| 100% | RUDOLF | 6 | Leopold, founder of an eponymous Viennese gallery |
| 57% | KNOTT | 5 | Founder of an eponymous berry farm |
| 54% | PENNEY | 6 | J. C. ___, founder of an eponymous retail chain |
| 43% | DOLE | 4 | Founder of an Oahu plantation |
| 43% | BUDDHA | 6 | Founder of an Eastern religion |
| 41% | EIFFEL | 6 | Designer of an eponymous tower |
| 39% | ELO | 3 | Arpad ___, creator of an eponymous chess rating system |
| 38% | HANDLEYPAGE | 11 | Frederick —, English founder of an aircraft manufacturing company in 1909 |
| 38% | RICARD | 6 | Paul —, Marseille-born creator of an eponymous pastis in 1932 |
| 38% | STIEGLITZ | 9 | Founder of Gallery 291, married Georgia O'Keeffe |
| 38% | CADMUS | 6 | Founder of Thebes; gave the Greeks an alphabet |
| 37% | PLATO | 5 | Founder of an early institution of higher learning in the Western world (c.385BC) |
| 36% | INCA | 4 | Member of an empire founded by Manco Capac |
| 36% | ROWBOTTOM | 9 | Mathematician Frederick with an eponymous type of cardinal numbers |
| 36% | LONGJOHNS | 9 | Literary character with an eponymous chain of seafood restaurants |
| 35% | IMBEINGFRAMED | 13 | Start of an artist's argument with a gallery owner? |
| 35% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th-century |
| 35% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th century |
| 35% | OSMAN | 5 | Founding ruler of an Anatolian empire |
| 34% | SIKH | 4 | A member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th century |
| 33% | ACADEMY | 7 | __ of Fine Arts, Viennese art school founded 1692 |
| 33% | SARA | 4 | ___ Blakely, American billionaire businesswoman, and founder of Spanx, an American intimate apparel company |
| 33% | IONA | 4 | Island in the Inner Hebrides; site of an abbey founded by St Columba |
| 33% | EXHIBIT | 7 | Collection of objects at an art gallery or museum |
| 31% | SAKICHI | 7 | ___ Toyoda, inventor of an automated fabric-weaving device who is the father of Toyota's founder |
| 31% | GRANTLAND | 9 | ___.com (website founded by Bill Simmons as an offshoot of ESPN.com) |
| 30% | DEAR | 4 | "___ Evan Hansen," musical with an eponymous film adaptation that is one of the highest-grossing Broadway musicals |
| 30% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 30% | CARMELITE | 9 | In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of an order of mendicant friars founded in the 12th century |
| 30% | SMITHANDWESSON | 14 | *Eponymous founders of a Massachusetts-based firearms manufacturer |