* April 10 – Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy ( d. 1843 )

The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, when translating William Cullen's Materia medica, noticed Cullen had written that Peruvian bark was known to cure intermittent fevers.

Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, practised in Köthen from 1821 to 1834, and during this period he published many of his best-known works.

Baron Seutin Commander of the Order of Leopold ( Ordre de Léopold ), who converted to homeopathy to become the founder of the « Belgian Homeopathic Magazine ».

Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

He was deeply affected by the death of Artaban ( 226 ) and the downfall of the Arsacid dynasty, and does not appear to have sought the friendship of Ardeshir, founder of the Sassanian dynasty, although Samuel of Nehardea probably did so.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

Cadmium ( Latin cadmia, Greek καδμεία meaning " calamine ", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος Cadmus, the founder of Thebes ) was discovered simultaneously in 1817 by Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate.

Samuel Slater ( 1768 – 1835 ) is the founder of the Slater Mill.

In this role, Samuel is associated with the bands of musical ecstatic roaming prophets ( shouters-neb ' im ) at Gibeah, Bethel, and Gilgal, and some traditional scholars have argued that Samuel was the founder of these groups.

* Samuel Beckett: in 1930, while teaching at Trinity College Dublin, Samuel Beckett read a learned paper in French on a Toulouse author named Jean du Chas, founder of a movement called Concentrism.

A previous school, the Cooper Medical College of the University of Pacific ( founded 1858 ), entered a period of uncertainty in 1862 when its founder, Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper, died.

* April 28 – Sir Samuel Cunard, Canadian business man & founder of the Cunard Line ( b. 1787 )

* November 21 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian business, prominent Nova Scotian, founder of the Cunard Line ( d. 1865 )

* Samuel de Champlain ( 1570 ?– 1635 ), French explorer, administrator of New France, and founder of Quebec City

* December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec ( b. c. 1567 )

* Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg, a 12th-13th century rabbi and mystic, founder of Chasidei Ashkenaz

* Samuel Gompers ( 1850 – 1924 ), founder of the American Federation of Labor

Its founder, Samuel D. Waksal, was arrested in 2002 on insider trading charges for informing friends and family to sell their stock, and attempting to sell his own.

Samuel D. " Sam " Waksal, Ph. D., ( born 8 September 1947 ) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

* Samuel Smith Harris, ( 1841 – 1888 ), born in Autauga County, Presbyterian clergyman, founder and editor of Living Word magazine, and bishop of the Diocese of Michigan.

Samuel Seward, described as " a prosperous, domineering doctor and businessman ," was the founder of the S. S. Seward Institute, today a secondary school in the Florida Union Free School District.

Previous Masters of Trinity House have included the diarist Samuel Pepys and the Duke of Wellington, and Admiral William Penn ( father of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania ).

* Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Union general in American Civil War ; founder of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, later Hampton University

Albrecht von Haller is quoted in the footnote to paragraph 108 in the Organon of Medicine, the principal work by the founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann.

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.

He was promoted to Pasha and, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, became the founder of the modern Turkish state with the title Atatürk, the Father of Turkey.

Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman argues that, although the term intellectual property is in wide use, it should be rejected altogether, because it " systematically distorts and confuses these issues, and its use was and is promoted by those who gain from this confusion.

Fluxus founder George Maciunas, a friend of Ono's during the 1960s, admired her work and promoted it with enthusiasm.

The theory of British Israelism was also vigorously promoted by Herbert W. Armstrong in the 1950s founder and former Pastor General of the Worldwide Church of God.

He had been named Wonsu, ( Marshal ) in 1992 when North Korea founder Kim Il-sung was promoted to Dae Wonsu.

After giving birth to a still-born baby at age 19, she found spiritual comfort listening to the on-air sermons of Preston Bradley, a famous Chicago preacher and founder of the People's Church, a church which promoted the brotherhood of man.

After his death, the Franciscans promoted an iconographical program of diffusion of images of Bernardino, which was second only to that of the founder of the order.

She is also the founder and director of a now-defunct underwear company called Aware International, which promoted safe sex by producing clothing with secret pockets for storing condoms.

Alexander von Humboldt, brother of the founder William, promoted the new learning.

With the league's merger with the Lancashire Combination in 1982, they became founder members of the North West Counties League, winning the title in 1984 and 1987, with the latter triumph resulting in them being promoted to the Northern Premier League ( NPL ).

Jacob Engle is noted as one of the early leaders ( sometimes considered the " founder " of the BIC Church ) who promoted this position.

GNU / Linux is a term promoted by the Free Software Foundation ( FSF ), its founder Richard Stallman, and its supporters, for operating systems that include GNU software and the Linux kernel.

Y. Hatano promoted " manpo-kei pedometers " from 1985, after his research was accepted as proving that 10, 000 Steps A Day was the proper balance of caloric intake and activity-based caloric expenditure to maintain a healthy body, and Jiro Kato who is Yamasa Tokei Keiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo Japan founder, Akira and Yasuji Kato's Father, manufactured pedometers recognized to be accurate, and, named them, " manpo-meter " ( later known as " manpo-kei ") as the world first invented device to measure number of steps of walking.

A founder member of Women in Journalism, she was also a promoter of women ’ s rights, although after she converted to Islam, she publicly criticised some aspects of the ' sisterhood ' promoted by Western feminism.

* Kazimierz Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyist movement

Its founder, the Methodist layman and YMCA worker John R. Mott ( 1865-1955 ), promoted Protestant unity in 1895 as an organization joining youth from all Protestant churches to dedicate themselves to the ' evangelization of the world in this generation.

Power Line has promoted outsiders as candidates to be Dartmouth alumni trustees, such as T. J. Rodgers, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor.

Independiente promoted to first division for being one of the two founder members ( along with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires of the Federación del Fútbol Argentina.

She was promoted by Zdzisław Górzyński who recommended her to Tadeusz Sygietyński, director and founder of the Mazowsze-Polish State Folk Song and Dance Ensemble in 1951.

* John Cooke, future founder of Cooke Locomotive Works, is promoted to superintendent at American steam locomotive manufacturing company Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works.

In August 2003, company Vice President James E. Dible was promoted to chief executive officer, president and publisher, succeeding the retiring Michael Mead, a grandson of the company founder.

The highest dan ranks are sometimes reserved for the founder or leaders of a style and only high-ranking students can be promoted to them.

Contrary to the founding myth promoted by his sons, Hartford was not a founder of A & P.