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.
Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker)
Jeffrey Friedman( born August 24, 1951) is an American filmmaker.
In 2019, he and Rob Epstein were nominated for an Academy Award for their work in the documentary film" End Game".
Dugès
Several people share the surname Dugès:
George Augustus
Multiple people share the name George Augustus:
Cheyenne Rides Again
Cheyenne Rides Again is a 1937 western film directed by Robert F. Hill.
It stars Tom Tyler and Lon Chaney Jr.. Much as did Alfred Hitchcock in his own films, director Hill appears in a cameo as townsman" Bartender Ed".
Earl Swope
Earl Bowman Swope( August 4, 1922, Hagerstown, Maryland – January 2, 1968, Washington, D.C.) was an American jazz trombonist.
He was the brother of Rob Swope.
Swope played with Sonny Dunham in 1942, then with Boyd Raeburn( 1943 – 44), Georgie Auld( 1945), and Buddy Rich( 1945 – 47).
From 1947 to 1949 he worked with Woody Herman and also recorded in small groups with Stan Getz and Serge Chaloff.
In 1950 – 51 he was with Elliot Lawrence, then worked freelance in New York City and Washington, D.C. Later in the 1950s he returned to big band work, playing with Jimmy Dorsey( 1957) and Louie Bellson( 1959).
In the 1960s he played locally in Washington, D.C.
Lacordaire
Several people share the surname Lacordaire:
Alfred Prunier
Alfred Prunier( 1848 in Yerville, France – 1925) was a French chef and restaurant owner.
In 1872 Prunier and his wife Catherine opened a Parisian restaurant on Rue Duphot that bore his name.
Today the same restaurant operates under the name Goumard.
His restaurant specialized in seafood( lobster, caviar) and grilled entrées.
The quality of the cuisine, the service, and the interior decor quickly made the restaurant a success, attracting famous writers such as Oscar Wilde, actors such as Sarah Bernhardt, politicians such as Georges Clemenceau, and aristocrats including Russian royalty.
In 1924 Prunier's son Émile opened another Prunier restaurant on the avenue Victor Hugo in Paris, which attracted writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
After Prunier's death in 1925, his daughter Simone took over the business and opened a third restaurant in London.
The second restaurant still operates, but the London restaurant closed in 1976.
Prunier was very successful
Madame Prunier
Simone Prunier, known as Madam Prunier, was a French restaurateur and food writer who established a well- known French restaurant in London.
Prunier was the granddaughter of French restaurateur Alfred Prunier, who opened La Maison Prunier, the first Prunier fish restaurant, in Paris in 1872.
La Maison Prunier became famous for the fresh fish and shellfish that was delivered daily by train from the sea, a novelty at the time.
When Alfred Prunier died, his son Emile Prunier( Simone Prunier's father) took over the restaurant, expanding and modernizing it.
When Emile died in 1925, the then 22- year old Simone Prunier took over the business.
In 1934, Prunier and her husband closed the Paris restaurant and opened the Prunier St James's restaurant in London.
Many of her wealthy clients had stopped coming to Paris due to war fears.
In addition, her English clients had urged her to move to London for years.
Prunier St James's quickly gained a reputation for its outstanding fish dishes.
Edward Prince of Wales used to walk up to the restaurant from St James's Palace with Wallis Simpson for lunch.
In 1938, Prunier published her book" A Classic Way with Fish".
Rick Stein credits it as being" a very influential book in my early days of fish cookery" Prunier had a strong reputation for the quality of her fish dishes at Prunier St. James as well as for her hospitality.
After World War II, the restaurant clientele included some deposed heads of state who had visited the London and Paris restaurants when in power before the war.
In 1954, Prunier was made Chevalier de la Legion d' Honneur, France's highest honour, in recognition of her services to maintaining the standards and recognition of French cuisine.
As had said her father:" It's true it's cost me a lot of work.
It's true it's cost me a lot of worry.
But what a magnificent business it is," quelle belle Maison
In her retirement, Prunier wrote her biography" La Maison: The History of Prunier" published in 1957.
The Prunier St James's restaurant closed in 1976.
Rob Swope
George Robert" Rob" Swope( December 2, 1926, Washington, D.C.- January 9, 1967, Washington, D.C.) was an American jazz trombonist.
He was the brother of Earl Swope.
Swope played with Buddy Rich in 1947 and Chubby Jackson in 1948- 49, and also recorded with Jerry Wald in 1947.
He worked with Gene Krupa in 1949- 50, then with Elliot Lawrence in 1950- 51.
He led his own trio in the D.C. area in the early 1950s, and also was a member of The Orchestra, the band which accompanied Charlie Parker in 1953 and Dizzy Gillespie in 1955.
He spent time in New York City in the latter half of the 1950s, playing with Larry Sonn, Boyd Raeburn, Claude Thornhill, Jimmy Dorsey, and Louie Bellson.
In the 1960s he worked in Washington, D.C. again, often as a leader.

Question: Did Alfred Prunier and Rob Swope share the same nationality?
Answer: no