Founder or Founders may refer to:

Places

* Founders Park, a stadium in South Carolina, formerly known as Carolina Stadium * Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Founders (''Star Trek''), the alien leaders of the fictional state and military superpower, the Dominion, in ''Star Trek'' * ''The Founder'' (newspaper), the student newspaper at Royal Holloway, University of London * '' The Founder'', a 2016 biographical feature film about McDonald's pioneer Ray Kroc

Companies and organizations

* Founder Group, a Chinese information technology and pharmaceutical conglomerate ** Founder Technology, a Shanghai subsidiary * Founders Brewing Company, a craft brewery located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States * Founders Ministries, Christian group in the United States * Worshipful Company of Founders, a livery company based in London, England, United Kingdom

Roles

Organizational founder An organizational founder is a person who has undertaken some or all of the formational work needed to create a new organization, whether it is a business, a charitable organization, a governing body, a school, a group of entertainers, or any other ...

, the person or group of persons responsible for creating an entity ** Founder, in entrepreneurship, the starter of a private or public company **

Philanthropist Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

, the starter of a charity * Founder, a metallurgist who operates a foundry * Founding Fathers - see list of national founders

Science and healthcare

* Founder, a hoof ailment caused by laminitis *

Founder effect In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. It was first fully outlined by Ernst Mayr in 1942, using ...

, genetic effect of expansion of isolated small populations

Other uses