Who is father of PHP?

The father of PHP is Rasmus Lerdorf.

Background:

• Created PHP in 1994 as "Personal Home Page"
• Originally a set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in C
• Later evolved into "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" (recursive acronym)

Evolution Timeline:

1994: PHP/FI (Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter)
1997: PHP/FI 2.0 - Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans joined
1998: PHP 3.0 - Complete rewrite
2000: PHP 4.0 - Zend Engine
2004: PHP 5.0 - Zend Engine II, OOP support
2015: PHP 7.0 - Major performance improvements
2020: PHP 8.0 - JIT compiler, union types
2023: PHP 8.3 - Latest stable version

Current Status: PHP powers over 70% of websites worldwide, including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress.