Bram Ronnes
Bram Ronnes( born 17 November 1978 in Enschede) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands.
Ronnes competes in beach volleyball and forms a team with Emiel Boersma.
Together they finished in 9th position at the 2007 World Championships in Gstaad.
In a heavy competition with Jochem de Gruijter and Ronnes' brother Gijs they challenged to win a ticket for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Both teams achieved the national and international qualification limits, but as only two teams of the same country were able to qualify and the third combination of Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil was not questionable to take the first ticket one of the teams had to be eliminated.
Boersma and Ronnes eventually qualified to take part in China.
His father Frans Ronnes is mayor of Haaren.
Emiel Boersma
Emiel Boersma( born August 25, 1980 in Amsterdam) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands.
Boersma competes in beach volleyball and forms a team with Bram Ronnes.
Together they finished in 9th position at the 2007 World Championships in Gstaad.
In a heavy competition with Jochem de Gruijter and Ronnes' brother Gijs they challenged to win a ticket for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Both teams achieved the national and international qualification limits, but as only two teams of the same country were able to qualify and the third combination of Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil was not questionable to take the first ticket one of the teams had to be eliminated.
Boersma and Ronnes eventually qualified to take part in China.
Bram Ronnes
Bram Ronnes( born 17 November 1978 in Enschede) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands.
Ronnes competes in beach volleyball and forms a team with Emiel Boersma.
Together they finished in 9th position at the 2007 World Championships in Gstaad.
In a heavy competition with Jochem de Gruijter and Ronnes' brother Gijs they challenged to win a ticket for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Both teams achieved the national and international qualification limits, but as only two teams of the same country were able to qualify and the third combination of Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil was not questionable to take the first ticket one of the teams had to be eliminated.
Boersma and Ronnes eventually qualified to take part in China.
His father Frans Ronnes is mayor of Haaren.
Jochem de Gruijter
Jochem Pieter de Gruijter( born 18 April 1978 in Leidschendam, Zuid- Holland) is a male volleyball player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national men's team that won the gold medal at the 1997 European Championships on home soil( Eindhoven and Den Bosch).
De Gruijter made his international debut for the Netherlands in 1995 against Italy.
He obtained a total number of 120 caps for the national team.
Later on he started a career in beach volleyball, partnering Gijs Ronnes.
Gruijters
Gruijters or De Gruijter is a Dutch-language occupational surname.
A "gruijter" or "gruiter" is an archaic name for someone hulling grains to produce groats or for one using these for brewing.
Like most Dutch names with an "ij" digraph, the name is often spelled with a "y".
People with this surname include:
De Gruijter
Gijs Ronnes
Gijs Ronnes( born 10 June 1977 in Boxmeer, North Brabant) is a male beach volleyball player from the Netherlands.
He claimed the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, partnering Jochem de Gruijter.
His younger brother Bram is also a professional beach volleyball player in the international circuit.
His father Frans Ronnes is mayor of Haaren.
Emiel Boersma
Emiel Boersma( born August 25, 1980 in Amsterdam) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands.
Boersma competes in beach volleyball and forms a team with Bram Ronnes.
Together they finished in 9th position at the 2007 World Championships in Gstaad.
In a heavy competition with Jochem de Gruijter and Ronnes' brother Gijs they challenged to win a ticket for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Both teams achieved the national and international qualification limits, but as only two teams of the same country were able to qualify and the third combination of Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil was not questionable to take the first ticket one of the teams had to be eliminated.
Boersma and Ronnes eventually qualified to take part in China.
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.
Gijs Ronnes
Gijs Ronnes( born 10 June 1977 in Boxmeer, North Brabant) is a male beach volleyball player from the Netherlands.
He claimed the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, partnering Jochem de Gruijter.
His younger brother Bram is also a professional beach volleyball player in the international circuit.
His father Frans Ronnes is mayor of Haaren.
Palpu Pushpangadan
Palpu Pushpangadan( born 23 January 1944) is a former Director of the Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute( TBGRI) in Kerala.
He is also a former Director of the National Botanical Research Institute( NBRI), Lucknow and Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram.
He received the Padmashri Award from the Government of India in 2010.
Born on 23 January 1944 at Prakkulam in Kollam district in Kerala, Pushpangadan is known for his contribution to plant sciences.
He has got multidisciplinary training in cytogenetics, plant breeding, bioprospecting, biotechnology, conservation biology, ethnobiology, ethnopharmacology and pharmacognosy.
He has published about 317 research papers/ articles in various national and international journals, authored/ edited 15 books, contributed 41 chapters in books in taxonomy, plant breeding, conservation biology, biotechnology, ethnobiology, ethnopharmacology and IPR, etc.
Filed/ Awarded 85 patents in herbal drugs/ products jointly with other scientists.
15 of his patented products are already commercialized.

Question: Were Palpu Pushpangadan and Jochem De Gruijter of the same nationality?
Answer: no