The Father of the Nation is an honorific title given to a person considered the driving force behind the establishment of a country, state, or nation. Pater Patriae was a Roman honorific meaning the "
George Washington, commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, president of the Constitutional Convention, and the first president of the United States, is commonly considered the Father of the Nation in the United States.
Sun Yat-sen was a Chinese physician, revolutionary and political philosopher who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang. Sun is credited with leading the 1911 Revolution and overthrowing the
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Sun (second from left) and his friends the Four Bandits: Yeung Hok-ling (left), Chan Siu-bak (middle), Yau Lit (right), and Guan Jingliang (關景良, standing) at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, circa 1888
Plaque in London marking the site of a house at 4 Warwick Court, WC1, in which Sun Yat-sen lived in exile. Text: "Father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on this site while a political exile from his country".
Wedding photo, Sun's 2nd marriage, to Soong Ching-ling, October 1915, Tokyo.