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

I put a bunch of names on here earlier and did NOT put the most important man of all!

In a crowd of a thousand people who came to hear a lecture by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he got out of his chair on stage and walked into the crowd to give ME a long stemmed red rose!
Years later, when I think of the reverberations of this action, I still gasp!
 

I wish I could double wow that, Gaer. It ties in with one of my famous people sightings, I lived in the Dayton area when Phil Donahue's show was starting up. He talked to me at a refreshment stand while Bobby Riggs and some other tennis stars were doing a charity show. Later on I audited a class at Wright State University and Phil's producer was the guest speaker. She told a story about picking up Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the airport for the show -- he sat in the passenger seat cross legged like he always does so when she stopped suddenly she flung her arm out to keep him from falling forward, like you do with a child. He giggled.

Johnny Bench came to a little do when our branch of Fifth Third Bank was opening (he's part owner.) I had asked if my then twelve year old son could come and he stood wide eyed while Johnny flirted with me. Never had a mother earned so much respect.

While working at the Pentagon Credit Union I opened accounts for Colin Powell and his lovely wife, and Dick Cheney who scared all of us.

About that same time Prince Charles and Diana were touring DC. My husband and I walked over to see them and Reagan at a Labor Day event at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Big crowd, couldn't see them very well. Then I remembered that there is one British soldier buried in Arlington Cemetery so we hustled over to where that was. It was roped off in a little square with a mounted policeman there so I knew I was right. A few minutes later a car drove up. Charles and Di got out and laid a wreath on the grave and said a prayer. We could have reached out and touched them. Then they got back in the car and waved at us. Yes, she was glowingly beautiful.
 

I'm not sure if I already wrote about this, but I did get to meet and greet Debbie Reynolds. This was late 70s, 80s. She was in a Broadway play, which was closing that night. They blocked all the exits, except one, so we all had to file by her to say "goodbye". Nobody was too happy about that. As I approached her, she had her back to me, talking to someone way down the line. She turned back, and we were face to face, just inches apart. I freaked out. I did this "EEEK!" thing. She had these great big clown like tattooed eye brows, almost in the middle of her forehead, and where there was supposed to be eye brows was shave off, and her entire face was divided into little squares, where you can tell she had work done. All I could think of was "OMG, you did this to your self". I felt bad for my reaction.
Later I found out most actresses in the 30-40-50s used to do those tattooed eyebrow . They looked good on screen, in real life they looked really weird.
 
Robert Duvall....he was touring the state capitol in Austin Texas the same time my husband and I were.

I didn't actually meet Prince Charles but while we were walking in a park in London, he and his people drove up to a building, he got out of the car and turned and waved at us and a few others across the street before he went into the building.
 
I reviewed an authors book who wrote another book with Billy Dee Williams. I asked her to invite him to the place where I worked. She did and he came. We talked before his show and later at a reception. He's very funny and down to Earth.
On another occasion, Patrick Stewart aka , Jean -luc Picard, visited when he was with the Royal Shakespeare Theater. I talked with him at a reception for the cast. He's not very tall but his voice is as wonderful as it sounds in films.
I don't know if anyone remembers the African group featured on an award winning album by Paul Simon but I met them: Lady Smith Black Monbozo (hope I spelled that correctly.)
 
I was in a band that was hired for background music at a cocktail party for the premiere of 'Man of LaMancha', in a suite at the top of a hotel in Hollywood, approximately 1972ish. Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren were there, and a lot of other people I didn't know. Later, played a lot of outdoor Cancer'OThons raising money for charity with Elvira and other TV people. Played in the Apple Valley Inn house band, and met the Sons of the Pioneers and Roy Rogers. Later, in a show band, opened the remodeled Alladin hotel in 1976, with Fabian (lol!), and lots of other TV personalities. HAHA...bet there are a lot of people that don't even know who these people were!! They're mostly all gone.
 
* Jimmy Smith in Chicago about 1972.
* Robert Culp in Santa Fe about 1973
* Roy Emerson and Ken Rosewall in Albuquerque about 1974.
* King Carl XVI Gustaf and Syliva on their wedding day in Stockholm 19 June 1976.
 
Mine were more "past" celebrities, but I met Twiggy. She was the godmother of a cruise ship and I worked for the line. I spent some time talking with her because I had just watched a documentary on her life. I am in the US but learned that she (at least in 2010) was still very relevant in the UK. She was a beautiful lady. I also met Lorna Luft. I was assigned to greet her at the terminal for a cruise ship. She had just flown from LA to Europe and didn't realize she would be performing that same evening. She was off her game but was still a real trooper.
 
I met Prince Charles when he came to speak at our college. He was quite handsome and distinguished looking (in his late twenties, and before he married Di).

Also, others who came to speak at my college, and I attended their presentations, were - Jane Goodall (the gorilla lady), and Francis Crick (one of the discoverers of the DNA who received the Nobel Prize)
 
@Della, I responded to this thread maybe a couple of years ago and don't remember mentioning Phil Donahue. DH and I were on the Donahue show, and he spent about an hour with us in the Green Room before going on the air. He was a very pleasant person and seemed to be really interested in us. Other celebrities/famous people I've met had an air about them that made me feel as though when they said hello, they didn't really mean it!
 

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