| 100% | MENCKEN | 7 | H L —, Baltimore-born writer; co-founder of magazine The American Mercury in 1924 |
| 32% | OBAMA | 5 | With Springsteen, co-host of the podcast "Renegades: Born in the USA" |
| 32% | RODGERS | 7 | William —, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 |
| 31% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Pen name of the American writer born Samuel Clemens: 2 wds. |
| 31% | KURTVONNEGUT | 12 | American novelist in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame who was born in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the American Shakers |
| 31% | ANN | 3 | With 12-Down, founder of the American Shakers (born 2/29/1736) |
| 31% | EMMA | 4 | ___ Gee, co-founder of the AAPA, which popularized the term "Asian American" |
| 30% | ALICEWALTON | 11 | American heiress and daughter of Walmart founder who is amongst the top ten richest women in the world: 2 wds |
| 30% | CLARA | 5 | Founder of the American Red Cross, ___ Barton |
| 30% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers in America [1736] |
| 30% | RUSHTON | 7 | Willie —, satirist, cartoonist and co-founder of Private Eye magazine who died in 1996 |
| 30% | TONE | 4 | Wolfe —, co-founder of the Society of the United Irishmen who died in 1798 |
| 30% | SEALE | 5 | Texan Bobby, co-founder of the Black Panthers and defendant in the "Chicago Eight" |
| 30% | ALVINAILEY | 10 | Founder of the American Dance Theater: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 30% | DOLE | 4 | Founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901 |
| 30% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the first Shaker colony in America |
| 30% | DEANNA | 6 | Brett Favre's wife and co-founder of the Favre 4 Hope Foundation in 1995 |
| 30% | TILAK | 5 | Bal Gangadhar —, co-founder in 1916 of the All India Home Rule League |
| 29% | GORDIEHOWE | 10 | Six-time winner of the N.H.L.'s Art Ross Trophy, born in Saskatchewan |
| 29% | ELLE | 4 | American magazine founded in France |
| 29% | FITT | 4 | Gerry —, co-founder and first leader of the SDLP in Northern Ireland in 1970 |
| 29% | ROAR | 4 | Online magazine founded as a blog in 2010 that is now a self-declared "activist-run journal of the radical imagination" |
| 29% | KUBLAI | 6 | __ Khan; founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China |
| 29% | EDS | 3 | Co. founded by H. Ross Perot in 1962 |
| 29% | SNAPPY | 6 | ___ Gifts, co. founded in 2015 which last year was listed in Forbes as one of the 10 Most Promising Young Israeli Startups in NY |
| 29% | RICHARD | 7 | & 9A Dublin-born writer who co-founded The Spectator magazine with Joseph Addison |
| 29% | BRUCELEE | 8 | Founder of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in the 1960s |
| 29% | LAURENEJOBS | 11 | American businesswoman and founder of Emerson Collective who is amongst the top ten richest women in the world: 2 wds. |