Johann Christian Buxbaum
Johann Christian Buxbaum( no later than 5 October 1693 – 7 July 1730), was a German physician, botanist and traveller.
He was born in Merseburg and studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Jena, and Leyden.
In 1721 he was invited by Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, to take up a position as botanist in the Physical Garden, at the Medical Collegium in St Petersburg.
In 1724 he became a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Professor at the Academic Gymnasium.
In his capacity as a physician, Buxbaum in 1724 was called upon to accompany Alexander Rumyantsev to Constantinopolis, in a Russian diplomatic mission to Turkey.
He used this opportunity to visit Greece.
On his way back from Constantinopolis he visited Asia Minor, travelling through Baku and Derbent he reached Astrachan, to return, finally, to St Petersburg( in 1727).
He died in Wermsdorf, Saxony.
He is commemorated in the moss genus" Buxbaumia"( also the name of a journal on mosses) and in the names of several species( notably the sedge" Carex buxbaumii").
His most notable works are: Johann Christian Buxbaum was also an entomologist.
Georgi Proskurin
Georgi Ermolayevich Proskurin( 13 June 1945 – 10 July 2004) was a Soviet pair skater.
He was born in Moscow.
With Galina Karelina, he is the 1971 European bronze medalist.
With Tatiana Tarasova, he won the 1966 Winter Universiade.
In total, he is a five- time Soviet national medalist with Karelina, Tarasova, and Galina Sedova.
Galina Pedan
Galina Pedan( born 29 May 1983) is a Kyrgyz athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles.
She finished eighth at the 2005 Asian Championships and fifth at the 2006 Asian Games.
She also competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final.
Her personal best time was 56.16 seconds, achieved in July 2004 in Almaty.
Johann Fischart
Johann Baptist Fischart( c. 1545 – 1591) was a German satirist and publicist.
Johannes Ringk
Johannes Ringk, or Ringck( 26 June 1717 – 24 August 1778), was a German composer and organist.
He was born in Frankenhain, in present- day Thuringia, and studied organ with Johann Peter Kellner in Gräfenroda and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel in Gotha.
From 1740 he was a music teacher in Berlin, and in 1754 he was appointed organist of the Marienkirche, where he remained until his death.
Contemporaries held a high opinion of his organ playing and ability at fugal extemporisation.
He composed organ works, concertos and possibly an opera, but is most remembered today for the numerous copies he made, often the only now remaining, of works by more notable composers.
Amongst these copies in his hand are Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata" Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202" and the oldest copy of the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565.
It is possible that the copies were made from versions in Kellner's collection, who was a pupil of Bach.
The copies in Kellner's collection, which were made c. 1725, are today one of the most important sources of Bach's work.
Katya Ilieva
Katya Ilieva( born 3 January 1963) is a retired Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
She finished eighth in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships, with teammates Svobodka Damyanova, Rositsa Stamenova and Galina Penkova.
Her personal best time was 51.11 seconds, achieved in August 1987 in Sofia.
Anton Smirnov (figure skater)
Anton Yuryevich Smirnov( born 4 June 1982) is a Russian former competitive figure skater.
He won two medals in the 2000 – 01 ISU Junior Grand Prix( JGP) series – gold in France and bronze in Norway – and qualified for the JGP Final in Ayr, Scotland, where he finished 7th.
As a senior, he won silver at the 2003 Winter Universiade and bronze at the 2003 Skate Israel.
Svetlana Derbina, Anna Sedelkova, and Galina Kashina coached him in Saint Petersburg.
Dilyara Idrisova
Dilyara Idrisova( Russian: Диляра Марсовна Идрисова)( born February 1, 1989, in Ufa) is a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist, specialising in soprano and coloratura mezzo- soprano material of the 18th and 19th century.
She studied with Milyausha Murtazina and Galina Pisarenko.
Viktoria Brezhneva
Viktoria Petrovna Brezhneva( 11 December 1908 – 5 July 1995) was the wife of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
She was the mother of Yuri Brezhnev and Galina Brezhneva.
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: Are Johann Fischart and Galina Pedan of the same nationality?
Answer: no