Duane B. Simmons
Duane B. Simmons, MD( August 13, 1832 – February 19, 1889) was an American physician, educator and lay Christian missionary.
Along with James Curtis Hepburn he is known as one of the pioneers of modern medicine during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji Era in Japan.
Jim Lett
James Curtis Lett( born January 3, 1951) is an American retired baseball player, and former coach for several teams.
He was born in Charleston, West Virginia.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
J. Curtis Joyner
James Curtis Joyner( born April 18, 1948) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon( 28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian- born first- class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
Tero Taipale
Tero Taipale( born 14 December 1972) is a Finnish football player currently playing for KuPS.
James Curtis Hepburn
James Curtis Hepburn( March 13, 1815 – September 21, 1911) was an American physician, translator, educator, and lay Christian missionary.
He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese – English dictionary.
Jorma Taipale
Jorma Taipale( born 15 May 1949) is a Finnish boxer.
He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he lost to Rufat Riskiyev of the Soviet Union.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.

Question: Was James Curtis Hepburn or Tero Taipale born first?
Answer: James Curtis Hepburn