Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai
Dr Asiata Alaelua Va'alepa Sale'imoa Va'ai (25 May 1945 – 2 September 2010) was a Samoan politician and lawyer.
He was Member of Parliament for the territorial constituency of Satupa'itea and the leader of the Samoan United Independents Political Party and Samoan Democratic United Party.
Asiata was the son of former Prime Minister Va'ai Kolone and the brother of Tautua Samoa MP Va'ai Papu Vailupe.
He worked as a barrister in Samoa and New Zealand, before working for the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat in Suva, Fiji.
Later he served as president of the Samoa Law Society from 1985 to 1987 and of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association from 1998 to 2001.
Va'ai was elected to Parliament at the 2001 election, representing the constituency of Satupa'itea.
He was re-elected in 2006, and became leader of the SDUP in August of that year.
As a result, the party fragmented, and ceased to be recognised by the Samoan Parliament.
Arild Andersen
Arild Andersen( born 27 October 1945) is a Norwegian jazz musician bassist, known as the most famous Norwegian bass player in the international jazz scene.
Le Mamea Ropati
Le Mamea Ropati is a Samoan politician, Cabinet member, and former Leader of the Opposition.
He represented the territorial constituency of Lefaga and Falese'ela between 1979 and 1987, and again since 1991.
In 1982 he served as Minister of Lands Survey, Post Office and Broadcasting.
He subsequently served as Minister of Education, Youth, Sports& Cultural Affairs and Labour in the government of Tofilau Eti Alesana.
Between 2001 and 2006, he was Leader of the Opposition Samoa Democratic United Party.
On 31 August 2006 Ropati was betrayed as leader of the SDUP in favour of Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai.
He subsequently left the party, resulting in the party failing to stay together and later crumbling down.
In February 2010 Ropati revealed he had been asked by his village to run as a candidate for the Human Rights Protection Party.
He has also been approached by the Tautua Samoa Party.
He is the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Agriculture Store as a part of the HRPP government of Samoa.
In the lead up to the closure of the 2015 Parliamentary sitting, Le Mamea was unanimously elected to the Council of Deputies with the Hon. Tuiloma Pule Lameko, as Deputy Head of State.
Emma Kruse Va'ai
Emma Kruse Va'ai is a Samoan chief(' high matai'), writer and educator in Samoa.
Her" matai" chief title is Letuimanu’asina.
She has a PhD in English from the University of New South Wales in Australia and is a former director of Samoa Polytechnic.
Currently, she is the Deputy Vice- Chancellor of the National University of Samoa following the polytechnic's merger into the university in 2006.
Also a lecturer in English at the university, she is a strong advocate for bilingual education in both English and the Samoan language.
As a writer, she has published poetry and stories which have been translated into other Pacific Islands languages.
She is also an executive committee member of the Samoa Association of Women Graduates( SAWG).
Letuimanu’asina was born and raised in Samoa in a family of eight siblings.
Her primary and secondary schooling was at the Marist Missionary Sisters.
Later, she studied at Victoria University in New Zealand before undertaking her doctorate in Australia.
She is married to lawyer Alo Vaimoa Va'ai and they have four children.
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Carl Otto Svae
Carl Otto Svae( 4 April 1918 – 30 June 1977) was a Norwegian sailor born in Kristiania.
He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, coming fourth in the Dragon class, together with Øivind Christensen and Arild Amundsen.
Jimmy Hopps
James Edward Hopps Jr.( born 1939) was an American jazz drummer.
Although he never recorded as a leader, he worked extensively with Roland Kirk, Charles Tolliver, Stanley Cowell, and Pharoah Sanders during some of their well known sessions.
He also worked with Sahib Shihab, Joe Bonner, Cecil McBee, Marion Brown, Shirley Scott, Jan Garbarek, and Arild Andersen.
Kazumi Watanabe's" Mudari- Spirit Of Song" features Hopps as a co-leader.
He also appeared on" A Song for the Sun", the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen.
Here he used his pseudonym Jimmi EsSpirit.
Va'ai Papu Vailupe
Va'ai Papu Vailupe is a Samoan politician and Member of Parliament.
He is the leader of the Tautua Samoa Party.
Va'ai was first elected to the Samoan Legislative Assembly at the 1991 election.
After being re-elected in 1996, he served as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Works, EPC, and the Water Authority, before being appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Justice Between 1998 and 2001, he served as Minister of Agriculture.
Since 2006 he has been a backbench MP.
In December 2008 he became a founding member of the Tautua Samoa Party.
As a result, in May 2009 he was one of nine Tautua MPs declared to have resigned their seats under an anti-party hopping law.
He was subsequently reinstated after the Supreme Court of Samoa overturned the law and declared the formation of new parties legal.
In January 2010 new anti-party- hopping laws came into force, barring MPs from declaring their support for political parties or organizations with political aims other than the party they were elected for.
In March 2010, he joined Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi and Palusalue Fa’apo II in formally declaring his membership of the party and so was deemed to have resigned his seat.
However, the HRPP was unable to find a candidate for the resulting by-election, and on 2 May 2010 he was declared elected unopposed, becoming the first non-HRPP MP to win a by-election.
Vailupe won his seat in the 2011 election, but the result was overturned by an electoral petition, which found him guilty of bribery and treating.
Vailupe is the son of former Prime Minister Va'ai Kolone and the brother of Samoan Democratic United Party leader Asiata Sale'imoa Va'ai.
Va'ai Kolone
Va'ai Kolone( 11 November 1911 – 20 April 2001) was a Prime Minister of Samoa and a founder of the Human Rights Protection Party( HRPP) in Samoa.
He served as Prime Minister twice, first between 13 April and 18 September 1982, and then from 30 December 1985 until 8 April 1988.
Arild Andersen (cyclist)
Arild Andersen is a Norwegian former professional racing cyclist.
He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 1950.
Artur Beul
Artur Beul( December 9, 1915 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland – January 9, 2010 in Küsnacht) was a Swiss songwriter.
He was married to the German chanteuse Lale Andersen from 1949 until her death in 1972.

Question: Are both Asiata Sale'Imoa Va'Ai and Arild Andersen from the same country?
Answer: no