The founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed that he was the return of Christ as well as prophetic expectations of other religions.

In his later writings, the founder of prophetic Kabbalah produces a synthesis between Maimonides ’ Neoaristotelian understanding of prophecy as the result of the transformation of the intellectual influx into a linguistic message and techniques to reach such experiences by means of combinations of letters and their pronunciation, breathing exercises, contemplation of parts of the body, movements of the head and hands, and concentration exercises.

Bahá ' ís also see this work as holy, since they consider their founder to be the fulfillment of the Báb's main prophetic anticipation.

Rachel Bromwich suggests that Geoffrey was relying on an older tradition identifying the founder of Brittany with the prophetic Cynan, and argues that this identification is made already in Armes Prydein.

" His supporters say that if Christians throughout the world are completely faithful to the Beauty of Truth, Jesus Christ, then " the greatest revolution of all time would take place ," according to what they see as the prophetic vision of Opus Dei's founder — a vision altogether dismissed by its many critics.

Omri ( Ahab's father and founder of the short lived Omri Dynasty ) seems to have been a successful military leader being reported in the text of the Moabite Mesha Stele to have " oppressed Moab for many days ".

The founder of the POS and its best-known leader, Luis Emilio Recabarren, also founded the Communist Party of Chile ( – PCCh ) in 1922.

Dimona is home to Israel's Black Hebrew community, governed by its founder and spiritual leader, Ben Ammi Ben-Israel.

Hermann Ehrhardt, founder and leader of Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, and his deputy Commander Eberhard Kautter, leaders of the Viking League, refused to help Hitler and Erich Ludendorff in their Beer Hall Putsch and conspired against them.

In 1536, with Protestantism in the ascendancy, John Calvin, the founder of Calvinism, became the spiritual leader of the city.

It was named after Arthur Griffith who was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin and also served as President of Dáil Éireann.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

Godfrey of Bouillon | Godefroy de Bouillon, a French knight, leader of the First Crusade and founder of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Under its founder and spiritual leader, Johann Georg Rapp ( 1757 – 1847 ); Frederick ( Reichert ) Rapp ( 1775 – 1834 ), his adopted son who managed its business affairs ; and their associates, the Society existed for one hundred years ; roughly from 1805 until 1905.

Joseph Smith ( 1805 – 1844 ) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism.

Liebknecht, a founder and leader of the German Social-Democratic Party, gave a speech in German, and Longuet, a prominent figure in the French working-class movement, made a short statement in French.

The Kuomintang considers all minorities to be members of the Chinese Nation, Chiang Kai-shek, the Kuomintang party leader, considered all the minority peoples of China, including the Hui, as descedants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation.

Prince was a Japanese politician in the Empire of Japan who served as the 34th, 38th and 39th Prime Minister of Japan and founder / leader of the Taisei Yokusankai.

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

The founder and first leader of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, noted in his journal that this event was a literal fulfillment of the word of God and a sure sign that the coming of Christ is close at hand.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

SSCMS was founded in 2001 under the vision and guidance of His Holiness Ravi Shankar ( spiritual leader ), the founder of Art of Living Foundation, an educational non-governmental organization ( NGO ).

* 1931 – Jim Jones, American founder and leader of the Peoples Temple ( d. 1978 )

* Monk Eastman ( 1875 – 1920 ), founder and leader of a powerful New York City gang

The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.

Osman I or Othman I or Osman Gazi ( 1258 – 1326 ) Sultan Osman Ghazi, or Osman Bey or I. Osman, Osman Gazi Han ), nicknamed " Kara " for his courage, was the leader of the Ottoman Turks, and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire.

Some New Religious Movements, especially those that have disassociated themselves from the Catholic Church yet retain a Catholic hierarchical framework, will use the designation " pope " for a movement's founder or current leader.

FARC founder and leader Manuel Marulanda Vélez is second from left.

During this year on 10 August senior leader Jacobo Arenas, an ideological leader and founder of FARC-EP, died.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

The founder of the movement was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, David Brandt Berg ( 1919 – 1994 ), also known within the group as Moses David, Mo, Father David, and Dad to adult group members, and eventually as Grandpa to the group's youngest members.

* Watchman Fellowship, founder David Henke, president James K. Walker

John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume were the primary exponents of empiricism in the 18th century Enlightenment, with Locke being the person who is normally known as the founder of empiricism as such.

* David Walsh, art collector and founder of the Museum of Old and New Art

A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

David Ben-Gurion declaring independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism

It has been criticized numerous times by religious organizations for its diabolic undertones and was dubbed a " mass murder simulator " by critic and Killology Research Group founder David Grossman.

The Museum's founder David Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2001.

Malcolm's main achievement is to have continued a line which would rule Scotland for many years, although his role as " founder of a dynasty " has more to do with the propaganda of his youngest son David, and his descendants, than with any historical reality.

In the United States, ethnic mysticist approaches are advocated in the form of anti-racist Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen's " metagenetics " and by David Lane's openly white supremacist Wotanism.

BusinessLand founder David Norman predicted that sales of the NeXT Computer would surpass sales of Compaq computers after 12 months.

* David Yonggi Cho – Senior pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church ( Assemblies of God ) in Seoul, Korea, the world's largest congregation

As one of the so-called " Gang of Four ", he was a founder of the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) in January 1981 with David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

The current package design and bottle design and shape was created in 1988 by David Taylor, founder of Taylorbrands.

Such exemplary saints include martyrs, confessors of the Faith, evangelists, or important biblical figures such as Saint Matthew, the Lutheran theologian and martyr to the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Salvation Army Founder William Booth, African missionary David Livingstone and Methodism's revered founder John Wesley are among many cited as Protestant saints.

* David Ossman, founder of Firesign Theater

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.