Adélard Trottier
Adélard Charles Trottier( November 8, 1879 – November 29, 1955) was a physician, surgeon and politician in Ontario, Canada.
He represented Essex North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1943 as a Liberal.
The son of Narcisse Trottier and Marie Savage, he was born in Lacolle, Quebec.
He taught school for several years.
In 1908, Trottier married Beatrice Girard.
He served as president of the Medical Society of Ontario.
He was one of several Liberal MPPs elected to constituencies with large French- speaking populations in 1934.
Trottier was reelected in 1937.
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.
Mary Freehill
Mary Freehill( born 22 July 1946) is a Dublin City Councillor and was the 329th Lord Mayor of Dublin, serving during the Millennium Year from 5 July 1999 to 3 July 2000.
She is the Labour Party Councillor for the Kimmage- Rathmines Ward on Dublin City Council, representing the areas of Rathmines, Rathgar, Terenure, Harold's Cross, Crumlin, Kimmage, Dartry and Mount Argus Freehill was born and went to school in the town of Ballyconnell, County Cavan.
Her parents were Bernard Freehill, a building contractor& Kathleen Freehill( Nee Donohoe) of Daisy Hill, Ballyconnell.
Her second cousin is the famous baseball commentator Vin Scully.
Mary entered the City Council in 1977 to 1985 for Pembroke Ward and was re-elected for Rathmines Ward in 1991.
She has since been re-elected at each subsequent local election( 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019) for the same area, despite shifting ward boundaries.
As Lord Mayor of Dublin City, she awarded the Freedom of the City to Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and also to the rock band U2.
Bernard Trottier
Bernard Trottier( born March 13, 1965) is a former Canadian politician.
He was a Conservative Party member House of Commons of Canada who served from 2011 to 2015 representing the Toronto riding of Etobicoke — Lakeshore.
Trottier was elected in the 2011 federal election when he defeated the Leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff, who was also the Leader of the Official Opposition.
In February 2015, Trottier was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for La Francophonie.
Previously, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services in September 2013.
Jean-François Mertens
Jean- François Mertens( 11 March 1946 – 17 July 2012) was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist.
Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated games, epistemic models of strategic behavior, and refinements of Nash equilibrium( see solution concept).
In cooperative game theory he contributed to the solution concepts called the core and the Shapley value.
Regarding repeated games and stochastic games, Mertens 1982 and 1986 survey articles, and his 1994 survey co-authored with Sylvain Sorin and Shmuel Zamir, are compendiums of results on this topic, including his own contributions.
Mertens also made contributions to probability theory and published articles on elementary topology.
Judah A. Joffe
Judah Achilles Joffe( April 19, 1873 – September 16, 1966) was a Yiddish philologist.
Joffe was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire( now Dnipro, Ukraine).
He immigrated to the United States in 1891.
Among Joffe's noted works is his 1949 critical edition of the" Bovo- Bukh", the most popular chivalric romance in the Yiddish language.
He was also a co-editor, with Yudel Mark, of the" Great Dictionary of the Yiddish LanguageGroyser ṿerṭerbukh fun der Yidisher shprakh", גרויסער ווערטערבוך פון דער יידישער שפראך).
In addition, he researched the Slavic component in Yiddish, published musicological work about Russian composers, translated Yiddish, English, and French, and proposed regularized spelling for Yiddish.
Joffe was a co-founder of the American branch of YIVO, and active in its linguistics section together with other scholars of Yiddish including Max Weinreich and Shmuel Niger.
He died in New York City in 1966.
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Maurice Wilk
Maurice Wilk was a well- known American violinist who performed as a member of the Alma Trio from 1953 until his sudden death in 1963.
He was the original violinist in the Bach Aria Group during the late 1940s.
The other original members of the Bach Aria Group were Bernard Greenhouse( Cello); Menahem Pressler( Piano); and Robert Bloom( oboe).
During the 1950s he was a faculty member at Columbia University in New York City.
In memory of Wilk, Otto Luening wrote the Elegy for violin solo 4'.
Tamar Eilam
Tamar Eilam is an Israeli- American computer scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York whose work for IBM centers around DevOps and configuration management.
Eilam completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Her dissertation," Cost versus Quality: Tradeoffs in Communication Networks", was jointly supervised by Shlomo Moran and Shmuel Zaks.
She immigrated to the US in 2000, after completing her Ph.D., to join IBM Research.
In 2014 IBM named her as an IBM Fellow.
In 2016," Working Mother" magazine named her as one of their Working Mothers of the Year.
David Bigman
Rabbi David Bigman( born 1953) is a Modern Orthodox Rabbi.
Bigman is the head of Yeshivat Ma'ale Gilboa along with Rabbis Yehuda Gilad and Shmuel Reiner.
He helped found the Ein Hanatziv Midrasha for girls and used to head the Ein Tzurim Yeshiva.
Bigman developed the Revadim- layers- technique for the study of Talmud, combining traditional learning methods with academic research tools.
Shmuel Avital
Shmuel Avital( born 24 May 1951) is a former Israeli politician who served as a minister without portfolio responsible for social co-ordination from March 2001 until February 2002.

Question: Were Bernard Trottier and Shmuel Avital of the same nationality?
Answer: no