Mohammad-Reza Modarresi Yazdi
Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Modarresi- Yazdi( born 1955 in Yazd) is one of the 12 members of the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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.
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.
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 ..
Reza Talabeh
Seyed Reza Talabeh Yazdi( born March 8, 1989 in Yazd) is an Iranian football defender who currently plays for Malavan F.C. in the Iran Pro League.
Mohammad Yazdi
Mohammad Yazdi( born 2 July 1931 in Isfahan) is an Iranian cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999.
In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembly of Experts, defeating Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president, by a vote count of 47 to 24.
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.
Alfred Oppenheim (chemist)
Alfred Oppenheim( 3 November 1878 in Berlin – 14 May 1943 at the same place) was a German chemist and gas mantle manufacturer.
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.
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.

Question: Were both Emmet O'Neal (Kentucky) and Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, born in the same place?
Answer: no