| 100% | CARDEW | 6 | Cornelius —, English composer; co-founder of the Scratch Orchestra in 1969 |
| 43% | NEVILLE | 7 | & 12A Founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra in 1958 |
| 40% | WILLIAMPENN | 11 | English-born Quaker who founded the city of Philadelphia in 1682 (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers in America [1736] |
| 39% | DOLE | 4 | Founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901 |
| 39% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the first Shaker colony in America |
| 38% | DUKEELLINGTON | 13 | Composer of the jazz classic "Mood Indigo" who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969: 2 wds. |
| 38% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 37% | BRUCELEE | 8 | Founder of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in the 1960s |
| 37% | MELOS | 5 | English name of the Greek island in the SW Aegean Sea where the Venus de Milo was found |
| 37% | ELGAR | 5 | English composer of the symphonic study "Falstaff" |
| 37% | HOXHA | 5 | Enver —, a founder of the Albanian Communist party in 1941 |
| 37% | GRAMSCI | 7 | Antonio —, a founder of the Italian Communist Party in 1921 |
| 37% | BUTHELEZI | 9 | Mangosouthu —, founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa |
| 37% | HOXHA | 5 | Enver -, a founder of the Albanian Communist party in 1941 |
| 36% | GUSTAVHOLST | 11 | English composer of the opera "The Perfect Fool" |
| 36% | BRIANENO | 8 | Co-composer of the "Prophecy Theme" in "Dune" |
| 36% | HOLST | 5 | Gustav —, English composer of The Planets suite |
| 36% | SITHOLE | 7 | Ndabaningi —, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union who died in 2000 |
| 36% | PENN | 4 | William —, English Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America |
| 35% | RODGERS | 7 | William —, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 |
| 35% | MAUSOLEUM | 9 | Wonder of the Ancient World found in Halicarnassus |
| 35% | NKOMO | 5 | Joshua —, founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who died in 1999 |
| 35% | MARY | 4 | & 25A Founder of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association who died in 2001 |
| 35% | TYLER | 5 | Wat —, leader of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381 |
| 35% | SCREECHED | 9 | One of the longest one-syllable words in English |
| 35% | TYLER | 5 | Wat -, leader of the English Peasants' Revolt in 1381 |