Who's the most famous person you've ever met?

As i worked in the popular Theatre in London in the 80s, ive met lots of famous people ...
 

Just thought of more; The Everlys, Little Richard, Chan Romero, Teresa Brewer, Dennis Weaver, Robert Conrad, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jonus Salk.
It's funny. I used to date a guy who looked exactly like Kenny Rogers. Every place we would go, we were treated like royalty, but IT WASN'T HIM!
 
Ruthanne said:
It was pretty exciting at the time, she was very nice and gave me an autograph. I think I was about 14 years old or so. She was very pretty.
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You know, when my aunt was still alive, she met Clint Eastwood. Said he was the nicest man you could imagine. I guess he had a young man working for him that had a special condition and had to have a special chair to work so he made sure that kid got what he needed. She said they had dinner with him and his family. Said they were very nice folks.
 
I saw a train once coming through where I was, around 1962 and supposedly Elvis was on it.

Everyone hoped he was going to come to the window and wave, but we heard he was asleep, and so the train left.
 
Did a new business pitch for my PR firm to Mitt Romney when he was at Bain.

Did a little work with Hamilton Jordan (Jimmy Carter's Chief of Staff). Ditto for Mac McLarty (Clinton's Chief of Staff). And Steve Case (AOL founder).

But the best for me was...

Met Bart Starr and his wife in the lobby of our firm. Talked for a few minutes and he gave me an autographed football. A real gentleman. The thing is, I thought he would be a big guy and he was about 5' 10 and 160 pounds.

That's it. Lived in NYC and had many sightings over the years but not much contact.
 
I had lunch alone with Mike Love of the Beach Boys. He was a vegetarian so it was mostly fruit and cheese. We were both heavily into TM at the time. Anyway, It was about an hour; just the two of us! That was pretty cool!
 
Prince, Leo Kottke, Ted Nugent, Gordon Lightfoot, Stephen Stills, Steve Allen (bumped into him), saw George Bush Sr. in his wheelchair at the Mayo Clinic...will post if I think of any more.

Tony
 
The only person who's famous who I've really known is Greg Proops who used to be on Who's Line Is It Anyway both here and the UK version. He's the tall geeky guy with glasses. He wasn't famous at the time, but was in an improv group at San Francisco State that played at the dorms weekly. I was a regular and when their current lighting guy left they asked me if I wanted to do lights for them. Doing lighting for them just consisted of turning down the lights at the end of a scene and then turning them up again when they were ready to start another, so it wasn't a particularly difficult task. I also took part in their review of a show after it was over. Anyway as well as doing that I occasionally met with members of the group (including Greg) for games of Uno in the student union.

My favorite meeting happened last year but she isn't that famous, Anya of the Norwegian band Flunk. They had a hit with their cover of Blue Monday back in 2002. I saw them play in London last year when I was there on business. After the show was over I was talking to the woman who was the opener and Anya came over and thanked me for being so enthusiastic during their show and gave me a hug.

Other people I've met briefly:

I've waited on the following people when I worked as a waiter.
Perry Como
Gene Washington (49ers player)
Three members of the band The Tubes (which was a favorite of mine at the time)

I've also said hello to
Paris Hilton (who also was a DJ at a show my wife and I went to)
Ariana Huffington
Martha Stewart
 
Rode the elevator at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills w/ Michael J Fox. Said hello to Red Skelton on the plane to Reno.
Spent some time w/a member of the band Bread in his hotel room. Shields and Yarnell spent time in our hotel room after a show, w/me, my mom, and sister. Saw King Tut at the Getty Museum lol.

That's all that come to mind for now.
 
Dennis Rodman and his two body guards in Hawaii. Very friendly and talkative.

Michael Jordan and his trainer at the old Bulls Arena In Chicago.
The trainer gave my son workout tips on how to improve his vertical leap then called us at home to follow up.

Richard Nixon, OU campus

Drew Carey, Kent State
 

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