City founders

Angkorian King

noble

Duke of Zähringen

Muslim general and Sahabah

apostle of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late 6th century

Italian noble and diplomat (1531-1591)

1st Governor of Hong Kong (1789-1856)

Margrave of Styria from 1122 to 1129

Roman consul 166 BC

Senegalese Sufi leader

First leader of the Sanhaja Berber dynasty of Zirids (r. 972–984)

8th-century Abbasid-era official and governor

monarch of Armenia

king of Âu Lạc from 257 BC to 179 BC

Swedish nobleman (1596–1674)

Umayyad prince and Governor of Egypt (died 705)

British army officer and administrator in colonial India

Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator

Athenian orator and general

Umayyad general (died 705)

founder of the British colony on Penang in 1786

Japanese poet and samurai

Ottoman military commander and governor

Evrenos or Evrenuz (died 1417, Yenice-i Vardar) was an Ottoman military commander and frontier lord active during the expansion of Ottoman power into the Balkans in the second half of the 14th century.

Abbasid governor and general (711-769)

British businessman

Roman knight and mercenary

founder of Tirana, Albania

Spanish explorer

Namibian politician (1785–1861)

Umayyad prince and general (died 750)

Afghan Rohilla warrior and tribal chief in 18th century Rohilkhand

Italian-born French military officer, explorer, and fur trader

Ruler of the Zenata tribes and Fes (died 1001)

The oikistes (), often anglicized as oekist or oecist, was the individual chosen by an ancient Greek polis as the leader of any new colonization effort. He was invested with the power of selecting a settling place, directing the initial labors of the colonists and guiding the fledgling colony through its hard early years. The oracle is also consulted during deliberations for choosing an oikistes. After he is appointed and directed to found a colony, he also consults the Delphic oracle. Due to his authority, the oikistes was often accorded his own cult after his death, and his name was preserve

8th-century Umayyad provincial governor

Byzantine official

Spanish explorer

Sultan of Kedah

Wali Sanga of Java

Belgian military commander

Polish nobleman (1609-1657)

Prime Minister of Albania (1839-1928)

Arab governor and general

A Saudi ruler found the largest ruling family in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Byzantine general

British Army general (1773-1841)

Textile engineer and founder of the Twente Steam Bleachworks in Goor, the Netherlands.

Jewish Zionist diaspora activist and co-founder of the first Zionist settlements in Israel/Palestine

Founder of Sandakan

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Iranian military leader

Antiphemus () was a man from ancient Greece from Rhodes who was the founder of Gela, around 690 BCE. The colony was composed of Rhodians and Cretans, the latter led by Entimus the Cretan, the former chiefly from Lindus, and to this town Antiphemus himself belonged.

Ouedraogo (also spelled Wedraogo or Ouidiraogo) was the son of Yennenga and progenitor of the Mossi Kingdoms. He founded the kingdom of Tenkodogo. His three sons were Rawa, Diaba Lompo, and Zoungourana.

10th-century Fatimid governor

15th-century Moroccan vizier