Mohammed Ajeeb
Mohammed Ajeeb CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, and was the first Asian( Pakistani) Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom.
William Russell (writer)
William Russell( 1741–1793) was a Scottish historical and miscellaneous writer.
William Benn (Lord Mayor of London)
William Benn( c. 1682- 1755) was a British merchant, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1746.
Benn was a member of the Fletchers Company.
He was a commom councilor of the City of London for Bishopsgate from 1730 to 1740 and was Auditor from 1739 to 1741.
He was elected Alderman of Aldersgate Ward on 12 November 1740.
In 1742 he was Sheriff of London.
He became Lord Mayor of London for the year 1746 to 1747.
Benn was a Jacobite, and he sent a message of support to Charles Stuart while Lord Mayor.
He was President of Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals from 1746 to 1755.
In 1749 he was involved in a drunken fight with another Alderman at a London City feast after proposing a toast to the health of the Young Pretender.
He was the originator of the so- called' Benn's Club', consisting of himself and five other aldermen who were all Tories with Jacobite sympathies.
The other five were Sir Henry Marshall( Lord Mayor 1744- 5)
John Blachford( Lord Mayor 1750), Robert Alsop( Lord Mayor 1752), Edward Ironside( Lord Mayor 1753) and Sir Thomas Rawlinson( Lord Mayor 1753- 4).
In 1753 he stood in for Edmund Ironside who was indisposed on the day of his inauguration, and rode in the State Coach and performed the honours of the day in his place.
Benn died, aged 73 years, on 10 August 1755 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Braughing, Hertfordshire.
His wife Mary died in 1773
William Russell, Lord Russell
William Russell, Lord Russell( 29 September 1639 – 21 July 1683), was an English politician.
He was a leading member of the Country Party, forerunners of the Whigs, who during the reign of King Charles II, laid the groundwork for opposition in the House of Commons to the accession of an openly Catholic king in Charles's brother James.
This ultimately resulted in Russell's execution for treason, almost two years before Charles died and James acceded to the throne.
Alec Fong Lim
Alexander Fong Lim AM( 18 February 1931 – 3 September 1990) was the eleventh Lord Mayor of the City of Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.
He served as Lord Mayor from 1 June 1984 to 9 August 1990.
Notably he was also the first Chinese Australian Lord Mayor and was awarded the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to the community and local government.
Rick Chafe
Rick Chafe is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He is most noted for his play" The Secret Mask", which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English- language drama at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.
His other plays have included" Zac and Speth The Last Man and Woman on EarthMarriage: A Demolition in Two Acts", adaptations of Homer's" The Odyssey" and Leon Rooke's" Shakespeare's Dog", and a collaboration with Danny Schur on the musical" Strike!".
William Russell (Ohio politician)
William Russell (1782 – September 28, 1845) was a United States Representative from Ohio.
William Russell (organist)
William Russell (6 October 1777 – 21 November 1813) was an English organist and composer.
Leon Rooke
Leon Rooke, CM( born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist.
He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States.
Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969.
He now lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989.
In 2002, Rooke championed" The Stone Angel" by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of" Canada Reads".
Rooke's work also appears in.
In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
William Russell (Lord Mayor)
William Anthony Bowater Russell( born 15 April 1965, London NW8), is a British financier, who is serving as the 692nd Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2019 – 2020.
Russell is a member of the Advisory Board of Innovate Finance, an independent not- for- profit membership organisation serving the global FinTech community and a Court Assistant to the Haberdashers' Company.

Question: Are William Russell (Lord Mayor) and Leon Rooke both from the same country?
Answer: no