Emmet O'Neal
Emmet O'Neal( September 23, 1853 – September 7, 1922) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer who was the 34th Governor of Alabama from 1911 to 1915.
He was a reformer in the progressive mold, and is best known for securing the commission form of government for the cities of Alabama.
Hussein Khomeini
Hojatoleslam Sayyid Hussein Khomeini( in Persian: حسین خمینی)( born 1959) is an Iranian scholar and reformist cleric.
He is the grandson of Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the son of Ruhollah's first son, Mostafa Khomeini, and his wife, Masoumeh Haeri Yazdi, daughter of Morteza Haeri Yazdi.
Mohsen Faqihi
Mohsen Faqihi( Persian: محسن فقیهی)( born 1952) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Ayatollah.
He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Morteza Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad- Reza Golpaygani and Mohammad Ali Araki.
Faqihi is known for his book" Maʻrifat Abwāb al- Fiqh" in which he summarized" Tahrir al- Wasilah".
He is a member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom.
Alexander Pope Humphrey
Judge Alexander Pope Humphrey( 1848- 1928), also known as A. P. Humphrey or Alex P. Humphrey, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky and was a noted lawyer and judge.
He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the University of Virginia law school ..
Harvey I. Sloane
Harvey I. Sloane( born May 11, 1936), a physician and Democrat, served two terms as Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky and also a term as county judge- executive of Jefferson County, Kentucky.
He narrowly lost two Democratic primaries for Governor of Kentucky and lost a race for the United States Senate to incumbent Mitch McConnell.
Walter Evans (American politician)
Walter Evans( September 18, 1842 – December 30, 1923) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Mehdi Haeri Yazdi
Mehdi Haeri Yazdi( 1923 in Qom, Iran – 1999 in Tehran, Iran) was a prominent Shia Islamic cleric in Iran and the first son of Sheikh Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi, the founder of Qom Seminary and teacher of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who became the leader of the Iranian Revolution and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Emmet O'Neal (Kentucky)
Emmet O'Neal (April 14, 1887 – July 18, 1967) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and an ambassador to the Philippines.
A member of the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame, his brother was Louisville Mayor Joseph T. O'Neal.
O'Neal was born in Louisville to Joseph T. O'Neal, Sr. and Lydia Elizabeth (Wright).
O'Neal was the youngest of four children in his family and he graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1907.
During his tenure at Centre College, he participated in football, basketball, baseball, and tennis in which he won a championship title.
In 1906–07, he led the football, basketball and baseball squad.
He kicked one drop kick for 48 yards.
O'Neal would be inducted into the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.
O'Neal graduated from Yale University in 1908 and from the law department of the University of Louisville in 1910.
He was following his father and brothers' footsteps as they were all lawyers.
O'Neal was admitted to the bar in 1910 and started his law practice in Louisville.
During World War I, O'Neal served overseas in the United States Army.
O'Neal was enlisted in the Fifth Field Artillery in the First Division and as an officer in the One Hundred and Third Field Artillery in the Twenty-sixth Division from 1917 to 1919.
Following the war he resumed the practice of law in Louisville and later became involved in banking.
O'Neal went into politics being elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress from Kentucky's 3rd District and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935 - January 3, 1947).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress losing to Thruston Ballard Morton.
The following year, he served as an ambassador to the Philippines from September 22, 1947 to April 28, 1948.
After serving as an ambassador O'Neal resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.
He became active in the Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission and would eventually become a chairman for the commission.
O'Neal died in Washington and was interred in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
Derek Homer
Derek Homer is an American football player who played for the University of Kentucky and the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL
Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi
Grand Ayatollah
Hajj Sheikh Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi( 1859 — 30 January 1937) was a Twelver Shia Muslim cleric and marja.
He was known as the founder of an important Islamic seminary( hawza) in Qom, Iran, and for his" studied disinterest in politics".
Among his students was Ruhollah Khomeini.

Question: Were Emmet O'Neal (Kentucky) and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi of the same nationality?
Answer: no