| 100% | PTOLEMY | 7 | Macedonian founder of Egyptian kingdom in 305 BC |
| 35% | TRIPOLI | 7 | Capital of Libya which was founded in 7th century BC by the Phoenicians |
| 35% | GREAT | 5 | Alexander the ___, Macedonian king who founded the city of Alexandria during Ancient Egyptian times |
| 33% | RURITANIA | 9 | Kingdom in "The Prisoner of Zenda" |
| 33% | DIDO | 4 | Founder of Carthage, in myth |
| 32% | RIPLEY | 6 | Founder of New York's Odditorium in 1939 |
| 32% | DOLE | 4 | Founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901 |
| 32% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the first Shaker colony in America |
| 32% | BABAR | 5 | Founder of Celesteville, in children's lit |
| 31% | ROHAN | 5 | Kingdom in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 31% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 31% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers in America [1736] |
| 31% | GYPSUM | 6 | Found in plaster of paris |
| 31% | REZASHAH | 8 | Founder of Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran in 1925 |
| 31% | CADIZ | 5 | Port in SW Spain founded about 1100 BC |
| 31% | CADIZ | 5 | Port in SW Spain founded around 1100 BC |
| 31% | KUBLAI | 6 | __ Khan; founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China |
| 31% | LINKLATER | 9 | John __, founder of international law firm in 1838 |
| 31% | HILTON | 6 | Conrad, founder of global hotel chain in 1919 |
| 30% | HOTEL | 5 | Found in a game of Monopoly |
| 30% | BRUCELEE | 8 | Founder of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in the 1960s |
| 30% | SNOUTS | 6 | Found in the middle of pigs' faces |
| 29% | HALLE | 5 | Charles —, 19th-century founder of a symphony orchestra in Manchester |
| 29% | OLCOTT | 6 | Henry Steel —, a founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875 |
| 29% | HOXHA | 5 | Enver —, a founder of the Albanian Communist party in 1941 |
| 29% | SPODE | 5 | Josiah —, 18th-century founder of a pottery manufactory in Stoke |
| 29% | GRAMSCI | 7 | Antonio —, a founder of the Italian Communist Party in 1921 |
| 29% | BUTHELEZI | 9 | Mangosouthu —, founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa |
| 29% | SPODE | 5 | Josiah —, 18th-century founder of a pottery factory in Stoke |
| 29% | STILL | 5 | Andrew Taylor —, American founder of osteopathy who died in 1917 |