List of people named O'Grady
A number of notable people have the O' Grady:
James Crosbie (Kerry politician)
James Crosbie(" c." 1760 – 20 September 1836) was an Irish politician from County Kerry.
Crosbie was the oldest son of Pierce Crosbie, from Ballyheigue, County Kerry, and his wife Frances, daughter of Rowland Bateman of Oak Park, County Carlow.
He was educated in England at Harrow School, and in 1785 he married his cousin Elizabeth née Bateman.
They had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
He was High Sheriff of County Kerry in 1792.
In 1798 he was elected to the House of Commons of Ireland for both the borough of Tralee and for Kerry, but chose to sit for the county seat.
His election had been organised by his cousin John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore, whose continued support ensured his return to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
However he ran out of money and fell out with Glandore, and with neither patronage nor money he was unable to contest the 1806 general election.
A legacy and the support of Lord Ventry secured his re-election in 1812, and he held the seat until 1826.
On the death of John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore he was able to obtain the coveted post of Custos Rotulorum of Kerry, which he held until his own death in 1836.
Sarah Perreault
Sarah Perreault( born September 17, 1962) is a former political figure in Quebec.
She represented Chauveau in the Quebec National Assembly as a Liberal from 2003 to 2007.
She was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, the daughter of Jean- Guy Perreault and Jacqueline Allard, and was educated at the Université Laval.
She worked as an aide for John Crosbie in 1988 and 1989 and was a researcher for the Quebec Liberal Party from 1999 to 2002.
She was elected in the 2003 Quebec election but defeated in 2007 and 2008.
John Crosbie (bishop)
John Crosbie, alias Sean Mac an Chrosáin, died September 1621, was a bishop of the Church of Ireland.
Crosbie was born a member of the Mac an Chrosáin family of Leinster, who were a bardic family to the Ui Mhórdha of Laois.
His baptismal name was Sean, and his mother was an O Cellaigh.
His elder brother, Patrick Crosbie, had been active in English service since 1588 and helped transplant the septs of Laois into County Kerry.
Patrick died on 22 March 1611; his son, the statesman Sir Piers Crosby, died November 1646.
Sean Mac an Chrosáin became anglicised and converted to Anglicanism.
He changed his name to John Crosbie about 1583.
In 1600 Queen Elizabeth I of England referred to him as" a graduate in schools, of English race( sic), skilled in the English tongue and well disposed in religion."
He held the office of Prebendary of Disert in the diocese of Limerick.
He was appointed the Anglican Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe on 15 December 1601.
His wife was Winifred Ni Leathlobhair( Lalor); they had issue:
Many of his descendants lived in County Carlow and County Kerry.
They included
John Crosbie
John Carnell Crosbie,( born January 30, 1931) is a retired provincial and federal politician who served as the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
He served as a provincial Cabinet minister under premiers Joey Smallwood and Frank Moores as well as a federal Cabinet minister during the governments of Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney.
As a Cabinet minister under Mulroney, Crosbie was known to be outspoken and controversial.
Crosbie ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1969, losing to Smallwood, and was also a candidate in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's 1983 leadership election, placing third.
Kāterina Mataira
Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira( 13 November 1932 – 16 July 2011) was a New Zealand Māori language proponent, educator, intellectual, artist and writer.
Her efforts to revive and revitalise the Māori language( te reo Māori), led to the growth of the Māori immersion schools( Kura Kaupapa Māori) in New Zealand.
She was born in 1932 in Tokomaru Bay, on the east coast of the North Island.
She was a member of the Ngāti Porou Māori iwi.
Mataira had nine children with her husband, Junior Te Ratu Karepa Mataira.
She initially studied to be an art teacher and educator.
Mataira and a friend, fellow teacher Ngoi Pēwhairangi, co-founded the Te Ataarangi program as a way to teach and revitalize the Māori language.
Mataira was intrigued by the Silent Way, a language teaching method created by Caleb Gattegno, and adapted to method to teach Māori.
Her efforts earned her the nickname as the" mother" of the Kura Kaupapa Māori, or Maori immersion schools, according to Dr. Pita Sharples.
She also authored Māori language children's picture books and novels.
In the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours Mataira was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for service to the Māori language.
In 2007 she was awarded the Betty Gilderdale Award.
Mataira died on 16 July 2011, in Hamilton, at the age of 78.
She was survived by her nine children, 50 grandchildren, great- grandchildren and one great- great- grandchild.
Her tangi, or Māori funeral, was at the Ohinewaiapu Marae in Rangitukia.
John Crosbie (disambiguation)
John Crosbie (John Carnell Crosbie; born 1931) is a retired Canadian politician.
John Crosbie may also refer to:
Kyōen Kobanzame
There are two parts of the film: the first part and the second part.
Both parts have the same staff and the same actors.
James Crosbie (Kerry politician)
James Crosbie(" c." 1760 – 20 September 1836) was an Irish politician from County Kerry.
Crosbie was the oldest son of Pierce Crosbie, from Ballyheigue, County Kerry, and his wife Frances, daughter of Rowland Bateman of Oak Park, County Carlow.
He was educated in England at Harrow School, and in 1785 he married his cousin Elizabeth née Bateman.
They had 4 sons and 2 daughters.
He was High Sheriff of County Kerry in 1792.
In 1798 he was elected to the House of Commons of Ireland for both the borough of Tralee and for Kerry, but chose to sit for the county seat.
His election had been organised by his cousin John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore, whose continued support ensured his return to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
However he ran out of money and fell out with Glandore, and with neither patronage nor money he was unable to contest the 1806 general election.
A legacy and the support of Lord Ventry secured his re-election in 1812, and he held the seat until 1826.
On the death of John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore he was able to obtain the coveted post of Custos Rotulorum of Kerry, which he held until his own death in 1836.
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: Did Kāterina Mataira and John Crosbie have the same nationality?
Answer: no