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.
Edward Patten
Edward Roy" Eddie" Patten( August 27, 1939 February 25, 2005) was an Atlanta, Georgia- born R&B/ soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight& the Pips.
He was a cousin of Gladys Knight.
Along with the group, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
Edward was born in Atlanta, Georgia to Thomas S. Patten and Wilhelmina( née Maxwell).
His father was a local musician, singer and a child prodigy on the piano.
Edward grew up singing in the church and with local" doo wop" groups in Atlanta.
While still a teenager, he married his first wife Katherine( née Smith) in Atlanta at the home of her parents.
He had two children from this marriage Stephanie A. and Steven A. Patten.
It was in Atlanta that he was invited by William Guest to join the Pips after two members left the group to get married.
Edward later traveled first to New York after the success of the single" Every Beat of My Heart" and later he and the group now Gladys Knight and the Pips, moved to Detroit, Michigan to join Motown Records.
By this time the strain of the entertainment world had taken its toll on his marriage and he and Katherine divorced and he married Renee( née Brown).
He and Renee had three children- Edward II, Elliott and Renee Patten.
Even though Gladys Knight& the Pips officially disbanded in 1989, Patten remained very close to his bandmates and his lifelong friends throughout the rest of his life.
Patten had diabetes, hypertension, and was later incapacitated by a stroke.
He died of a stroke at St. Mary's Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Michigan, where he resided.
He was 65 years old.
He is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn Cemetery at Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue.
He is survived by his wife Renee, six children- Stephanie, Steven, Sonya, Edward II, Elliott and Renee Patten and nine grandchildren.
Leonid Mezheritski
Leonid Yakovlevich Mezheritski (:[ leoˈnid ˈyakovlevich meʒeˈrit͡skij], 11 December 1930- 12 November 2007), was a Ukrainian and Russian( Soviet) artist, still- life, portrait and landscape painter.
Jayne Heitmeyer
Jayne Heitmeyer is a Canadian actress appearing in many science fiction and horror movies and TV shows.
Heitmeyer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
She is known for playing Lt. Briony Branca in the second season of" Night Man", Jessie Jaworski in the 1990s TV series" Sirens" and Renee Palmer in Gene Roddenberry's.
Heitmeyer attended the International School of Geneva, John Abbott College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec and McGill University in Montreal.
She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Renee Laravie
Renee A. Laravie( born July 14, 1959), also known by her married name Renee Kelly, is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in the breaststroke.
As a 17- year- old high school senior, Laravie represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec.
She competed in the women's 100- meter breaststroke and clocked a time of 1:16.76 in the preliminary heats, but did not advance to the event final.
Laravie attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women( AIAW) competition from 1977 to 1979.
She received ten All- American honors during her three- year college swimming career.
She won three individual AIAW national titles, including the 100- meter breaststroke, 100- meter and 200- meter individual medley events, and two more AIAW national titles as a member of the Gators' winning relay teams in the 800- meter freestyle relay.
Laravie was a key contributor to the Gators' 1979 AIAW national team championship.
She was the 1977 – 78 recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year.
Laravie was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a" Gator Great."
Laurie Holden
Heather Laurie Holden( born December 17, 1969) is an American actress, producer, model, and human rights activist.
She is known for her roles as Marita Covarrubias in" The X- Files"( 1996– 2002), Adele Stanton in" The Majestic"( 2001), Cybil Bennett in" Silent Hill"( 2006), Amanda Dumfries in" The Mist"( 2007), Olivia Murray in" The Shield"( 2008), Andrea in" The Walking Dead"( 2010 –2013) and Renee in" The Americans"( 20172018).
Jean Ferdinand Rozier
Jean Ferdinand Rozier( 1777 – 1864) was a French- American businessman whose partners included naturalist John James Audubon and lead mogul Firmin Rene Desloge.
He was born in Nantes, France, to Francois Claude Rozier( November 20, 1739, in Orleans, France – September 6, 1806, in Nantes, France) and Renee Angelique Colas( July 17, 1745 – February 9, 1824).
In 1802, he served in the French Navy.
Renée Bourque
Renée Lee Moniz( born October 16, 1977) is an American actress born and raised in Rhode Island.
She is also known as" Renée Moniz" and" Renee Bourque Moniz".
She has appeared in" American Hustle" and in the movie" 27 Dresses" where she plays Katherine Heigl's co-worker at Urban Everest.
Ananya Roy
Ananya Roy is a scholar of international development and global urbanism.
Born in Calcutta, India( 1970), Roy is Professor and Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
She has been a professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.
She holds a Bachelor of Comparative Urban Studies( 1992) degree from Mills College, and Master of City Planning( 1994) and Doctor of Philosophy( 1999) degrees from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley.
Virginia Vassilevska Williams
Virginia Vassilevska Williams( née Virginia Panayotova Vassilevska) is a theoretical computer scientist and mathematician known for her research on graph algorithms and fast matrix multiplication.
She is Steven and Renee Finn Career Development Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2011, Williams found an algorithm for multiplying two formula_1 matrices in time formula_ 2.
This improved a previous time bound that had stood as the best known for 24 years( independently of Andrew Stothers, who also improved the same bound a year earlier).

Question: Are Leonid Mezheritski and Renee Laravie of the same nationality?
Answer: no