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.

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Other prominent Music graduates include violist Martin Outram, baritone John Noble, bassist Simon Fell and two founding members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.

Together with her husband, Finzi played an important part in founding the Newbury String Players.

Ray Shows, founding member of the Artaria String Quartet ( Boston 1986 ), professor at St. Olaf College and 2004 prizewinner of a McKnight Fellowship plays a violin by David Tecchler from the year 1726.

He was a member of the Oberlin String Quartet, a founding member of Quartet Canada, led the CBC String Quartet and formed the Staryk-Perry Duo ( with pianist John Perry ).

In 1934 he became one of the founding members of the Hungarian String Quartet.

He was a founding member and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 52 years, and mentor to younger generations of string musicians.

Mr. Mann's son, Nicholas, a violinist and violist with whom Mr. Mann often plays duo recitals, is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet.

Among early modernist non-literary landmarks is the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the Expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Expressionist Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

Along with his older brother Dorsey Burnette and friend Paul Burlison, Burnette was a founding member of The Rock and Roll Trio.

Other artists including comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Timothy B. Schmit of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons, Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Beach Boys ' Al Jardine, Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin, Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas, banjo master Tony Trischka, pop groups ABBA and The Bee Gees, Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin and Paul Kantner, Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay, Byrds co-founder Gene Clark, roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman, singer-songwriters Tom Paxton, Harry Chapin, Jimmy Buffett, Tim Buckley, Steve Goodman ( composer of " The City Of New Orleans "), Steve Gillette, Michael Smith ( composer of " The Dutchman "), and Shawn Colvin, folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan, folk and rock musician Jerry Yester, and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer among many others cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers.

Menahem Pressler ( born 16 December 1923, Magdeburg ) is a German-born American pianist and a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.

* David Patterson ( guitarist ) ( born 1966 ), American guitarist who was a founding member of the New World Guitar Trio

She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio ( now renamed Tin Hat ), Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger.

Ohlsson is a founding member of San Francisco's FOG Trio, together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier.

Adela Peña is an American violinist best known as a founding member of the Eroica Trio.

Peña was the violinist for the Eroica Trio from its founding until 2006, when she left the ensemble.

After World War II, he signed up and became one of the founding members of the Malcolm Mitchell Trio, before leaving in 1954.