri Khalid, and mother of his eldest son Muhammad.
Fathima Beevi
Fathima Beevi (1927–2023), Kerala jurist, first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India (appointed 6 October 1989), first Muslim woman in any higher judiciary, and first woman Supreme Court justice in Asia; later NHRC member and Governor of Tamil Nadu 1997–2001.
Fathima Thahiliya
Fathima Thahiliya, IUML politician and advocate, is the Indian Union Muslim League's first woman MLA, winning Perambra (Kozhikode) in the 2026 Kerala election by defeating LDF convener T P Ramakrishnan; former first Haritha state president.
Fathom
A fathom is a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8288 meters), used chiefly to measure the depth of water, from the Old English word for outstretched arms.
Fathom Digital Manufacturing
Fathom Digital Manufacturing is an on-demand digital manufacturing company headquartered in Hartland, Wisconsin, offering 3D printing, CNC machining, injection molding, and sheet metal fabrication; it was taken private by CORE Industrial Partners in 2024.
Fathullah Shirazi
Fathullah Shirazi (فتح اللہ شیرازی) was a Persian polymath and administrator who served Sultan Ali Adil Shah I of Bijapur and then Akbar, dying in 1589.
Fatigue
Fatigue: lack of energy and reduced physical or mental capacity, distinct from sleepiness (tendency to fall asleep). Classified as secondary, physiologic, or chronic; measured mainly by rating scales; treated with exercise, sleep hygiene, and cause-directed care.
Fatigue (material)
Metal fatigue is progressive structural damage in a material from repeated loading and unloading, typically at stresses below its ultimate strength, causing failure over many cycles.
Fatigue analysis
Fatigue analysis is the engineering assessment of how a component fails under repeated loading at stresses well below its static strength, and how many cycles it survives.
Fatigue detection system
A fatigue detection system, or driver drowsiness and attention warning (DDAW) system, assesses driver alertness from vehicle data, cameras, or physiological signals and warns the driver.
Fatigue fracture of vertebra
Fatigue fracture of vertebra (ICD-11 FA72.3) is a stress fracture of spinal bone from repetitive submaximal load on normal bone, chiefly affecting the pars interarticularis, pedicle, and sacrum in athletes; distinct from osteoporotic insufficiency fractures.
Fatigue life analysis
Fatigue life analysis is the engineering practice of predicting how many cycles of repeated loading, typically well below static strength, a metallic component can sustain before fatigue failure, using stress-life, strain-life, or fracture-mechanics methods.