Ron DeGregorio
Ron DeGregorio an American ice hockey executive.
He was the president of USA Hockey from 2003 to 2015, when he was elected the organization's fourth president since 1937 in 2003.
He was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy the same year.
Robert William Rankin
Robert William Rankin( 3 June 1907 – 4 March 1942) was a Royal Australian Navy officer who was killed in action during the Second World War.
He is one of six people to have had a Collins class submarine named after him.
William Rankin
Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin( October 16, 1920 – July 6, 2009) was the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud.
He was a pilot in the United States Marine Corps and a World War II and Korean War veteran.
He was flying an F- 8 Crusader jet fighter over a cumulonimbus cloud when the engine failed, forcing him to eject and parachute into the cloud.
Lieutenant Colonel Rankin wrote a book about his experience," The Man Who Rode the Thunder".
William Rankin (boxer)
William Rankin (8 August 1898 – 17 August 1967) was a Canadian boxer.
He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Hideyuki Osawa
Throughout the entirety of his professional career, Osawa played for the Nippon Paper Cranes of Asia League Ice Hockey, from 2001 until his retirement in 2016.
He also played for the Japan national team from 2005 to 2011.
Robert Rankin (Australian politician)
Robert Chisholm Rankin( 18 September 1896 – 28 May 1955) was an Australian politician.
Born in Malvern to Indian- born bootmaker William Rankin and Elizabeth Chisholm, he served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, attaining the rank of captain.
He married Ethel Josephine Bennetts around 1918.
Returning from the war, he farmed at Harrow and then at Horsham; he was a life member of the Returned and Services League.
In 1940 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Province, representing the Country Party.
He left the Country Party in 1947 and in 1948 joined the Liberal Party.
He was defeated in 1952.
Rankin died in Toorak in 1955.
Björn Palmqvist
Björn Palmqvist( born March 15, 1944) is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player.
He played with Djurgårdens IF Hockey from 1966 to 1978.
He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1968 and the 1972 Winter Olympics and several Ice Hockey World Championships.
Chris Harrington (ice hockey)
Chris Harrington( born May 7, 1982 in St. Cloud, Minnesota) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman.
Willie Rankin
William Rankin was a Scottish professional football inside right who made over 470 appearances in the Scottish League for Motherwell, Cowdenbeath and Clyde.
He represented the Scottish League XI.
Johnny Matz
Reinhold Jean Matz( June 1, 1892 – December 21, 1969) was an American- Canadian professional ice hockey player.
Matz played senior amateur and professional ice hockey from 1911 until 1928, including one season in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens.
He was born in Casper, Wyoming.

Question: Are both William Rankin and Chris Harrington (Ice Hockey) from the same country?
Answer: yes