Charles G. Finney
Charles Grandison Finney( December 1, 1905 – April 16, 1984) was an American news editor and fantasy novelist, the great- grandson of evangelist Charles Grandison Finney.
His first novel and most famous work," The Circus of Dr. Lao", won one of the inaugural National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1935.
Steve Allen (singer)
Steve Allen( born Alan Stephenson) is a New Zealand singer and recording artist who found popularity as a singer during the 1970s.
He is also known for the hit song" Join Together", and the song for the television commercial," Use Your Nana"
Arthur Boyd
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd( 24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the late 20th century.
Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as" The Expulsion"( 1947 – 48), now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.
Boyd was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman.
The Boyd family artistic dynasty includes painters, sculptors, architects and other arts professionals, commencing with Boyd's grandmother Emma Minnie Boyd and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd, Boyd's father Merric and mother Doris;' She was the backbone of the family' recalls Boyd" without her, the entire family would have fallen apart", uncles Penleigh Boyd and Martin Boyd, and siblings Guy, David and Lucy.
His other sister Mary Boyd, also a painter, married first John Perceval, and then later Sidney Nolan, both artists.
Boyd's wife, Yvonne Boyd(" née" Lennie) is also a painter; as are their children Jamie, Polly, and Lucy.
In 1993, Arthur and Yvonne Boyd gave family properties comprising at Bundanon on the Shoalhaven River to the people of Australia.
Held in trust, Boyd later donated further property, artwork, and the copyright to all of his work.
John Stephenson (coachbuilder)
John G. Stephenson( 1809 in County Armagh, Ireland- 1893 in New Rochelle, N.Y.), an American coachbuilder, invented and patented the first streetcar to run on rails in the United States.
Stephenson also designed the New York and Harlem Railroad which was formally opened on 26 November 1832.
Twelve days later a horse- drawn streetcar built at Stephenson's works and named" John Mason" after the president of the railroad company, started the public service.
Stephenson is therefore remembered as the creator of the tramway.
Stephenson was the great- grandfather of Alan Stephenson Boyd, the first United States Secretary of Transportation.
Charlie Rose (politician)
Charles Grandison" Charlie" Rose III( August 10, 1939 – September 3, 2012) was a Democratic United States Congressman from North Carolina who served from 1973 to 1997.
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney( August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States.
He has been called" The Father of Modern Revivalism".
Finney was best known as an innovative revivalist during the period 1825– 1835 in upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.
Together with several other evangelical leaders, his religious views led him to promote social reforms, such as abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans.
From 1835 he taught at Oberlin College of Ohio, which accepted students without regard to race or sex.
He served as its second president from 1851 to 1866, during which its faculty and students were activists for abolition, the Underground Railroad, and universal education.
Thomas Alan Stephenson
Thomas Alan Stephenson FRS( 19 January 1898 – 3 April 1961) was a British naturalist, and marine biologist, specialising in sea anemones.
Alan Stephenson
Alan Stephenson( born 26 September 1944) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a defender.
He made a total of 386 appearances in the Football league for Crystal Palace, West Ham United, Fulham and Portsmouth.
At the end of his career, he played for Durban United in South Africa.
Asahel Nettleton
Asahel Nettleton( April 21, 1783 – May 16, 1844) was an American theologian and Evangelist from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening.
The number of people converted to Christianity as a result of his ministry was estimated by one biographer at 30,000.
He participated in the New Lebanon Conference in 1827, during which he and Lyman Beecher opposed the teachings of Charles Grandison Finney.
Alan Stephenson Boyd
Alan Stephenson Boyd( born July 20, 1922) is an American attorney and transportation executive who led several large corporations and also served the U.S. Government in various transportation- related positions.
He was the first United States Secretary of Transportation, appointed by Lyndon Johnson.
Additionally, he served in executive positions with the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a president of Amtrak.
Boyd is the second oldest living former U.S. Cabinet member, surpassed by George P. Shultz, and one of only two living members of Johnson's Cabinet, along with Ramsey Clark.
Boyd is also one of two living first officeholders of a cabinet position, along with Tom Ridge, who was the first Secretary of Homeland Security.

Question: Were Alan Stephenson Boyd and Charles Grandison Finney of the same nationality?
Answer: yes