Arkady Raikin
Arkady Isaakovich Raikin( – 17 December 1987) was a Soviet stand- up comedian, theater and film actor, and stage director.
He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century.
Morten Søgård
Morten Søgård( born December 3, 1956) won the Men's World Curling Championships( Lausanne, Switzerland) and the Winter Olympic Games Curling( Calgary, Canada) competitions in 1988.
Eigil Ramsfjell, skip, Sjur Loen, Morten Soegaard, Bo Bakke and Gunnar Meland( alt.) played on the team in both competitions.
Morten Soergaard is currently working as a Sales and Marketing Director for ErgoGroup.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Zhvanetsky (born 6 March 1934, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian writer, satirist and performer best known for his shows targeting different aspects of the Soviet and post-Soviet everyday life.
Zhvanetsky's monologues and sketches were performed by Arkady Raikin, Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko.
He joined the Union of Soviet Writers in 1978 and has authored several books.
Konstantin Raikin
Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin( July 8, 1950, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian actor and theatre director, the head of the Moscow Satyricon Theatre( since 1988).
Konstantin Raikin has been honoured with the titles Meritorious Artist of Russia( 1985) and the People's Artist of Russia( 1993).
Among his accolades are the Russian State Prize( 1995), the Order of Merit for the Fatherland( III, IV – 2000, 2010) and the Golden Mask award( 1995, 2000, 2005, 2008).
He is the son of Arkady Raikin, the legendary Soviet actor and stand- up comedian.
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.
Harald Sigvard Bakke
Harald Sigvard Bakke( born 30 June 1882) was a Norwegian teacher and politician.
He was born in Halden to farmers Johan Edvard Bakke and Tilla Bolette Nordby.
He graduated as cand.philol. in 1912, and lectured at various secondary schools, including Sandnes, Stavanger, Halden and Oslo.
He was elected representative to the Storting for the periods 1925 – 1927, 1928 – 1930, 1931– 1933 and 1934 – 1936, for the Conservative Party.
He was a member of the municipal council of Halden from 1916 to 1934.
Naum Birman
Naum Borisovich Birman (1924—1989) was a Soviet director of theater and cinema, screenwriter.
Cavalier of the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986).
He worked as an actor and director in the Leningrad theaters, director of the productions of Arkady Raikin.
He was buried at the Memorial Cemetery in Komarovo near Leningrad.
First wife (1928—2001), actress of Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater.
Son Anatoly Popov, actor.
Since the second marriage there is a son (born 1966).
Wave of Sorrow
Wave of Sorrow is an album by Mikhail Alperin and Arkady Shilkloper recorded in 1989 and released on the ECM label.
Far Rainbow
Far Rainbow is a 1963 science fiction novel by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe.
Alf Bakke
Alf Bakke( born December 13, 1927 in Arendal) is a forest researcher.
He received his doctorate in entomology in 1968.
Bakke worked as a forest research manager, and then in 1958 he was employed by the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute as a research manager.
In 1980 he became a professor at the Norwegian College of Agriculture.
Bakke was involved in developing the bark beetle trap in the 1970s, which is based on the use of a pheromone to attract European spruce bark beetles.
The purpose was to reduce the extensive bark beetle attacks on spruce forests.
Bakke wrote several books and many articles in his subject area.
His research articles were published in a variety of journals.
He resides in Ås.

Question: Did Arkady Raikin and Alf Bakke have the same nationality?
Answer: no