Charles Tjessem
Charles Tjessem( born 5 May 1971, in Sandnes) is a Norwegian chef, and winner of the 2003 Bocuse d' Or.
The victory was achieved over the French chef Frank Putelat by the smallest margin of points to date in the competition.
Tjessem is currently a chef and owner of the restaurant Charles& De in Sandnes.
He was coached for the Bocuse d' Or by Odd Ivar Solvold, and had previously trained under Bent Stiansen, and Eyvind Hellstrøm during two years at Bagatelle, worked as a daily manager for Gastronomisk Institutt in Stavanger, as a chef for the petroleum company Statoil, and was captain of the Norwegian national chef team in the period 2000 to 2004.
Tjessem ended his competitive career with parting criticism aimed at the arrangers of the International Exhibition of Culinary Art.
Tjessem published the book" Rett skal være rett" in 2006.
Earl Sloan
Doctor Earl Sawyer Sloan( born September 8, 1848, Zanesfield, Ohio, died September 13, 1923, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
His parents were Andrew Sloan and Susan Bass Clark Sloan.
Malcolm Howard (rower)
Malcolm Howard( born February 7, 1983) is a Canadian rower.
He was born in Victoria, British Columbia and graduated from Brentwood College School( Mill Bay, British Columbia) in 2001.
While at Brentwood he joined Canada's junior national team.
As part of the national team Howard won three World Rowing Championships medals including a silver in 2004 in the men's coxed fours, and a gold in 2007 in the men's eights.
He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's eights with Andrew Byrnes, Kyle Hamilton, Adam Kreek, Kevin Light, Ben Rutledge, Dominic Sieterle, Jake Wetzel and cox Brian Price.
The crew was later named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics he won a silver medal in the men's eight.
His teammates included Andrew Byrnes and Brian Price from the 2008 gold- medal winning crew.
The other six were Gabriel Bergen, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers, Douglas Csima, Robert Gibson and Conlin McCabe.
Howard attended Harvard, never losing a race in three years of rowing for the university.
He plans a career in medicine.
While studying for a Masters in clinical medicine at Oxford's Oriel College he was in the stroke seat for the victorious Oxford crew in the 2013 Boat Race.
He was the third Canadian to stroke a Boat Race crew, joining Kip McDaniel for Cambridge( 2006) and Mike Evans for Oxford( 1984).
In 2014 he served as president of the Oxford University Boat Club and, rowing in the 5 seat, rowed in the Boat Race's winning eight for the second year in a row.
Earlier in the Boat Race week it had been announced that Howard's 2008 Olympic champion men's eight crew was named to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
Howard has also rowed in pairs and single sculls.
His wife Erika is a former world- class rhythmic gymnast.
Morten Schakenda
Morten Schakenda( born 7 June 1966 in Gjerdsvika, Sunnmøre) is a Norwegian cook, known as one of the leading chefs in the country.
After working on the school ship Gann, he worked at Hotell Ulstein.
Later, he was leader of the Gastronomisk institutt in Stavanger for eight years, and made his debut for the national cooking team( 1997).
He worked in Oslo restaurants such as Bagatelle, Jans Mat og Vinhus, Terra Restaurant, D' Artagnan and Holmenkollen Restaurant.
After three years as the apprentice at Åpent Bakeri, he established a bakery in Lom( 2004).
Schakenda has, along with Stein Mortensen and Charles Tjessem, written" Med skjell fra gaffelen"( 2004).
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Douglas Csima
Douglas Csima( born 21 November 1985 in Mississauga) is a Canadian rower.
He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's eight with Andrew Byrnes, Gabriel Bergen, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers, Robert Gibson, Malcolm Howard, Conlin McCabe and Brian Price.
James Chaney
James Earl Chaney( May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964), from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Robert Gibson (rower)
Robert Gibson( born February 2, 1986 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian rower.
He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's eight with Gabriel Bergen, Andrew Byrnes, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers, Douglas Csima, Malcolm Howard, Conlin McCabe and Brian Price.
In June 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.
Andrew Byrnes
James Andrew Byrnes( born May 22, 1983) is a Canadian rower and Olympic gold medallist.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Ithaca, New York.
Byrnes is a 2005 graduate of Bates College in Maine, where he rowed for the Bates Rowing Team and earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.
He has won four World Rowing Championships medals, a bronze in 2006 in the men's coxed pairs with Derek O'Farrell and Brian Price; and a gold in 2007 in the men's eights, a silver in 2009 in Poznan, Poland in the men's eight and a bronze in Bled, Slovenia in 2011 in the men's eight.
He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's eights with Ben Rutledge, Kyle Hamilton, Malcolm Howard, Adam Kreek, Kevin Light, Dominic Sieterle, Jake Wetzel and cox Brian Price.
He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's eight.
His teammates included Malcolm Howard and Brian Price, who he won gold with in 2008.
The other six were Gabriel Bergen, Jeremiah Brown, Will Crothers, Douglas Csima, Robert Gibson and Conlin McCabe.

Question: Were Andrew Byrnes and Charles Tjessem from the same country?
Answer: no