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

Working security in and around Portland Oregon. I met

Mr, & Mrs. Stan Wiley (one of the biggest realtors in Oregon, Washington)
Sen Mark Hatfield.
The owner of Crown Zellerbach..OK, not famous, but incredibly rich.
Phil Knight (Nike founder) (I also worked at Nike as security during construction of world headquarters)
Jimmy Carter (When he was running for president)

Called up for one event, so I was watching over 16 etchings from Du'er (I don't know if I spelled that right) during a celebration for a rabbi that had been at one synagogue for 30 years.

One of the attendees was the governor of Oregon Neil Goldschmidt. Pleasant enough gentleman, along with his State patrol protection. Those guys I did not want to mess with..😁😁😁
 
I met Weird Al Yankovic briefly when I was working a security job years ago. I also, unfortunately met Ron Jeremy when doing the same. Did not turn out that he was too great of a guy if youve seen the news the last few years.
 
About 50 yrs ago, I was sitting a table in the lounge at a Holiday Inn waiting for a girlfriend to arrive. Two guys stopped at my table wanting to join me. I told them they could sit there until my friend arrived. One of the guys that sat next to me looked like Burt Reynolds only this guy was bald. I kept telling him that he looked like Burt Reynolds and he kept denying it. A couple of weeks later, I was talking to the bartender at the bar there and he said Burt Reynolds had been there a couple of weeks earlier. I'll never know if it was him or not but suspicion it was him without his toupee.
I used to live in a nice apartment complex near the Indianapolis 500 track. During the month of May, a lot of race car drivers and their entourage would rent an apartment for the month of May rather than staying in a hotel room. About 40 years ago, James Garner was the pace car driver at the Indy 500. He rented an apartment in the building next to mine. I never saw him, but I sure was on the lookout for him.
Another time, in the same apartment complex, some friends and I was in the community hot tub. A couple came down from the apartment that was staying across the hall from mine. They were very nice non pretentious people. It was Gordon Johncock and his wife. He ended up winning the 500 that year.
 
When I was about 7 or 8 I met the Queen of England when she returned to the UK from her Commonwealth Tour in 1954.

I use the word "met" very loosely, I was part of a conga line of school kids representing the local schools (three from each) when she visited Folkestone at the end of the tour. As I recall we had to walk up and bow as we were presented to her in the Town Hall.

The only other famous person I can think of that I actually talked to was Spike Milligan in the very early 70s when he signed my copy of "Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall".

I am told Jimi Hendrix's bass player (Noel Redding) attended my grammar school but a year below me, I don't remember him at all.
 
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