Edward Branson
Edward B. Branson was an American geologist and paleontologist.
He worked at the University of Missouri.
Tatiana Dobrolubova
Tatiana Dobrolubova( 1891 – 1972) was a Russian geologist and paleontologist.
Jacques Castelot
Jacques Castelot( 11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor.
He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982.
His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas.
Élie Bertrand
Élie Bertrand( 1713–1797) was a Swiss geologist and naturalist.
André Castelot
André Castelot, born André Storms( 23 January 1911, Antwerp – 18 July 2004, Neuilly- sur- Seine), was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium.
He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms- Castelot, and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot.
He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people.
August Foerste
August F. Foerste( 1862–1936) was an American geologist and paleontologist.
John Strachey (civil servant)
Sir John Strachey (5 June 1823 – 19 December 1907) was an English civil servant in British India.
Elizabeth Soshkina
Elizabeth Soshkina( 1889–1963) was a Soviet geologist and palaeontologist.
John Strachey (geologist)
John Strachey FRS( 10 May 1671 – 11 June 1743) was a British geologist and topographer.
He was born in Chew Magna, England.
He inherited estates including Sutton Court from his father at three years of age.
He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford and was admitted at Middle Temple, London, in 1688.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1719.
He introduced a theory of rock formations known as Stratum, based on a pictorial cross-section of the geology under his estate at Bishop Sutton and Stowey in the Chew Valley and coal seams in nearby coal works of the Somerset coalfield, projecting them according to their measured thicknesses and attitudes into unknown areas between the coal workings.
The purpose was to enhance the value of his grant of a coal- lease on parts of his estate.
This work was later developed by William Smith.
In addition to his map making and geological interests he had several other publications including" An Alphabetical List of the Religious Houses in Somersetshire( 1731)".
He died in Greenwich, London.
He had married twice; firstly Elizabeth Elletson, with whom he had 18 children( see picture of 8 of them) and secondly Christina Staveley, with whom he had a further one child.
Christo Pimpirev
Christo Pimpirev is a Bulgarian scientist( geologist) and Polar explorer.

Question: Are John Strachey (Geologist) and André Castelot from the same country?
Answer: no