Maria Hsia
Maria Hsia is a political figure who was convicted in early 2001, by a Federal District Court.
She was found guilty of laundering donations to the Democratic National Committee by the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California, during the 1996 U.S. presidential election.
The judge, Paul Friedman, denied a request from the U.S. Department of Justice that Ms. Hsia should serve prison time, and instead sentenced her to 90 days' home detention, probation, a fine, and community service.
Born in Taiwan, Hsia came to the United States as a student in 1973 and received a permanent resident visa in 1975.
Originally, she worked for immigration law firms in Los Angeles.
In 1982, Hsia began fund- raising for political candidates in state and local races.
In 1988, her work for then California Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy's Senate campaign introduced Hsia to national politics.
She eventually became a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee.
Numa T. Delouche
Numa T. Delouche( October 10, 1888 – July 7, 1965), was a Democrat from Cloutierville in south Natchitoches Parish, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives for one term between 1944 and 1948, along with Sylvan Friedman of nearby Natchez, Louisiana.
Delouche was married to the former Mary Vercher( 1903- 1979); their child, Numalee Pauline Delouche( 1928- 1934) died at the age of six.
The Delouches are interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Cemetery in Cloutierville.
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.
Charles Milton Cunningham
Charles Milton Cunningham( April 2, 1877 – May 17, 1936) was an attorney and newspaper publisher from Natchitoches in northwestern Louisiana, who served as a Democrat from 1915 to 1922 in the Louisiana State Senate.
His second son, W. Peyton Cunningham, also a Natchitoches lawyer, served from 1932 to 1940 in the Louisiana House of Representatives, alongside Leon Friedman of Natchez in southern Natchitoches Parish.
Tam Hollingshead
Tam Hollingshead( born c. 1955) is an American football coach.
Since early 2015 he has been Director of External Operations for the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, after serving there as Director of High School Relations for June Jones.
Hollingshead previously spent two seasons at Temple High School, and three seasons as the inaugural head coach at newly established Rockwall Heath High School.
From 1994 to 2002, Hollingshead was an assistant to R. C. Slocum at Texas A&M University, coaching tight ends and special teams.
Prior to that, he served as head coach at famed Permian High School of Odessa, Texas, guiding the Panthers to a Class 5A State championship in 1991 and amassing a 43 – 4 – 2 record in four seasons.
He had previously been an assistant coach at Permian, including the 1988 season covered in the book by H. G. Bissinger.
Hollingshead is a 1975 letterman at SMU and prepped at Brownwood High School under legendary coach Gordon Wood.
Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (first Sadigura rebbe)
Avrohom Yaakov Friedman (October 28, 1820 – September 12, 1883) was the first "Rebbe" of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty.
He lived in the palatial home constructed by his father, Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhyn, who fled to the Austrian town of Sadhora (Sadigura in Yiddish) due to persecution by the Russian Tsar.
He maintained his father's extravagant lifestyle while immersing himself in Torah study and mysticism.
He was considered the greatest Rebbe of his era, attracting hundreds of thousands of Jews as well as prominent Christian leaders to his court.
Columbus Short
Columbus Keith Short, Jr.( born September 19, 1982) is an American choreographer, actor, dancer and rapper.
He choreographed Britney Spears's Onyx Hotel Tour and worked with Brian Friedman( of" So You Think You Can Dance" fame).
He is best known for his roles in the films" Stomp the YardCadillac Records Armored", and" The Losers".
He previously starred as a series regular in the ABC drama" Scandal", as Harrison Wright.
On April 26, 2014, it was announced that Short would leave" Scandal" after three seasons with the show.
Paul L. Friedman
Paul L. Friedman( born February 20, 1944) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
He serves as secretary of the American Law Institute.
Drorah Setel
Drorah Setel is an American biblical scholar and feminist theologian from Buffalo, New York, who serves as a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Niagara Falls, NY.
A social activist and a spiritual caregiver, Setel is known as a co-writer, with Debbie Friedman, of the" Mi Shebeirach" sung in many Reform Jewish communities today.
Ellen Umansky has listed Setel as among the most prominent Jewish feminist theologians.
Setel is a divorced mother of three children.
Laurance Safford
Captain, U.S.N. Laurance Frye Safford (October 22, 1893 – May 15, 1973) was a U.S. Navy cryptologist.
He established the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and headed the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
His identification with the Naval effort was so close that he was the Friedman of the Navy.

Question: Were Tam Hollingshead and Paul L. Friedman of the same nationality?
Answer: yes