| 100% | ONEIL | 5 | William ___, founder of Investor's Business Daily |
| 42% | SILENTPARTNER | 13 | Business investor, of a sort |
| 38% | PENN | 4 | Founder of Pittsburgh's state |
| 38% | JPMORGAN | 8 | Founder of U.S. Steel |
| 38% | CON | 3 | What Utah's Rick Koerber was found guilty of running in 2018 with his property investment business |
| 37% | MENES | 5 | Founder of Egypt's first dynasty |
| 37% | PERON | 5 | Founder of Argentina's Justicialist Party |
| 37% | RAMSESI | 7 | Founder of Egypt's 19th dynasty |
| 37% | RAYKROC | 7 | Founder of the McDonald's empire |
| 37% | GIANNI | 6 | Founder of Versace, Donatella's brother |
| 37% | BOEING | 6 | William —, Detroit-born founder in 1916 of an aircraft manufacturing company |
| 37% | BABAR | 5 | Founder of Celesteville, in children's lit |
| 37% | PAPP | 4 | Founder of New York's Public Theater |
| 37% | ICET | 4 | Founder of heavy metal's Body Count |
| 36% | PENN | 4 | William —, English Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America |
| 36% | OTIS | 4 | Baritone Williams who was a founding member of the Temptations |
| 36% | JUDAH | 5 | Founder of one of Israel's Twelve Tribes |
| 36% | JEBBUSH | 7 | Founder of the Foundation for Florida's Future |
| 36% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the first U.S. Shaker colony |
| 36% | RIPLEY | 6 | Founder of New York's Odditorium in 1939 |
| 36% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 35% | STANLEY | 7 | Founder of Radiator Springs, he's a steamer model |
| 35% | BEZOS | 5 | The founder of Amazon's surname |
| 34% | AMISH | 5 | Like the founder of Auntie Anne's, originally |
| 34% | WANAMAKER | 9 | Sam __, founder of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre |
| 34% | FAULKNER | 8 | William, author of 1936's Absalom, Absalom! |
| 34% | LORD | 4 | William Golding's "___ of the Flies" |
| 34% | FLIES | 5 | William Golding’s “Lord of the ___” |
| 34% | ECO | 3 | William of Baskerville's creator |
| 34% | ANNE | 4 | William of Orange's successor |