Fred O'Connor
Fred O'Connor( born September 1, 1939) is a former American football coach and administrator whose career spanned more than 30 years at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels.
He served in coaching positions in the National Football League( NFL), Canadian Football League( CFL), and World Football League( WFL).
Most notably, O'Connor was the interim head coach of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers for the last seven games of the 1978 season, posting a mark of 1 – 6.
He also was the executive director of athletics at The Catholic University of America from May 1984 until April 1990 and served as the Cardinals head football coach for three seasons( 1987 – 1989), compiling an overall college football record of 17 wins and 13 losses.
Jeff Briggs
Dr. Jeffery L. Briggs( born March 10, 1957, in Florence, Alabama, United States) is the American founder and former President and CEO of Firaxis Games, a video game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States.
He was previously a game designer at MicroProse but left that company in 1996 along with Sid Meier and Brian Reynolds to form Firaxis Games.
Marcel Fässler (bobsledder)
Marcel Fässler( born 21 February 1959) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s.
Fässler won a gold medal in the four- man event with teammates Ekkehard Fasser, Kurt Meier and Werner Stocker at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Pete McCulley
Pete McCulley (November 29, 1931 – November 25, 1992) was an American football coach.
He served as the head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers for the first nine games of the 1978 season.
Winning only one game during that span, he was fired and replaced with Fred O'Connor.
Among other coaching jobs, McCulley served as backfield coach at the University of Houston from 1960 to 1961.
Werner Stocker (bobsledder)
Werner Stocker( born 14 August 1961) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1980s.
He won a gold medal in the four- man event with his teammates Ekkehard Fasser, Kurt Meier and Marcel Fässler at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Dylan Meier
Dylan Meier( March 16, 1984 – April 19, 2010) was an American football quarterback.
Meier played collegiality at Kansas State and professionally for the Dresden Monarchs of the German Football League and Rhinos Milano of the Italian Football League.
Meier was the younger brother of former NFL tight end Shad Meier and older brother of Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Kerry Meier.
Dylan Meier
Dylan Meier( March 16, 1984 – April 19, 2010) was an American football quarterback.
Meier played collegiality at Kansas State and professionally for the Dresden Monarchs of the German Football League and Rhinos Milano of the Italian Football League.
Meier was the younger brother of former NFL tight end Shad Meier and older brother of Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Kerry Meier.
Irene Bucher
Irene Bucher is a Swiss orienteering competitor.
She won a bronze medal in the" relay" at the World Orienteering Championships in Thun in 1981, together with Ruth Schmid, Annelies Meier and Ruth Humbel.
Shad Meier
Shadley Benjamin Meier( born June 7, 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri, is a former professional American football tight end.

Question: Were Shad Meier and Fred O'Connor of the same nationality?
Answer: yes