Robert Magee
Robert Armstrong Magee( May 21, 1864 – January 12, 1957) was a businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan.
He represented Moose Mountain in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1912 to 1921 as a Liberal.
He was born in Ottawa County, Quebec, the son of Francis Magee, and came to Wolseley, Saskatchewan in 1883 by train.
Magee served as a scout during the North- West Rebellion of 1885.
In 1891, he married Eleanor" Daisy" Campbell; the couple were married by Reverend A. Campbell, Eleanor's father.
He was the first mayor of Wolseley, also serving several other terms as mayor.
With his brother Richard and A.G. Thompson, he established the Magee and Thompson Company.
Magee also was a local justice of the peace, a sheriff and was registrar for the Moosomin judicial district from 1921 to 1939.
Magee and his wife later retired to Kelowna, British Columbia.
He died at Shaugnessy Hospital in Vancouver.
His former home in Wolseley has been designated a historical site.
Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas Stanislaus MacDonagh (1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader.
He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and Commandant of the 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, which fought in Jacob's biscuit factory.
He was executed for his part in the Rising at the age of thirty-eight.
MacDonagh was assistant headmaster at St. Enda's School, Scoil Éanna, and lecturer in English at University College Dublin.
He was a member of the Gaelic League, where he befriended Patrick Pearse and Eoin MacNeill.
He was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers with MacNeill and Pearse.
He wrote poetry and plays.
His play, When the Dawn is Come, was produced by the Abbey Theatre in 1908.
Other plays include Metempsychosis, 1912 and Pagans, 1915, both produced by the Irish Theatre Company.
Eoin MacNeill
Eóin John MacNeill( 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945) was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, Gaelic revivalist, nationalist, and politician who served as Minister for Education from 1922 to 1925, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Industries 1919 to 1921 and Minister for Finance January 1919 to April 1919.
He served as a Teachta Dála( TD) from 1918 to 1927.
He was a Member of Parliament( MP) for Londonderry City from 1918 to 1922 and a Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament( MP) for Londonderry from 1921 to 1925.
A key figure of the Gaelic revival, MacNeill was a co-founder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture.
He has been described as" the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history".
He established the Irish Volunteers in 1913 and served as its Chief- of- Staff.
He held the position at the outbreak of the Easter Rising but had no role in the Rising or its planning, which was carried out by infiltrators from the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
MacNeill helped countermand the Easter Monday uprising after learning about it and confronting Patrick Pearse, by placing a last- minute news advertisement advising Volunteers not to take part.
He was later elected to the First Dáil as a member of Sinn Féin.
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.
Louise Feltham
Louise Feltham( born 22 March 1935) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993.
She was a businessperson by career.
She was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Wild Rose electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party.
She served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Myron Thompson of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election.
J. B. Thompson
James Bogne" J. B." Thompson( 1829 – 18 July 1877) was one of the creators of the original laws of Australian rules football, one of the founders and the inaugural secretary of the Melbourne Football Club, a cricketer for Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club( MCC), and a journalist for Melbourne newspaper," The Argus".
Máire MacNeill
Máire MacNeill
( 7 December 1904 – 15 May 1987) was an Irish journalist, folklorist and translator.
She is best known for her magisterial study of the Irish harvest festival," The Festival of Lughnasa"( 1962, 1983).
She was born at Portmarnock, County Dublin, the second daughter of historian and political figure Eoin MacNeill and Agnes Moore.
After the family moved into the city she attended Muckross Park school.
She received her BA in Celtic Studies from University College Dublin in 1925.
From 1927 to 1932 she worked as a journalist and then as sub-editor on the Cumann na n Gaedheal newspaper," The Star".
She also assisted her father with his memoirs.
In 1935 Séamus Ó Duilearga invited her to work for the newly founded Irish Folklore Commission as office manager.
She trained in folklore methods at Uppsala University, Sweden, before starting research on the Lughnasadh festival.
She examined the 195 sites associated with the festival, the best- known of which is the Croagh Patrick pilgrimage, and also includes other sites such as Máméan.
MacNeill left the Folklore Commission in 1949 to go to Boston where she married poet John L. Sweeney.
Her Lughnasa study was published in 1962, for which she received her doctorate.
She re-settled in Ireland in 1967 and engaged in a number of translations from the Irish.
She died at her home in Corofin, County Clare.
James A. MacNeill
James A. MacNeill (July 22, 1854 – January 28, 1927) was a blacksmith, merchant and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
He represented 5th Prince in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1908 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1926 as a Conservative member.
He was born at Travellers Rest, Prince Edward Island, the son of Malcolm MacNeill and Isabel McDonald.
He sold farm equipment.
MacNeill was elected to the Summerside Town Council and was mayor from 1901 to 1904.
He also served as chairman of the Water Commission and chief of the Fire Department.
MacNeill served on the province's Executive Council as Commissioner of Public Works.
His sons Leonard and Daniel Francis and his grandsons Francis J. MacNeill and Hubert B. MacNeill also served in the provincial assembly.
Gregg Thompson (astronomer)
Gregg D. Thompson of Brisbane, Australia is an amateur astronomer and the executive director of the Dreamtech Designs and Productions company.
Pat Thompson
Arthur Frederick Thompson( 6 June 1920 – 9 October 2009), known as Pat Thompson, and A. F. Thompson, was an academic historian specialising in 19th- century British politics and the trade union movement.

Question: Were Eoin Macneill and J. B. Thompson of the same nationality?
Answer: no