| HARRAH | Founder of a famous Reno casino |
| KNOTT | Founder of a famous berry farm |
| FERRARI | Italian founder of a famous car company (7) |
| MOET | French founder of a famous champagne house in the 1730s (4) |
| CRUFT | Charles ---, founder of a famous dog show first held in 1891 (5) |
| REUTER | Paul Julius, Baron von --, founder of a famous international news agency (6) |
| PEEL | Founder of a network of "bobbies"; a baker's shovel; or, in printing, a pole used to hang up sheets to dry (4) |
| IYENGAR | Founder of a style of yoga who was celebrated in a Google Doodle last year (7) |
| WARNE | Founder of a company, now an imprint, that has published Beatrix Potter's illustrated books including The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tailor of Gloucester for some 120 years (5) |
| SOTHEBY | Lots of work for this famous founder of a business house (7) |
| ASHER | Son of Jacob and founder of a tribe of Israel in the Old Testament (5) |
| PARISHILTON | American media personality who is a great-granddaughter of the founder of a major hotel group (5,6) |
| BUDDAA | Founder of a religion of spiritual purity (6) |
| EUCLID | Greek founder of a system of geometry (6) |
| SINK | Founder of a place of iniquity |
| TRADER | Supposed occupation of Joe Coulombe, founder of a grocery chain |
| DRBOB | Co-founder of A.A., familiarly |
| BIRLA | Last name of Seth Shiv Narayan, founder of a conglomerate |
| LEVI | Founder of a tribe of Israel (4) |
| BUDDHA | Founder of a group of spiritual beliefs, born Siddhartha Gautama (6) |
