Francesco I Sforza ( July 23, 1401 – March 8, 1466 ) was an Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy.

Francesco and Ferdinando, due to lax distinction between Medici and Tuscan state property, are thought to have been wealthier than their ancestor, Cosimo de ' Medici, the founder of the dynasty.

Thomas Francis of Savoy ( Italian Tommaso Francesco di Savoia, Principe di Carignano, French Thomas François de Savoie, Prince de Carignan ; 21 December 1596 – 22 January 1656 ) was an Italian military commander, the founder of the Savoy-Carignano branch of the House of Savoy which reigned as kings of Sardinia from 1831 to 1861, and as kings of Italy from 1861 until the dynasty's deposition in 1946.

In a process instituted against a particular Umbrian group of Fraticelli in 1360, it is noted that Fra Francesco Niccolò of Perugia was their founder.

Cipriani was a founder member ( 1768 ) of the Royal Academy, and designed its diploma, which was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.

Saint Francis of Paola, O. M., ( or: Francesco di Paola or Saint Francis the Fire Handler, March 27, 1416 – April 2, 1507 ) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims.

Francesco and Ferdinando, due to lax distinction between Medici and Tuscan state property, are thought to be wealthier than their ancestor, Cosimo de ' Medici, the founder of the dynasty.

The history of illycaffè is inextricably linked to the lives of the company's founder, Francesco Illy, and his family.

Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.

Indeed, in the 5th century the portrait of the reigning emperor was still honoured this way in the courts of justice and municipal buildings of the empire and in 425 the Arian Philostorgius charged the orthodox in Constantinople with idolatry because they still honored the image of the emperor Constantine the Great, the founder of the city, in this way.

He was the founder of the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū or Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship and the author of, a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today.

" EH 4. 29. 6 mentions the Diatessaron: " But their original founder, Tatian, formed a certain combination and collection of the gospels, I know not how, to which he gave the title Diatessaron, and which is still in the hands of some.

Thomas Reid, the eighteenth-century founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, realised that sensation was composed of a set of data transfers but declared that there is still a direct connection between perception and the world.

* October – Twinings founder, Thomas Twining, opens the first known tea room at 216 Strand, London, still open.

Until his death on September 18, 2008 at the age of 93, Henry Z. Steinway, the great-grandson of the Steinway founder, still worked for Steinway and put his signature on custom-made limited edition pianos.

Peter Waldo, Valdo, Valdes, or Waldes ( c. 1140 – c. 1218 ), also Pierre Vaudès or de Vaux, is credited as the founder of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages, descendants of which still exist in various regions of southern Europe.

" It is said that this practice was initiated by Liu Bang 劉邦, the founder of the Han Dynasty, in emulation of Ying Zheng ( who granted his own father the title posthumously once he took on the new title of Huangdi 皇帝 for himself ), because Liu Bang would not be bowed to by his own father, who was still technically a commoner.

Most notably he was the founder of the Romanesque Wawel Cathedral of which the Silver Bells Tower still remains standing.

Ionesco, Adamov, and Arrabal for example, were friends with Surrealists still living in Paris at the time including Paul Eluard and André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and Beckett translated many Surrealist poems by Breton and others from French into English.

Eamon Everall, Artist / Educator and founder member of the Stuckism, art movement attended the Harvey Grammar school and Folkestone School of Art and still maintains a base here.

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, British actor Bill Nighy, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings ; its founder was John Rety.

Georgia's founder and colonial governor, James Oglethorpe, renamed the island " Amelia Island " in honor of Princess Amelia ( 1710 – 1786 ), King George II's daughter, although the island was still a Spanish possession.

In the discussions among the settlers, however, they decided that as Mr. Flemming owned nearly all the land and was the colony founder he should have the naming privilege, despite the fact that he still lived in Port Orange.

Ransom E. Olds, the founder and head of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company that was the foundation for the later establishment of Oldsmobile by General Motors Corporation, built a grand summer estate on Elba Island in 1916, which caught fire due to electrical mishaps in 2005, however was restored by the current owner and still stands today.

Lebanon is part of the historic U. S. Route 66 in Missouri and has hosted tourism-related businesses such as the Munger-Moss Motel ( still extant ) and Wrink's Market ( closed 2009, its founder Glen Wrinkle deceased 2007, building now houses D. C. Decker ’ s Cowboy Emporium ).

Gibson station, as it became known, still retains the name of its founder.

In response to a backlash against the Treaty, politician Winston Peters, the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand ( and founder of the New Zealand First Party ), and others have campaigned to remove vague references to the Treaty from New Zealand law, although the New Zealand Māori Council case of 1990 indicated that even if this does happen, the Treaty may still be legally relevant.

It still remains almost entirely within the same boundaries laid out by its primary founder, John Lawson.

There are similarities with the arms of Lincoln College, Oxford, where one of the elements consists of three golden stags statant ( standing still ); this was derived from the coat of arms of Lincoln's so-called " second founder ", Thomas Rotherham.

Emma Hale Smith, wife of Latter-day Saint Movement founder, Joseph Smith, grew up in Oakland Township when it was still part of Harmony Township.

In November 1792, he was appointed the first postmaster at Rogersville, and the second post office of Rogersville, built by its founder circa 1815, still stands at the corner of East Main Street and South Hasson Street.

Many living descendants of these families, including relatives of J. Willard Marriott, pioneer hotelier of the 20th century and founder of Marriott International, still reside within Marriott-Slaterville.

Thus, Rama Varma Kulasekara, the last emperor of Chera dynasty, is probably the founder of the Venad royal house, and the the title of Chera kings, Kulasekara, was thenceforth kept by the rulers of Venad.

The structures of a han and the Bakufu were principally similar because Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the bakufu, kept the governmental structure which his ancestors had developed when they were small local daimyo in Mikawa Province.

A plot was kept for the Vanderbilt family in the Moravian Cemetery and several of them are buried there in the family mausoleum including the family founder.

But it's gone down into the history books ; they forgot the founder, thank heavens, and kept the terms, and, of course, I said objectivist, and they said objectivism and that makes all the difference.

Nathan Green, Jr. kept the school together until Henry Cooper, a circuit judge, Andrew B. Martin, and Robert L. Caruthers, brother of deceased founder Abraham Caruthers, joined the faculty.

Successive abbots and abbesses were members of the founder ’ s family, a policy which kept the monastic lands under the jurisdiction of the family ( and corresponded to Irish legal tradition, which only allowed the transfer of land within a family ).

His supposed relics are still kept in the cathedral of Chur, although there is little doubt among scholars that the bishopric was only established some 150 years after its alleged founder was martyred.

During the 1890s in Amiens, the Yvert family's printing works is the property of Louis Yvert, grandson of the founder, and his chief printer Théodule Tellier ; Tellier kept the company running after the premature death of Louis ' father.

While his father-in-law had been an active supporter of voting rights and his second wife was a founder of the National Council of Negro Women and an avid advocate for education reform, Gaston himself kept a low political profile through most of the 1940s and 1950s.

The founder of the dynasty, Lucius Septimius Severus, was descended from a provincial family from North Africa and is reputed to have kept his African accent until his death.

The founder of the Armenakan party, Mekertich Portukalian ( from Marseilles ) kept in touch with the leaders, and published a journal of political and social enlightenment, " Armenia ".

So many of them could claim him as founder that it is doubtful whether, at the age of thirty-six, he could have kept an accurate record of them all.

On June 8, 2012, Kamelot founder and guitarist, Thomas Youngblood, announced in an interview that he kept in contact with Roy after Roy's departure.

Tech Pacific was kept as a separate trading entity as Jodee Rich, founder of Imagineering, wanted a vehicle to exclusively distribute product lines that competed with the product lines carried by Imagineering Australia.

Prior to the meeting, Taylor is said to have met with Jesus Christ and the deceased church founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., and to have received a revelation commanding that plural marriage should not cease, but be kept alive by a group separate from the LDS Church.

Manager / Megaforce founder Johnny Zazula believed that Raven was major-label material, and kept them touring constantly until the big labels noticed.

In Olympia, WA, they met Kill Rock Stars / 5RC founder Slim Moon, with whom they kept in touch after the show.

He kept his seat at Nin and Biograd na Moru, however, the city of Šibenik holds a statue of him and is sometimes called Krešimir's city (" Krešimirov grad ", in Croatian ) because he is generally credited as the founder.

After the original Illés formation broke up, founder and keyboardist Lajos Illés kept operating a band with the same name until the early 1980s.