The phrase "founding figure" is both correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a person who played a significant role in establishing or creating something. Example: The founding figures of the United States, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, are often celebrated for their contributions to the nation's founding principles.
At Soka riverbanks, there are some archeological remain artifacts of the Jatinom village founding figure and an Islamic preacher.
Richard Bell is an artist, activist and founding figure of ProppaNOW, a Brisbane-based aboriginal art collective.
A founding figure in British pop art, Boty created subversive, witty paintings and collages until her premature death in 1966.
The founding figure of American legal realism is often said to be the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841 1935).
Mr. Weiner is rightly seen as a founding figure of Postminimalism's Conceptual arm, which includes artists like Douglas Huebler, Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt.
Mr. Pennebaker, a founding figure in the direct-cinema movement, never comments on his material, so you're left to wonder what in the world all that was about.
The topic for the day was the Imam Hussein and his daughter, Zainab, founding figures in Shiite history.
They were founding figures behind three of the world's most prominent museums — the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Each has its own currency, constitution, founding figures, flag and anthem.
If we only had a couch to take "The Talking Cure". It's apropos not only because Christopher Hampton's play, now at the Mark Taper Forum, features founding figures of psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and their sometime protege Sabina Spielrein.
Cagney co-founded Figure with his wife, June Ou, who is the company's chief operating officer.
