In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the influential Bourbaki group.

Along with the Chicago Bears, the club is one of two NFL charter member franchises still in operation since the league's founding.

Under Abdülaziz's reign, Turkey's first postage stamps were issued in 1863, and Turkey joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875 as a founding member.

It is a founding member of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( Rio Treaty ).

Behrens was a founding member of the Werkbund, and both Walter Gropius and Adolf Meier worked for him in this period.

This influence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922.

* Beeb Birtles, a singer-songwriter and a founding member of Little River Band.

Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

He is best known as a founding member of and lead guitarist for the band Widespread Panic.

Chile is a founding member of the United Nations, the Union of South American Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

Cuba is currently a lead country on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and is a founding member of the organization known as the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a member of the Latin American Integration Association and the United Nations.

It is now the largest single-issue consumer group in the UK, and is a founding member of the European Beer Consumers ' Union ( EBCU ).

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

The Xinhai Revolution ultimately succeeded with the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, and Chiang became a founding member of the KMT.

Neil is the younger brother of Split Enz founding member Tim Finn, who joined Crowded House in 1990 on vocals, guitars and keyboards for the album Woodface.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

Eastman is credited as a founding member of the ACLU, but her role as founder of the NCLB may have been largely ignored by posterity due to her personal differences with Baldwin.

Denmark has been a member of NATO since its founding in 1949, and membership in NATO remains highly popular.

The Disciples continues to relate to the National Council of Churches, of which it was a founding member.

A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

The DPP is a member of Liberal International and a founding member of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.

Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers.

Writers such as Liang Yusheng and Louis Cha ( Jin Yong ) spearheaded the founding of the " new school " ( 新派 ) wuxia genre that differed largely from its predecessors.

He was a founding member and chair of the Writers ' Union of Canada, and a president of the Canadian chapter of PEN International.

Among Horwood's other accomplishments were being a founding member and head of the Writers ' Union of Canada, and holding the position of writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario and University of Waterloo.

She was a founding member of The Writers ’ Union of Canada and for many years was on the executive of The Writers ' Trust, a charitable organization for the support of Canadian authors and literature.

Fleischer also contributed to the founding of the Boxing Writers Association of America ( BWAA ) and was twice presented with its James J. Walker Award.

Biggle was the founding Secretary Treasurer of Science Fiction Writers of America and served as Chairman of its trustees for many years.

In 1917, he played a role in founding of the Union of Georgian Writers.

He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America, which presents the annual Edgar Awards in various categories of mystery writing.

Its founding members included Joe S. Jackson, the association's first president ; syndicated columnist Hugh Fullerton ; and Boston Globe baseball writer Tim Murnane (" Baseball Writers Unite ," 9 ).

She is a founding member of the Literary Translators ' Association of Canada and founding co-editor of Ellipse: Œuvres en traduction / Writers in Translation.

International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee is a founding member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of non-governmental organisations that monitors censorship worldwide and defends journalists, writers, internet users and others who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.

He took part in founding Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan ( SFWJ, 日本SF作家クラブ ) in 1963, and served as its president from 1978 to 1979.

With Roland Robinson and Kevin Collopy, in 1948 Cato was one of the founding members of the Lyre-Bird Writers, an independent and cooperative group that formed to publish verse by Australian writers.

In 1966 he became the founding director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, a project intended to transform the teaching of writing in the schools.

A frequent juror for competitions in all fields of creative endeavour, Grierson was a charter member of the Writers Guild of Canada, one of the founding members of the BC Chapter of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and sat on the board of directors of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

She was a member of the Rakina Academy in Paris, a founding member of the Company of Writers, member of the Company of Greek Novelists, of Pen Club, of the Greek Literature and Historical Archive and many more.

A founding member of the Writers ' Union of Canada, he served on the executive board for many years and as president in 1986.

Zhou Yang ( November 7, 1908-July 31, 1989, Wade-Giles Chou Yang ) was a Chinese literary theorist and Marxist thinker, active from the founding of the League of the Left-Wing Writers in 1930.

He was a founding member of the Slovo Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile.

He's a member of The Writers ' Union of Canada, SF Canada and is a founding member of The Emily Chesley Reading Circle.