Włodzimierz Spasowicz
Włodzimierz Spasowicz or Vladimir Spasovich( 1829- 1906) was a Polish- Russian lawyer often acclaimed as the most brilliant defense attorney of Imperial Russia.
Spasovich went to school in Minsk and studied law in St. Petersburg University, where he later became a professor.
When the government was persecuting some of his students in 1861, Spasovich resigned his professorship in protest.
Two years later, his textbook on criminal law was banned.
After the Judicial reform of Alexander II he emerged as a leading trial lawyer.
He took part in many of the sensational political trials of the 1860s and 1870s, including the Nechayev process.
Fetyukovich, a defense attorney in Dostoyevsky's" Brothers Karamazov", was apparently based on Spasovich.
Spasovich was one of those who tried to bring Russia and Poland together.
He founded in St. Petersburg the Polish- language newspaper" Kraj" and" advocated the concept of Polish cultural autonomy within Russia" in the Warsaw periodical" Atheneum".
As a literary historian, Spasovich authored several articles about the literary ties between Russia and Poland as well as a concise account of Polish literary history.
Halina Bielińska
Halina Bielińska (August 14, 1914 in Warsaw - October 13, 1989 in Warsaw) was a Polish film director, animator and screenwriter.
Halina Bielińska and Włodzimierz Haupe were among the first Polish animators; their film "Zmiana wartyChanging of the Guard") was awarded the Short Film Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959.
Alexandr Levintsov
Alexandr Levintsov( born 2 March 1981) is a Ukrainian pair skater who also competed for Poland.
He competed for Ukraine with Ekaterina Kovtunenko and Ekaterina Lebedeva, and for Poland with Dominika Piątkowska.
He was coached by Valentina Galinska and Mirosława and Włodzimierz Brajczewski.
Lady Katherine Percy
Lady Katherine Percy( 18 May 1423 –) was the daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville.
Her maternal grandparents were Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort, a legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt.
She married Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and had seven children:
Hyatt Howe Waggoner
Hyatt Howe Waggoner( born Pleasant Valley, New York, November 19, 1913; died October 13, 1988, in Hanover, New Hampshire) was an English professor.
He is today best known for his work on Nathaniel Hawthorne, especially" Hawthorne's Selected Tales and Sketches"( 1950)," Hawthorne: A Critical Study"( 1956) and" The Presence of Hawthorne"( 1979), and in 1978 played a pivotal role in the authentication of the novelist's" lost notebook".
In the year of Waggoner's death, he was honoured with the House of Seven Gables Hawthorne Award.
He did not, however, confine his output to one author:" I've moved around the field", he declared," at the risk of being superficial."
Among the other literary figures who incurred his attention were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner.
Ray Patterson (basketball)
Raymond Albert Patterson, Jr.( January 15, 1922 – August 3, 2011) was general manager of the NBA's Houston Rockets from 1972 to 1990.
He was named NBA Executive of the Year in 1977, and his Rockets appeared in the NBA Finals in 1981 and 1986.
Among his most notable player acquisitions were Ralph Sampson in 1983 and Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984.
He left the Rockets in 1990 with hopes of becoming co-owner of an NHL team in Houston, and was succeeded by his son, Steve.
Ray Patterson's NHL dreams never materialized, but he helped found an International Hockey League franchise, the Houston Aeros, in 1994.
During the 1940s, Patterson played professional basketball for the Flint Dow A.C.'s of the NBL.
From 1968 to 1972, Patterson served as president, and part- time GM, for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Patterson drafted Lew Alcindor with the first overall pick in the 1969 draft and traded for Oscar Robertson in 1970.
Led by the pair, the Bucks won their first NBA championship in 1971.
Over his career, Patterson was responsible for the drafting, trading, or signing of nine Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players.
Patterson died on August 3, 2011, at age 89.
Ralph Schuckett
Ralph Dion Schuckett (born March 2, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, record producer and TV/film composer.
He played with Clear Light (1966−68), The Peanut Butter Conspiracy (1968−70), Jo Mama (1969−72), Carole King (1969−72), Lou Reed (1972−73), Todd Rundgren and Utopia (1972−75), and, as a studio musician in both LA and NY, on albums by Carole King (notably "Tapestry"), James Taylor, Hall & Oates, Whitney Houston, George Benson, The Four Tops, Cher, Donna Summer, Kashif, Richie Havens, Patty Smyth, Phoebe Snow, The Manhattans, Rodney Crowell, Joan Osborne, Ellen Shipley, Elliott Murphy and many others.
His string and brass arrangements can be heard on recordings by Billy Joel, George Benson, Michael Bolton, Joan Osborne, Bette Midler, Bonnie Tyler, Graham Parker and others.
He produced or co-produced the albums "Real" by Belinda Carlisle and "Tongues and Tails" by Sophie B. Hawkins (which included the worldwide hit, "
Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover"), and "Rescue" by Clarence Clemons, on which he also co-produced tracks with Bruce Springsteen.
He has co-written themes for TV shows, including "Kate & Allie" and "Another World".
The latter became a pop and country hit, sung by Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris.
He has composed music for hundreds of TV commercials, for products such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Chevrolet and Federal Express among others.
Since 1999, he has been the senior composer for 4Kids Productions, providing underscores for the first three "Pokémon" feature films, as well as animated TV series including "PokémonTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesYu-Gi-Oh!CubixSonic XChaoticDinosaur KingViva Piñata" and many others.
Lay Down Your Arms (The Graces song)
" Lay Down Your Arms" is a rock song which Charlotte Caffey, Ralph Schuckett, and Ellen Shipley wrote and composed, and which Shipley produced, for The Graces' album" Perfect View"( 1989).
Caffey was lead vocalist, and the song was released as the band's debut single.
It charted at# 56 in the Billboard charts.
Janusz Ostrogski
Prince Janusz Ostrogski( born 1554, died 1620 in Tarnów) was a Polish – Lithuanian noble and statesman.
He served as a voivode of Volhyn( 1584- 1593), as a castellan of Kraków( from 1593 on), and as a starosta of Bohuslav( from 1591), Biała Cerkiew( since 1592), Czerkasy and Kaniów( from 1594), Perejasław( 1604 on) and Włodzimierz.
Ostrogski was one of the richest magnates of the Commonwealth, and the last of the male line of his family.
Upon his death his estate passed to the Zasławskis.
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.

Question: Were Włodzimierz Spasowicz and Ralph Schuckett of the same nationality?
Answer: no