2009-03-16

Some Founders

1. Lord Robert Cecil - Born: September 14, 1864
English founder of the league of Nations and its president ( 1923-45 ), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2. James Cash Penney - Born: September 16, 1875
American founder of J.C. Penney Company department stores

3. Robert Lord Clive - Born: September 29, 1755
Founder of the British empire in India

4. Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg - Born: September 6, 1711
Founder of the American Lutheran Church

5. Colonel Harland Sanders - Born: September 9, 1890
American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurans

6. Friedrich Luding Jahn - Born: August 11, 1778
Prussian founder of the turnverein (gymnastics) movement

7. Albert Spelding - Born: September 2, 1850
Baseball player who founded Spalding Sporting Goods Company

8. George Westinghouse - Born: October 6, 1846
American inventor who founded Westinghouse Electric Company

9. Sir George Williams - Born: October 11, 1821
English founder of the YMCA

10. Rudolf Virchow - Born: October 13, 1821
German scientist who founded Cellular pathology

11. Charles Merrill - Born: October 19, 1885
American investment banker who founded Morrill-Lynch

12. C.W. Post - Born: October 26, 1854
American founder of Post Cereals

13. Cornelius Jansen - Born: October 28, 1585
Dutch theologian who founded the Jansenist sect of the Catholic Church

14. Juliette Gordon Low - Born: October 31, 1860
Founder of the American Girl Scouts

15. Charles Taze Russell - Born: February 16, 1852
American preacher, founder of the international Bible Student's Association, later known as the Jehovah's Witnesses

16. Lord Robert Baden-Powell - Born: February 22, 1857
British army officer and founder of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides

17. Allan Boesak - Born: February 23, 1945
South African Cleric, founder of the United Democratic Fornt ( UDF )

18. Bugsy Siegel - Born: February 28, 1906
American depressing-era gangster who found several casinos in Las Vagas

19. L. Ron Hubbard - Born: March 13, 1911
American founder of Scientology and author

20. Lucretia Coffin Mott - January 3, 1793
American women's rights advocate and founder of the first Women's Rights Convention

21. Sun Myung Moon - Born: January 6, 1920
Controversial Korean founder and head of the Unification Church, whose followers are commonly known as "Moonies"

22. Frank Nelson Doubleday - Born: January 8, 1862
Founder of Doubleday publishing house in New York

23. Ezra Cornell - Born: January 11, 1807
American founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University

24. Alice Paul - Born: January 11, 1885
American equal rights Amendmend advocate, founder of the National Woman's Party

25. Saint Colete - Born: January 13, 1381
French abbess and reformer, founder of the Poor Clares order of nuns

26. George S. Halas (Papa Bear) - Born: February 2, 1895
American founder of the Chicago Bears

27. William Booth - Born: April 10, 1829
English founder of the Salvation Army

28. Hans Sloane - Born: April 16, 1660
English physician and naturalist founder of the British Museum

29. Philippe Pinel - Born: April 20, 1745
French physician, founder of psychiarty

30. Friedrich Froebel - Born: April 21, 1782
German educationalist who founded Kindergarten

31. John Graunt - Born: April 24, 1620
English statistician, founder of the sciencs of demography

32. Theodor Herzl - Born: May 2, 1860
Hungarian-born journalist, founder of the Zionist movement

33. Karl Marx - Born: May 7, 1883
Prusian author, social scientist, founder of communism

34. Jean Henri Dunant - Born: May 8, 1828
Swiss author, philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross Society

35. Johns Hopkins - Born: May 19, 1795
American philanthropist founder of Johns Hopkins University

36. Albrecht Grafe - Born: May 22, 1828
German pioneer eye surgeon, founder of modern ophthalmology

37. Baron Paul Julius von Reuter - Born: July 21, 1816
German founder of Reuters News Service

38. Hermann Oberth - Born: June 25, 1894
German founder of modern astronautics

39. Jean-Victor Poncelet - Born: July 1, 1788
French mathematician who founded projective geometry

40. Philip Murray - Born: May 25, 1886
Scottish-born American labor leader who founded Congress of Industrial Organization

41. John Wesley - Born: June 17, 1703
English evangelish, founder of the Methodist Church

Source: World History

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