* Jožef Školč, politician ( from Breginj ), founder and first president of the Liberal Democratic Party ;

* Horace Greeley ( 1811 – 1872 ), editor, founder of the Liberal Republican Party

John Ballance ( 27 March 1839 – 27 April 1893 ) served as the 14th Premier of New Zealand at the end of the 19th century, and was the founder of the Liberal Party ( the country's first organised political party ).

John Ballance, founder of the Liberal Party, had been a strong supporter of voting rights for women, declaring his belief in the " absolute equality of the sexes ".

On 20 September 2010: " Ewan Hoyle, founder of Liberal Democrats for Drug Policy Reform, says his party should support legalisation cannabis ".

Horace Greeley ( February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872 ) was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery.

The British scholar Daniel Langton's study of the spiritual founder of the Liberal Synagogue, Claude Montefiore, has caused recent debate.

In June 2009, Adam Busby Jr., the son of the SNLA founder, was jailed for 6 years for sending a total of 6 packages to various political figures, including First Minister Alex Salmond, Liberal Democrats MSP Mike Rumbles and Glasgow City Council.

* Canadian Charles Templeton ( 7 October 1915 – 7 June 2001 ), the co-founder of Youth for Christ, was an evangelist in the Church of the Nazarene, and founder of the Avenue Road Church of the Nazarene in Toronto, Canada, before becoming an agnostic, Ontario Liberal Party politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author ;

As a local party activist he was a founder member of the Avon Liberal Democrats and was elected as a councillor to the Avon County Council in 1981 for Cabot ward, and was the SDP-Liberal Alliance group leader from 1981-6, he also served as the county's education committee chairman, and he remained a councillor until 1989.

He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament ( MP ); the first-ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party ( 1888-1893 ); a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 ; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934.

* Pauline Hanson, former member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Independent member for Oxley ( 1996 – 1998 ) and founder of the One Nation Party.

The classical liberalism | classical liberal platform adopted by Liberal Democracy mirrored the personal views of its founder and President, Alain Madelin.

Following qualification he was a founder member of the Manchester Liberal Association, although he was subsequently to fall out with the Liberals.

On February 28, 2005, founder St-Maurice announced his intention to join the Liberal Party in order to work for liberalized marijuana laws from within the governing party.

Guzmán was born in Caracas as the son of Antonio Leocadio Guzmán, a Venezuelan journalist, politician as well as founder of the Liberal Party and Carlota Blanco Jerez de Aristeguieta.

was a Japanese educator of the Meiji era, the founder of Doshisha University and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.

1988-1990 saw 3AK again become a purely talk format station, with such high profile names as Darren James ( with Bruce Mansfield as Uncle Roy ), Margaret Peacock, Don Chipp ( a former Federal Liberal Party Minister and later the founder of and Senator for the Australian Democrats ), Peter O ' Callaghan ( an ex 3XY and EON FM DJ ), Keith McGowan and Bill Howie ( a former 3AK Programme Director ).

Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, JP, DL, TD ( 11 February 1836 – 23 February 1918 ), was a British Liberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual.

Canwest founder Izzy Asper was known as a strong supporter of both Canada's Liberal Party and Israel's right-wing Likud party, and of many laissez-faire policies in both countries.

Nenad Prokić ( Serbian: Ненад Прокић ) is a playwright, theatre director, a member of the Presidency and founder of the Liberal Democratic Party and MP in the Parliament of Serbia.

* Former South Australian state Liberal minister Robert Brokenshire contested the 2007 federal election for the party, and subsequently won preselection to replace retiring founder Evans in the state Legislative Council.

Sir Richard Layton Butler, founder of the Liberal and Country League

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

In 1997, a group led by Vladimiro Roca, a decorated veteran of the Angolan war and the son of the founder of the Cuban Communist Party, sent a petition, entitled La Patria es de Todos (" the homeland belongs to all ") to the Cuban general assembly requesting democratic and human rights reforms.

Kuomintang ideology promoted the view that the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang, the revolution, and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven.

Ba ' ath Party founder Michel Aflaq ( left ) with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( right ) in 1988.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

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 used traditional Chinese religious ceremonies, the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang and the revolution and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven according to the Kuomintang party.

The Muslim General Ma Bufang also put Kuomintang party symbols on his mansion, the Ma Bufang Mansion along with a portrait of party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen arranged with the Kuomintang Party flag and the Republic of China flag.

For a time, he was also donating money to the Black Panther Party and considered himself a friend of founder Bobby Seale.

Both New Order and Joy Division were portrayed in the Michael Winterbottom film 24 Hour Party People, depicting the rise and fall of Factory Records as seen through the eyes of label founder Tony Wilson.

RAF founder Ulrike Meinhof had a long history in the Communist Party.

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.

Furthermore, Serbian Radical Party founder and paramilitary Vojislav Šešelj claimed that President Milošević personally asked him to send paramilitaries into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The name is derived from a maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of the original Peruvian Communist Party in the 1920s: " El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución " (" Marxism – Leninism will open the shining path to revolution ").

* 1923 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.

He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections.

He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party of 1912.

A quote from Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party platform was cited as an epigram by Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in his 2006 manifesto: " Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The United States Reform Party nominated party founder Ross Perot of Texas in its first election as an official political party.

White supremacist, Christian Identity theorist and Posse Comitatus founder William Potter Gale was California " state chairman of the Constitution Party " in 1957.

** Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of the APRA Party ( b. 1895 )

He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action.

He chose 32-year-old historian and Christian Democratic Party founder Mart Laar as prime minister.

* Job Harriman ( 1861-1925 ), vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America and founder of a utopian community