Timothy Davis (Massachusetts)
Timothy Davis( April 12, 1821 – October 23, 1888) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Davis was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and attended the public schools.
He served two years in a printing office, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston.
Sophia Hillan
Sophia Hillan( c. 1950), is a writer, critic and academic from Northern Ireland.
Tess Hurson
Tess Hurson( 1955 –) is a poet and academic from Northern Ireland.
Moteane Melamu
Moteane Melamu is a writer and academic from Botswana.
He is a professor at the University of Botswana.
Don Johnson Jr.
Clete Donald Johnson Jr.( born January 30, 1948) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer and academic from the state of Georgia.
Patricia Petersen
Patricia May Petersen is an Australian academic from Ipswich, Queensland.
Barolong Seboni
Barolong Seboni( born 27 April 1957) is a poet and academic from Botswana.
Valerie Smith (academic)
Valerie Smith( born February 19, 1956) is an American academic administrator, professor, and scholar of African- American literature and culture.
She is the 15th and current president of Swarthmore College.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she is a graduate of Bates College and the University of Virginia.
She taught at Princeton University from 1980 to 1989 and at University of California, Los Angeles from 1989 to 2000.
In 2001, Smith returned to Princeton upon being appointed the director of Princeton's African- American studies program.
From 2006 to 2009, Smith was the founding director of Princeton's interdisciplinary Center for African American Studies.
In July 2011, the university's president appointed Smith the Dean of the College, tasked with" Princeton's undergraduate curriculum, residential college system, and admission and financial aid offices."
While at the university as dean, she removed numerical targets for the university's grading policy, expanded socioeconomic diversity, created an international residential college exchange program, and created the Office of Undergraduate Research of Princeton University.
She left Princeton after a 23- year tenure on their faculty to assume the presidency of Swarthmore College in July 2015; she was inaugurated in October.
As president she increased the college's endowment to its 2016 market value of$ 1.85 billion and started the$ 450 million fundraising campaign called" Changing Lives, Changing the World" on April 6, 2017.
Velma Maia Thomas
Reverend Velma Maia Thomas (born June 18, 1955) is an author and academic from the United States of America.
Konai Helu Thaman
Konai Helu Thaman( born 1946) is a poet and academic from Tonga.

Question: Are both Timothy Davis (Massachusetts) and Valerie Smith (Academic) from the same country?
Answer: yes