Cleomenes II
Cleomenes II( died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC.
The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II.
He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II.
Inoue Masaru (bureaucrat)
Viscount was the first Director of Railways in Japan and is known as the" father of the Japanese railways".
John Templeton (botanist)
John Templeton( 1766–1825) was an early Irish naturalist and botanist.
He is often referred to as the" Father of Irish Botany".
He was the father of naturalist, artist and entomologist Robert Templeton.
Obata Toramori
He was the father of Obata Masamori.
Knud Ringnes
Knud Maartmann Ringnes (14 April 1875 – 1945) was a Norwegian businessman.
He was born in Kristiania, the eldest son of Ellef Ringnes (1842–1929), brewery owner and benefactor, and his wife Kaja, née Maartmann (1851–1933).
He was a nephew of Amund Ringnes and maternal grandson of Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann, his namesake.
He graduated from Kristiania Technical School in 1896, and studied in England, the United States and at the University of Bonn from 1898 to 1899.
He was hired in Ringnes Bryggeri in 1897, a brewery founded by his father and uncle.
His uncle on the maternal side, Harald Sigvart Maartmann, took over the company in 1901, and Knud Ringnes became chief executive officer in 1921.
He chaired the organization Norwegian Brewers in Oslo from 1914 to 1918 and 1924 to 1929, and nationwide from 1919 to 1921.
He was a board member of Federation of Norwegian Industries, the Norwegian Maritime Museum, Det Norske Travselskaps Landbane, Holmenkollen Turisthotel, Nora Fabrikker and "Norges Handels- & Sjøfartstidende".
He was a supervisory council member of Folketeatret (chair), Nationaltheatret, Forsikringsaktieselskabet Norden, Norske Liv and Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse.
He was a member of Oslo city council from 1916 to 1919, council member of the Norwegian Geographical Society, chaired the committee for the conservation of the ship "Fram".
He was also a member of the gentlemen's club SK Fram (not related to the ship) since 1936.
He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav.
He was also rewarded crosses of the Austrian Order of Franz Joseph and the German Red Cross Decoration.
Takayama Tomoteru
He was the father of Takayama Ukon, and was a Kirishitan.
Anacyndaraxes
Anacyndaraxes was the father of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria.
Eystein Glumra
Eystein Glumra(" Eystein the Noisy" or" Eystein the Clatterer"; Modern Norwegian" Øystein Glumra") also known as Eystein Ivarsson, was reputedly a petty king on the west coast of Norway, during the 9th Century.
The" Heimskringla" saga states that Eystein Glumra was the father of Rognvald Eysteinsson and Sigurd Eysteinsson:" The first earl in the Orkney Islands was called Sigurd, who was a son of Eystein Glumra, and brother of Ragnvald earl of More.
After Sigurd, his son Guthorm was earl for one year.
After him Torf- Einar, a son of Ragnvald, took the earldom, and was long earl, and was a man of great power".
According to the" Orkneyinga Saga", Eystein Glumra was the son of Ivar the jarl of Uplanders and grandson of Halfdan the Old.
" Orkneyinga Saga" also named Eystein Glumra as the father of Rognvald Eysteinsson:" Heiti, Gorr ’s son, was father of Sveiði the sea-king,[ who was] the father of Halfdan the old,[ who was] the father of Ivar the Uplanders ’ earl,[ who was] the father of Eystein the noisy,[ who was] the father of earl Rognvald the mighty and wise in council".
Linnea Hartsuyker's books
The Half- drowned King and The Sea Queen cover the lives of Eystein's children.
Ellef Ringnes
Ellef Ringnes (25 October 184215 March 1929) was a Norwegian brewer and patron.
He was born at the Ringnes farm in Krødsherad, Buskerud
to farmer Anders Knudsen Ringnes (1813–75) and his wife Maren Amundsdatter (1815–76).
His father left the farm in 1855, and Ellef was employed as travelling salesman for Christiania Bryggeri at the age of 18.
In 1876, he founded Ringnes & Compani brewery with his brother Amund Ringnes and the businessman Axel Heiberg.
It was the eighth brewery in Christiania (now Oslo), and later had its name changed to Ringnes Bryggeri.
The Ringnes brewery became successful, and Ellef Ringnes and his brother became patrons in Christiania.
They invested in the construction of the Holmenkollen Line and sanatoriums in the Holmenkollen area.
From 1896 to 1906, Ellef Ringnes was a member of the board of the Holmenkolbanen light rail company, which built and operated the Holmenkollen Line.
Ellef and Amund Ringnes sponsored Fridtjof Nansen's "Fram" expedition, which they in a short period of time led together with businessman Axel Heiberg and shipowner Thomas Fearnley.
They also sponsored explorer Otto Sverdrup's 1898–1902 "Fram" expedition; as a compensation Sverdrup named two discovered islands after them: Ellef Ringnes Island and Amund Ringnes Island.
On 30 June 1869, Ringnes married Karen Tonette ("Kaja")
Maartmann (1851–1933) with whom he had 14 children.
His father-in-law was Knud Geelmuyden Fleischer Maartmann.
In 1896, Ringnes became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
In the same year, he bought Ringnes farm from his brother Amund, who earlier had inherited it from his father.
Many parties were arranged at the farm house, to which both royal personages and prominent society members were invited.
His residence at St. Hanshaugen Park, dubbed "Cairo" and "Ringnes Castle", was likewise the scene of many parties in his lifetime.
In 1901, Ringnes was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harald Sigvart Maartmann as managing director of Ringnes brewery.
Maartman was in turn succeeded by his son Knud Maartmann Ringnes (1875–1945) in 1920.
Ringnes was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1896, and upgraded to Commander of the First Class in 1908.
He was also a Commander of the Legion of Honour.
Ringnes was an honorary member of the Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish brewery associations.
In 1930, a bust of him was erected at Holmenkollen.
Ringnes died in Oslo on 15 March 1929, aged 86.
Arthur Beauchamp
Arthur Beauchamp( 1827 – 28 April 1910) was a Member of Parliament from New Zealand.
He is remembered as the father of Harold Beauchamp, who rose to fame as chairman of the Bank of New Zealand and was the father of writer Katherine Mansfield.

Question: Where was the father of Knud Ringnes born?
Answer: Krødsherad