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There are many candidates and they all have their advocates. Among the leading contenders for the (practically meaningless) title, Charles Babbage, Konrad Zuse, John Atanasoff and John von Neumann. "Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan."

Alan Turing is generally recognized as "the father of computer science", which some people confuse with "the father of modern computers". Computer science is to computers as astronomy is to telescopes.

Alan Turing.

John von Neumann

Charles Babbage is the father of modern day computers.

Charles Babbage

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