Sylvester Potts
Sylvester Potts was a singer and composer as well as an off and on member of The Contours and a one time member of The Four Sonics.
Songs that he has either composed or co-composed have been recorded by The Contours, Mamie Galore, Jimmy Ruffin and The Temptations.
Reginald Ruffin
Reginald Ruffin is an American football coach and former player.
He currently serves as the head football coach at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama.
Phoebe Stanley
Phoebe Stanley( born 17 October 1985) is an Australian rower.
She was a ten- time Australian national champion, including four victories as the stroke of Victorian state Queen's Cup winning eights.
She won medals at world championships and represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in rowing.
Edward Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley
Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley and 3rd Baron Eddisbury PC( 16 May 1839 – 18 March 1925) was an English peer.
Alice Cary Risley
Alice Cary Risley( 1847- 1939) of Columbia, Missouri, was a nurse during the American Civil War.
Her mother, Phoebe Farmer, was a cousin of Alice and Phoebe Cary.
William Weatherspoon
William Henry Weatherspoon( February 11, 1936 – July 17, 2005) was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his work for Motown Records in the 1960s.
He co-wrote" What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", an international hit for Jimmy Ruffin, and many other hit songs.
Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley
Henrietta Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley( née Dillon- Lee; 21 December 1807 – 16 February 1895), was a Canadian- born political hostess and campaigner for the education of women in England.
Thomas Ruffin Jr.
Thomas Ruffin Jr.( September 21, 1824 – May 23, 1889) was a Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1881 to 1883.
Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he was the fourth son of North Carolina Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin and Anne Kirkland Ruffin, and the grandson of state legislator Sterling Ruffin.
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
John Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley( 26 November 1766 – 23 October 1850), known as Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet, from 1807 to 1839, was a British peer and politician.
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, PC( 13 November 180216 June 1869), known as The Lord Eddisbury between 1848 and 1850, was a British politician.

Question: Were Phoebe Stanley and Reginald Ruffin of the same nationality?
Answer: no