Augustine was the Founding Chair of the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population & Development, Chair of the National Sugar Caucus, Chair of the Micro-credit Summit Council of Canadian Parliamentarians, Chair of the Canada-Slovenia Parliamentary Group and Chair of the Canada-Africa Parliamentary Group.

* Founding member and Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus

* Founding Chair of the Financial Markets Caucus

Phyllis Lambert is the Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Mirko Zardini is the Director and Chief Curator.

Vice President, International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth ’ s Interior ( 1983 – 1987 ), Board Member and Chair of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Section, International Council of Scientific Unions ( 1988 – 1991 ), Founding Chairman, International Committee for Geophysical Theory and Computers ( 1964 – 1979 ), and Expert, Technical meetings on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ( 1960 – 1990 ).

In 2005 and 2006, he served as the Founding Director of the Global College at the University of Winnipeg and Chair of the College's Advisory Board.

He served as Founding Chair of Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and has focused his research especially on effects of human activities on the global environment.

* Dr. Jerome Mahaffey-John & Corrine Graf Endowed Chair of Communication Studies, researcher in Rhetoric Communications and author of Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation.

Fraser worked as a music teacher and became Director of St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh from 1989 to 1995, as well as being Founding Chair of the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1986 – 89, a Governor of the former Laurel Bank School for Girls from 1988 to 1995 and a Director of Scottish Opera from 1990-1994.

* John Waldhausen, M. D., Surgeon ( Cardiac ), John W. Oswald Professor of Surgery Emeritus, Founding Chair Dept Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

* Founding Member and Honorary Chair, " Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert " ( JALBCA )

* Founding Chair, Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk, World Economic Forum

Bernstein served as the Founding Chair of Human Rights Watch until 1990 and thereafter as the Founding Chair Emeritus.

* 1920 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh ( d. 1975 )

From February 1975 to November 1999, Hasselmann was Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg.

He served as Professor of Industrial Administration in the Graduate School at Carnegie Mellon University ( 1963 – 1968 ); Founding Dean and Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee ( 1968 – 1973 ); professor at the European Foundation for Management Development, Brussels, Belgium ( 1973 – 1975 ); Distinguished Justin Potter Professor of Free American Enterprise, Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University ( 1973 – 1976 ); Professor, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden ( 1976 – 1983 ), and Professor, United States International University, San Diego, California ( 1984 – 2001 ).

* 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

* 1960 – Founding of the Orthodox Bahá ' í Faith in Washington, D. C.

* 1745 – Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States ( d. 1813 )

* 1876 – Founding of the National Amateur Press Association ( NAPA ) in Philadelphia.

George Washington ( –, 1799 ), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, serving as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later as the new republic's first President.

* 1981 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its " Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China ", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.

* 1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.

* 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher ; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1804 )

* 1945 – Founding of the United Nations

* 1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.

) – July 4, 1826 ) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) and the third President of the United States ( 1801 – 1809 ).

* March 1 – Founding of the British Phycological Society.

* June 24 – Founding of RIA Novosti.

* November 3 – Founding of Argentinian football team, Newell's Old Boys in the city of Rosario.

* October 24 – Lambda Sigma Gamma Sorority Inc. was founded at Sacramento State by Linda V. Fuentes and 26 Founding Mothers.

* May 22 – Hugh Williamson, American Founding Father ( b. 1735 )

* March 19 – Founding of Cavendish Villa Football Club.

* March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father ( d. 1813 )

* Elofson, Warren M. The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party 1768 – 1773 1996

* David Thompson ( less commonly Thomson ), founder ( 1623 ) of the first European settlement in New Hampshire, United States ( See: History of New Hampshire # Founding: 1600 – 1775 )

* Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ) polymath, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

In the mid 1930s, two Columbia, Mississippi cowboys – Earl and Weldon Bascom – made Columbia the historic “ Home of Mississippi Rodeo .” Known as the “ Founding Fathers of Mississippi Rodeo ,” the Bascom brothers pioneered the sport in Mississippi, producing the first rodeo in Marion County in 1935.

* Founding Statement, 1986.

Founding guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof remained the group's sole consistent creative force throughout its career, despite reducing his role strictly to composition in 1986 after tiring of touring.

Founding Geely in 1986 as a refrigerator-maker with money borrowed from family, Li Shufu transformed his company into a successful private automaker selling cheap products to Chinese consumers.

Rohr was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971 and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986 where he currently serves as the Founding Director.

The Mothers Association split in 1986, establishing two groups of around 2, 000 members each: Bonafini's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Association, and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo — Founding Line.