Eric Eldred
Eric Eldred( born 1943) is an American literacy advocate and the proprietor of the unincorporated Eldritch Press.
Eric Eldred has been described as a former computer programmer and systems administrator, a Boston writer, and a New Hampshire- based technical analyst.
He is an independent scholar and first published online all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, as well as scanning many works for Project Gutenberg and others.
Eldred co-founded Creative Commons and served on its board of directors.
Michelle Thorne (Creative Commons)
Michelle Thorne( born January 15, 1985) is an American- born, Berlin, Germany- based Creative Commons activist.
She holds a BA" summa cum laude" in Critical Social Thought and German Studies from Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she wrote an honors thesis on authorship, originality, and American copyright law.
Thorne grew up in Heidelberg, Germany.
She worked as the international project manager for Creative Commons from 2007 to 2011 and joined the Mozilla Foundation as Global Event Strategist in 2011.
She is a founding member of the Awesome Foundation Berlin.
David A. Wiley
David A. Wiley is chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, Education Fellow at Creative Commons, and former adjunct faculty of instructional psychology& technology at Brigham Young University where he was previously an associate professor.
Wiley's work on open content, open educational resources, and informal online learning communities has been reported in many international outlets, including" The New York Times The Hindu MIT Technology Review", and" WIRED".
Wiley was also previously a member of the advisory committee of University of the People.
Hans Jákupsson Debes
Hans Jákupsson Debes( 1723–1769) was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1752 to 1769.
Hans Jákupsson came from Oyri and was married to the daughter of Prime Minister Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge, from whom he took over as Prime Minister.
Hilarion-Pit Lessard
Hilarion- Pit Lessard was a Canadian politician.
He was a five- term Member of the House of Commons and was a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.
Dorothy Gordon (activist)
Dorothy K. Gordon is a Ghanaian technology activist and development specialist.
She was the founding director general of the Ghana- India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT( AITI- KACE).
She left AITI- KACE in 2016.
She is also former Board Member of Creative Commons and currently serves on its Advisory Council.
Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge
Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge, died 1752 in Lambi, Faroe Islands.
Was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands from 1706 to 1752.
Lamhauge was father- in- law of Prime Minister Hans Jákupsson Debes, who followed him in the post.
Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet of Castle Bromwich
Sir Edward Devereux( c. 1544- c. 1622) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons, and was an English Baronet.
Henry Elsynge
Henry Elsynge( died 1656) was an English administrator, who acted as clerk of the House of Commons, and wrote on parliamentary procedure.
Lucie Pépin
Lucie Pépin( born September 7, 1936) is a Canadian nurse and former politician.
Pépin served in both the House of Commons and Senate.

Question: Were Michelle Thorne (Creative Commons) and Hans Jákupsson Debes of the same nationality?
Answer: no