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William Monroe Trotter
American newspaper founder, African-American civil rights activist
Ellen Poidatz
Founder of Fondation Ellen-Poidatz
Peter Maurin
Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
Helena Rubinstein
Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
Harold Kainalu Long Castle
A large landowner, real estate developer, and philanthropist in Hawaii; founder of Kaneohe Ranch
Walter Hunziker
Founder of Tourism Science and Social Tourism
Ayyathan Gopalan
Founder of the Sugunavardhini Movement, leader and propagandist of Brahma Samaj in Kerala.
Tanner Smith
New York gang leader and founder of the Marginals
Charles E. Sorensen
American businessman
Ayyathan Gopalan
Social reformer of Kerala, founder of Sugunavardhini movement and Brahmosamaj in Kerala.
E. Urner Goodman
Founder of the Order of the Arrow
Ahmad Surkati
Founder of Arab Association for Reform and Guidance
Thomas F. Hamilton
Founder of the Hamilton Standard Company
Frederick James Bacon
Banjo player, inventor, founder of Bacon Banjo Company, composer, recording artist, musician
Kostio de War
French fashion designer specialising in knitwear and crochet, founder of the Kostio de War fashion house, actress
Ludwig Bamberger
German-British merchant, entrepreneur, company founder, art collector and artbook collector
Engenas Lekganyane
Founder of Zion Christian Church
Emily Jordan Folger
American literary scholar; co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library
Konstantin Nezlobin
Russian actor, entrepreneur, theater director, one of the founders of professional Russian theaters in Riga and Vilna at the beginning of the 20th century, founder of the Nezlobin Theater
Nokutela Dube
School founder in South Africa
Louise Helen Coburn
Founder of Sigma Kappa
Abraham Markoff
CPUSA leader and co-founder of Workers Schools
W. Mark Sexson
Founder of a masonic youth organization
Yechezkel Taub
Hasidic rabbi and founder of Kfar Hasidim
Alexander Lion
Co-founder of the German scout movement
Abraham A. Heller
Co-founder of International Publishers and director of the Soviet Bureau
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
American educator: Founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Isabella Garnett
Hospital founder and pioneering female African-American physician
Jacob L. Beilhart
Founder of the Spirit Fruit Society
Olive Willis
Founder of Downe House School
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
American dog breeder and philanthropist; founder of The Seeing Eye
Frederick George Campbell
Fraternity founder
Louis Edmund Blaze
Founder, principal of Kingswood College, Kandy
Pandithurai Thevar
Founder of fourth tamil sangam and King of Palavanatham
Ralph C. Smedley
Founder of Toastmasters International
Herman Lubinsky
American record label founder & producer
Ahmad Zaki
Egyptian chemist, founder of Egyptian Chemical Society, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology in Egypt, Egyptian National Research Center; editor of Al Hilal magazine,
Penelope Lawrence
British educator; co-founder of Roedean School, Brighton
Yaacov Palmoni
Israeli entomologist, founder and director "Beth Gordon"
Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist
American writer, publisher, literary patron, businesswoman; founder, Curtis Institute of Music