Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō; 2 June 1891 – 16 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze.
Source: “Takijirō Ōnishi”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt