| KAYKYSER | Founder of a musical 'Kollege' |
| KYSER | Kay of the "Kollege of Musical Knowledge" |
| KAY | "___ Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge" |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| DRBOB | Co-founder of A.A., familiarly |
| LEVI | Founder of a tribe of Israel (4) |
| BUDDHA | Founder of a group of spiritual beliefs, born Siddhartha Gautama (6) |
| SLADE | Felix ?, founder of a school of fine art in London in 1871 (5) |
| CUNARD | Samuel ?, Nova Scotia-born founder of a line of steam ships (6) |
| WISDEN | Founder of a sports almanac considered the "Bible of Cricket" (6) |
| ERICSSON | Lars Magnus ___, 19th-century Swedish inventor and founder of a telephone company that later developed into a multinational corporation (8) |
| ZOROASTER | Persian prophet, the founder of a dualistic religion set forth in the sacred writings of the Zend-Avesta (9) |
| PENN | William, English Quaker leader and founder of a colony that later became a U.S. state (4) |
