William Henry Gibbs
William Henry Gibbs( November 29, 1823 – November 5, 1902) was a manufacturer and political figure in Ontario, Canada.
He represented Ontario North in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1872 to 1874 and from 1876 to 1878.
He was born in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, the son of Thomas Gibbs and Caroline Tate who had gone there from Devonshire, England in 1819.
He was educated in Montreal.
With his brother Thomas Nicholson, he built a grist mill south of Oshawa.
The two brothers built other mills and also operated a distillery and a tannery.
Gibbs was also president of the Oshawa Cabinet Company.
He served on the town council for Oshawa, also serving as reeve and later mayor.
He was also deputy reeve for Whitby Township and warden for Ontario County.
In 1845, he married Frances Colton.
Gibbs was defeated by Adam Gordon for the federal seat in 1874.
Gibbs was reelected in an 1876 by-election held after Gordon's death.
After his defeat by George Wheler in 1878, he made two more unsuccessful bids for reelection in 1880 and 1882.
He died in Toronto at the age of 78.
Austin Gibbs
Austin Gibbs is an American musician.
He was born in Houston, TX on December 17, 1986, and spent much of his childhood in Southern California.
After a move to Mesa, AZ in 2001 he began playing live shows with a group of friends and collectively they were known as Austin Gibbs and The States.
They released a self- recorded demo in 2007.
In the spring of 2008, Austin Gibbs and The States won a battle of the bands to perform on the main stage at the Circle K Tempe Music Festival, one of Arizona ’s largest music festivals.
He took the stage in front of a crowd of 12,000 directly before the headlining act, the Gin Blossoms.
Austin Gibbs and the States went on to perform Bamboozle Left with the likes of the All American Rejects, Paramore and Jimmy Eat World.
In the fall of 2008, Austin continued to write music while touring as a member of the band Brighten.
In January 2009, Austin recorded his self- titled EP with Bob Hoag( Gin Blossoms, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, The Format, The Ataris) at Flying Blanket Studios in Mesa, AZ.
The EP was released in April 2009.
His second EP titled," 1986" was released on September 28, 2010, named after the year of his birth.
On May 17, 2011, he released his first full- length album titled" Charlie" after his brother, Charlie Gibbs.
He has since then toured with The Maine and Augustana on the LG One's to Watch tour in Spring 2011.
Gibbs will be touring will This Century on the Endless Summer Tour, kicking off on July 25, 2012.
John Dixon Gibbs
John Dixon Gibbs( 1834–1912) was a British engineer and financier who, together with Lucien Gaulard, is often credited as the co-inventor of the AC step- down transformer.
The transformer was first demonstrated in 1883 at London's Royal Aquarium.
At the time the term" transformer" had not yet been invented, so instead it was referred to as a" secondary generator".
Although he is usually credited equally with Gaulard, Gibb's role in the invention appears to have been more that of a financial backer and businessman.
Although the underlying physics of the transformer, mainly Faraday's law of induction, had been known since the 1830s, transformers became viable only after the introduction of Gaulard and Gibbs's transformer design in 1883.
The breakthrough was to build an iron transformer core which could act as a magnetic circuit.
At the time, their invention was seen as overcomplicated since it contained a movable armature.
It caught the attention of Sir Coutts Lindsay, who used it to power the Grosvenor Gallery, which was one of the first lighting systems in Britain powered by a central generating station.
In 1885 Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky secured a patent on a similar design, using laminated sheets of metal to reduce eddy currents.
Information on an exhibition of Gibbs and Gaulard's transformer in Turin, Italy in 1884 was published in 1885 and caught the attention of George Westinghouse.
In the summer of 1885 Westinghouse bought the American rights for Gibbs and Gaulard's design and ordered that several transformers from Gibbs and Gaulard be purchased and shipped to his factory in Pittsburgh.
Westinghouse then asked the engineer William Stanley, Jr. to design an electric lighting system using them.
Stanley subsequently greatly improved on Gibbs and Gaulard's design and is often credited in their place.
John Dixon Gibbs had his work patented under German patent no. 28947, a patent also recognized in Great Britain.
The patent was disputed by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti.
Following patent litigation, Gibbs and Gaulard lost the patent.
Gibbs appealed the suit, taking the case all the way to the House of Lords, where he again lost.
He was financially ruined in the process.
Samand Siabandov
Samand Aliyevich Siabandov( 20 November 1909 – 14 November 1989) was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish – Yazidi origin who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.
Elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1946, Siabandov served two non-consecutive terms in the Supreme Soviet as a deputy from the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and was a Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Armenian SSR.
He was later elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR.
He was the author of two published poems in the Kurdish language and an Armenian- Kurdish dictionary.
Thomas Nicholson
Thomas Nicholson is a health educator and drug policy specialist.
He was reportedly included on President Obama's shortlist of candidates for the appointment as the nation's" drug czar" and was endorsed for the position by numerous public health groups.
He has coordinated the DRUGNET Study, an on- line survey of adult drug users.
He earned his M.P.H. in at the University of Texas School of Public Health and his Ph.D. in at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
He also earned an M.A.Ed. in counseling from Western Kentucky University.
Philip Gibbs
Sir Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs KBE( 1 May 1877 – 10 March 1962) was an English journalist and prolific author of books who served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War.
Four of his siblings were also writers, A. Hamilton Gibbs, Francis Hamilton Gibbs, Helen Hamilton Gibbs, and Cosmo Hamilton, as was his father Henry James Gibbs, and his own son, Anthony.
Thomas Nicolson, 4th Lord Napier
Thomas Nicholson of Carnock, 4th Lord Napier( 14 January 1669 – 9 June 1688) was a Scottish peer.
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs
Thomas Nicholson Gibbs,( March 11, 1821 – April 7, 1883) was a Canadian parliamentarian.
Born in Terrebonne, Lower Canada( now Quebec), the eldest son of Thomas Gibbs and Caroline Tate, his family moved to Oshawa, Upper Canada( now Ontario) in 1832.
He became one of the most successful business men in Canada.
In 1867, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Ontario South.
A Liberal- Conservative, he was re-elected in 1872.
He was defeated in 1874 but was re-elected in an 1876 by-election.
However, he was defeated again in 1878.
In 1873, he was the Secretary of State for the Provinces, Superintendent- General of Indian Affairs, and the Minister of Inland Revenue.
In 1880, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Newmarket, Ontario.
He died in office in 1883.
Thomas Nicholson (architect)
Thomas Nicholson( 1823–1895) was a British architect.
He is known for designing the Church of St Michael and All Angels in Forden, Powys in Wales.
Among his other churches were St James, Swansea and St Gabriel, Swansea.
Edwin Bidwell Wilson
Edwin Bidwell Wilson( April 25, 1879 – December 28, 1964) was an American mathematician and polymath.
He was the sole protégé of Yale's physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs and was mentor to MIT economist Paul Samuelson.

Question: Were Thomas Nicholson Gibbs and Samand Siabandov of the same nationality?
Answer: no