| DIEGORIVERA | A founder of Mexican muralism |
| HUNTER | Type of pocket watch with a hinged lid; a brand of wellington boot; or, Scottish anatomist considered a founder of scientific surgery (6) |
| ANGSTROM | Swedish physicist, a founder of spectroscopy, after whom a unit of length is named (8) |
| FIELDING | A founder of the Bow Street Runners who wrote Tom Jones and a parody of Richardson's Pamela titled Shamela (8) |
| MEIR | A founder of the state of Israel |
| AMPERE | French physicist, a founder of the study of electromagnetism |
| TRISTANTZARA | Romania-born French author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart best known as a founder of Dadaism (7,5) |
| SUMER | A founder of Rome raised in old region of Mesopotamia (5) |
| WEDGWOOD | Potter, abolitionist and inventor of the jasperware with which he replicated the Portland Vase whose son John was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society (8) |
| PLANCK | A founder of quantum mechanics who introduced the idea of quantised energy in 1900 (6) |
| MAPPIN | John ____ was a founder of a silverware company which later created jewellery for royalty |
| EZRA | Forename of a founder of imagism who was briefly engaged to pagan mystic Hilda Doolittle, aka H.D. (4) |
| ROSSETTI | Painter noted as a founder of the secret "PRB" society and for his idealised depictions of Alexa Wilding, Fanny Cornforth, Jane Morris, Lizzie Siddal and other models or muses he dubbed "stunners" (8) |
| ROMULUS | In mythology, a founder of Rome; twin brother of Remus (7) |
| PENN | Writer said to be a founder of state (4) |
| LYTTON | ____ Strachey was a founder of the Bloomsbury Group |
| ENGELS | A founder of communism |
| MILLAIS | Economist is following a founder of brotherhood |
| KIERKEGAARD | Soren ____ is considered a founder of existentialism |
| MAIR | A founder of the Canada First nationalist movement |
