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Originally posted on October 6, 2021 @ 11:05 am

By | Updated on April 14, 2024

Reviewed by Rittika

List of national founders of over 200 countries in alphabetical order.

• 
  Afghanistan
  Ahmad Shah Durrani
• 
  Albania
  Skanderbeg
• 
  Algeria
  Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha
• 
  American Samoa
  Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III
• 
  Andorra
  Charlemagne
• 
  Angola
  Paulo Dias de novais
• 
  Anguilla
  Ronald Webster
• 
  Antigua and Barbuda
  Christopher Columbus
• 
  Argentina
  José de San Martín
• 
  Armenia
  King Argishti I
• 
  Aruba
  Betico Croes
• 
  Australia
  Sir Henry Parkes
• 
  Austria
  King Rudolf I of Habsburg
• 
  Azerbaijan
  Mammad Amin Rasulzade
• 
  Bahamas
  Lynden Pindling
• 
  Bahrain
  Usfur ibn Rashid
• 
  Bangladesh
  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
• 
  Barbados
  Errol Barrow
• 
  Belarus
  Alexander Lukashenko
• 
  Belgium
  Philip the Good
• 
  Belize
  George Cadle Price
• 
  Benin
  Oranmiyan
• 
  Bermuda
  Juan de Bermúdez
• 
  Bhutan
  Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal
• 
  Bolivia
  Liberator Simón Bolívar
• 
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Tvrtko I of Bosnia
• 
  Botswana
  Sir Seretse Khama
• 
  Brazil
  Pedro I
• 
  British Virgin Islands
  Christopher Columbus
• 
  Brunei
  Awang Alak Betatar
• 
  Bulgaria
  Khan Asparuh
• 
  Burkina Faso
  President Thomas Sankara
• 
  Burundi
  Cambarantama
• 
  Cambodia
  Jayavarman II
• 
  Cameroon
  Ruben Um Nyobe
• 
  Canada
  John A. Macdonald
• 
  Cape Verde
  Amílcar Cabral
• 
  Cayman Islands
  Christopher Columbus
• 
  Central African Republic
  David Dacko
• 
  Chad
  François Tombalbaye
• 
  Chile
  Bernardo O'Higgins
• 
  China
  Sun Yat-sen
• 
  Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Captain William Keeling
• 
  Colombia
  Simón Bolívar
• 
  Comoros
  Ahmed Abdallah Sambi
• 
  Republic of Congo
  Henry Morton Stanley
• 
  Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Patrice Lumumba
• 
  Cook Islands
  Captain James Cook
• 
  Costa Rica
  José María Castro Madriz
• 
  Croatia
  Ante Starčević
• 
  Cuba
  Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
• 
  Cyprus
  Archbishop Makarios III
• 
  Czech Republic
  František Palacký
• 
  Dagestan
  Imam Shamil
• 
  Denmark
  Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson
• 
  Djibouti
  Hassan Gouled Aptidon
• 
  Dominica
  Prime Minister Patrick John
• 
  Dominican Republic
  Juan Pablo Duarte
• 
  East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  José Alexandre "Kay Rala Xanana" Gusmão
• 
  Ecuador
  Juan José Flores
• 
  Egypt
  Saad Zaghlul
• 
  El Salvador
  Manuel José Arce
• 
  England
  King James VI & I
• 
  Equatorial Guinea
  Francisco Macias Nguema
• 
  Eritrea
  Isaias Afwerki
• 
  Estonia
  Konstantin Päts
• 
  Eswatini (Swaziland)
  Ngwane III
• 
  Ethiopia
  Amda Tseyon
• 
  Fiji
  Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
• 
  Finland
  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
• 
  Flanders
  Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg
• 
  France
  Hugh Capet
• 
  Gabon
  Léon M'ba
• 
  The Gambia
  Dawda Jawara
• 
  Georgia
  Ilia Chavchavadze
• 
  Germany
  Otto von Bismarck
• 
  Ghana
  Kwame Nkrumah
• 
  Gibraltar
  Agustin Huart
• 
  Greece
  Alexander the Great
• 
  Greenland
  Erik the Red
• 
  Grenada
  Eric Matthew Gairy
• 
  Guam
  Jesus Baza Dueñas
• 
  Guatemala
  Juan José Arévalo
• 
  Guernsey
  Sir Dawda
• 
  Guinea
  Ahmed Sékou Touré
• 
  Guinea-Bissau
  Amílcar Cabral
• 
  Guyana
  HE Cheddi Berret Jagan
• 
  Haiti
  Jean-Jacques Dessalines
• 
  Honduras
  Jose Cecilio del Valle
• 
  Hungary
  Árpád
• 
  Iceland
  Ingólfur Arnarson
• 
  India
  Mahatma Gandhi
• 
  Indonesia
  Sukarno
• 
  Iran
  Ruhollah Khomeini
• 
  Iraq
  Sumu-abum
• 
  Italy
  Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia
• 
  Côte d’Ivoire
  Félix Houphouët-Boigny
• 
  Jamaica
  Norman Washington Manley
• 
  Japan
  Emperor Jimmu
• 
  Jordan
  Abdullah II bin Hussein
• 
  Kazakhstan
  Alikhan Bukeikhanov
• 
  Kenya
  Jomo Kenyatta
• 
  Kiribati
  Sir Ieremia Tienang Tabai
• 
  North Korea
  Kim Jong-il
• 
  South Korea
  Syngman Rhee
• 
  Kosovo
  Ibrahim Rugova
• 
  Kuwait
  Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
• 
  Kyrgyzstan
  Askar Akayev
• 
  Laos
  Fa Ngum
• 
  Latvia
  Kārlis Ulmanis
• 
  Lebanon
  Bechara El Khoury, Riad El-Solh, and Emir Majid Arslan II
• 
  Lesotho
  King Moshoeshoe I
• 
  Liberia
  Joseph Jenkins Roberts
• 
  Libya
  King Idris Al-Sanusi
• 
  Liechtenstein
  Emperor Karl
• 
  Lithuania
  King Mindaugas
• 
  Luxembourg
  Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich
• 
  North Macedonia
  Krste Petkov Misirkov
• 
  Madagascar
  Philibert Tsiranana
• 
  Malawi
  Maravi Empire
• 
  Malaysia
  Tunku Abdul Rahman
• 
  Maldives
  Abu al-Barakat Yusuf al-Barbari
• 
  Mali
  Sundiata Keita
• 
  Malta
  Dom Mintoff
• 
  Marshall Islands
  Amata Kabua
• 
  Mauritania
  Moktar Ould Daddah
• 
  Mauritius
  Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
• 
  Mexico
  Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
• 
  Micronesia
  Andon Amaraich
• 
  Moldova
  Mircea Snegur
• 
  Monaco
  François Grimaldi
• 
  Mongolia
  Genghis Khan
• 
  Montenegro
  Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
• 
  Montserrat
  Father Ignacio Duarte Quirós
• 
  Morocco
  Mohammed V
• 
  Mozambique
  His Excellency Samora Machel
• 
  Myanmar (Burma)
  Aung San
• 
  Namibia
  Sam Nujoma
• 
  Nauru
  Hammer DeRoburt
• 
  Nepal
  Prithvi Narayan Shah
• 
  Netherlands
  Prince William I of Orange
• 
  New Zealand
  James Busby
• 
  Nicaragua
  Francisco Hernández de Córdoba
• 
  Niger
  Hamani Diori
• 
  Nigeria
  Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe
• 
  Niue
  Washington and Jefferson
• 
  Norfolk Island
  Captain James Cook
• 
  Norway
  Einar Gerhardsen
• 
  Oman
  Said bin Taimur
• 
  Pakistan
  Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
• 
  Palau
  Roman Tmetuchl
• 
  Palestine
  Yasser Arafat (Modern Palestine)
• 
  Panama
  Simón Bolívar
• 
  Papua New Guinea
  Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare
• 
  Paraguay
  José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
• 
  Peru
  Simón Bolívar
• 
  Philippines
  Andrés Bonifacio
• 
  Poland
  Duke Mieszko I
• 
  Portugal
  D. Afonso Henriques
• 
  Puerto Rico
  Pedro Albizu Campos
• 
  Qatar
  Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani
• 
  Romania
  Decebalus and Trajan
• 
  Russia
  Peter the Great
• 
  Rwanda
  Grégoire Kayibanda
• 
  Saint Barthélemy
  Bruno Magras
• 
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Milton Cato
• 
  Samoa
  Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II
• 
  San Marino
  Saint Marinus
• 
  Sao Tome and Principe
  Álvaro Caminha
• 
  Saudi Arabia
  Ibn Saud
• 
  Scotland
  Kenneth I
• 
  Senegal
  Léopold Sédar Senghor
• 
  Serbia
  Dobrica Ćosić
• 
  Seychelles
  James Mancham
• 
  Sierra Leone
  Thomas Peters
• 
  Singapore
  Lee Kuan Yew
• 
  Slovakia
  Great Moravia
• 
  Slovenia
  Primož Trubar
• 
  Solomon Islands
  Alvaro de Mendana de Neira
• 
  Somalia
  Somali Youth League
• 
  Somaliland
  Sultan Guled Abdi at Toon
• 
  South Africa
  Nelson Mandela
• 
  South Sudan
  John Garang
• 
  Spain
  Ferdinand II of Aragon
• 
  Sri Lanka
  Don Stephen Senanayake
• 
  Saint Kitts and Nevis
  Kennedy Simmonds
• 
  Saint Lucia
  John Compton
• 
  Sudan
  Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī
• 
  Suriname
  Johan Ferrier
• 
  Svalbard
  Harald Fairhair
• 
  Sweden
  Gustav I or Gustav Eriksson
• 
  Switzerland
  Ulrich Ochsenbein
• 
  Syria
  Nazim al-Kudsi
• 
  Taiwan
  Sun Yat-sen
• 
  Tajikistan
  Ismail Samani
• 
  National symbols of tanzania
  Julius Nyerere
• 
  Thailand
  King Mangrai
• 
  Togo
  Sylvanus Olympio
• 
  Tonga
  George Tupou I
• 
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Eric Williams
• 
  Tunisia
  Habib Bourguiba
• 
  Turkiye
  Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
• 
  Turkmenistan
  Atamyrat Niyazov
• 
  Turks and Caicos Islands
  The Lucayans and Pre-Columbian Settlement
• 
  Tuvalu
  Toaripi Lauti
• 
  Uganda
  Apollo Milton Obote
• 
  Ukraine
  Mykhailo Hrushevsky
• 
  United Arab Emirates
  Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
• 
  United Kingdom
  King James VI & I
• 
  United States of America
  George Washington
• 
  Uruguay
  José Gervasio Artigas
• 
  Uzbekistan
  Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov
• 
  Vanuatu
  Pedro Fernandez de Quiros
• 
  Holy See (Vatican City)
  Benito Mussolini
• 
  Venezuela
  Simon Bolivar
• 
  Vietnam
  Ho Chi Minh
• 
  Wales
  Maximus
• 
  Yemen
  Imam Ahmad bin Yahya Hamididdin
• 
  Zambia
  Kenneth Kaunda
• 
  Zimbabwe
  Canaan Sodindo Banana