who's the most famous person you have met?

[MackemX]

I don't think I've met that many but I guess it's Robert Wagner during the Hart to Hart era at Greece International airport

pretty sad really though I've met a few and drank with a few famous local footballers in my time

[AlecWest]

Bob Hope, at a book-signing in Portland years ago.

[Dr. DOS]

Kenny Rogers .... at my brothers attempt breaking the Guiness book of world records for continuous tennis doubles play. (124 hours)

[Conquest10]

Don't care much for celebrities but the only is Robin Robinson, local news anchor.

[HRMaddie]

Lance Armstrong - company I worked for (while I was living in Austin) donated a lot of money to his cancer charity. He came up to work, signed autographs and took pictures. This was before he won his first Touf de France. I was racing bikes at that time and was well aware of who he was. I asked him to sign about 20 pictures, which he politely did.

Kirk Cobain (dead Nirvana singer) - met him outside of a club in Austin before they really took off - he was completely wasted. I was not impressed.

I won't list them all, but lots of heavy metal bands.

I have met a few Longhorn football players now in the pros.

No one really cool except Lance. When I pulled out a stack of magazines from my desk he just started laughing and said he would be glad to sign them all.

[pyrate83]

Kirsty Alley. Met her in the Tampa airport on my way down to baggage claim. Man was her publicist pissed we were drawing so much attention to her.

[housepig]

most people I've met are either in the horror/sci fi film genre, or hardcore punk or metal bands...

but let's see...

Ron Jeremy
Ray Bradbury
Robert Bloch
Ray Harryhausen
Angus Scrimm (the Tall Man from "Phantasm")
David Naughton ("American Werewolf In London")
Vernon Wells (Wez the mohawk biker from "Road Warrior" & "Weird Science")
Malia Nurmi (Vampira from "Plan 9 From Outer Space")

[MackemX]

most people I've met are either in the horror/sci fi film genre, or hardcore punk or metal bands...

but let's see...

Ron Jeremy

in what manner did you meet him?

[reboot]

Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

[SquirrelDip]

most people I've met are either in the horror/sci fi film genre, or hardcore punk or metal bands...

but let's see...

Ron Jeremy

in what manner did you meet him?

Fluffer fluffer?

[SquirrelDip]

Jean Chretien and a number of other Canadian Premiers - they were doing a "World Tour" and I was working on a fairly high profile Canadian joint venture project in Malaysia.

[housepig]

Ron Jeremy

in what manner did you meet him?

I was at a horror movie convention in LA and he was there visiting a friend who had a memorabilia booth... I think I'm one of the few people that recognized him.

[MackemX]

Ron Jeremy

in what manner did you meet him?

I was at a horror movie convention in LA and he was there visiting a friend who had a memorabilia booth... I think I'm one of the few people that recognized him.

so he was fully dressed then?

[HatchetMan]

Metal rocker and former misfit Glenn Danzig several times and several of his band members at various autograph signings.
The new-Misfits at the airport.
Insane Clown Posse at an autograph signing.
Ice-T (briefly, just to say "what's up?") at a Body Count concert.
Tom McGowan (Kenny Daly from "Frasier"). Noticed him at Disneyland few years back, very nice guy.
Orange County California Irish band - "The Fenians"
The Phoenix Suns cheerleaders
My wife hung out with Marilyn Manson before a Nine Inch Nails concert before anyone knew who the hell they were.
Anyone heard of N17 (November17)? Also a bunch of nice guys in a local metal band.
My father-in-law learned how to play the drums from the drummer for "Paul Revere and the Raiders", went to school with him. Of course, that was a very long time ago, long before they made it big. They would play dances and other local "gigs".

[Lucifers_Ghost]

I guess it all depends on how you define famous :P

I have met a TON of bands. My dad used to do security for some shows when I lived in Montreal so we used to go backstage a lot. AND, Montreal is known to be a very party atmosphere for bands. Here goes:

Slayer (NO ONE can drink like these guys)
Pantera
Machinehead
Corrosion of Conformity
Fear Factory
Zakk Wylde (with Black Label Society)
Im sure there are more.

As for random celebs:

Val Kilmer
Ben Affleck (he is a fuc*ing di*khead)
Gary Busey (man, this guy is wierd)
Robert DeNiro (the shyest man in the world)
Bruce Willis (when filming The Jackal)
Candice Cameron (at a hockey game)
Mario Lemieux
A bunch of Montreal Canadians from different years

Me thinks thats about it.

LG

[lumis]

i met mitch "wild thing" williams.. his wife was pretty damned hot.. took a couple of pictures with him.. pretty nice guy.. this was years and years ago, before he choked in the world series.

[Shocker Milwaukee]

Jerry Reed (Snowman from Smoky & the Bandit)
Layne Staley (lead singer of Alice in Chains)
Sebastian Bach (lead singer of Skid Row)
President Bush (the first one)

[CoffeeGuy]

I met Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson in Atlanta, in an elevator at Peach Tree Center. I said hello, and they both just stared at me. They looked really wasted. I doubt they even knew what world they were in.

Hank Williams Jr. several different times backstage. But, I doubt he'd know me from Adams house cat. And why would he ? I'm not famous.

Spud McKensy. The Budweiser dog. I think I saw some dancing bears that evening too. I'm not really sure. That memory is still a bit hazy.

Jimmy Buffet at Muscle Shoals Sound recording studio. He seemed like a really nice guy.

David Letterman, when I was on his show doing stupid pet tricks

[ViRaL1]

David Letterman, when I was on his show doing stupid pet tricks

[budz]

sheena easton in california. she sure is a short thing.
shinichi chiba AKA sonny chiba. saw him when i was a kid at a karate tournament. then saw him about 10 years ago when he was the spokesman for PANASONIC products. got his autograph on one of his STREET FIGHTER's movie poster. he was impressed that someone had a movie poster that was like over 20 years old.

[Ma_Jie]

I met Mr. HOCKEY, Gordie Howe in 1995. I got his autograph on my Maple Leaf program, still have it too.

I've met some other pro players, like Johnny Bower -- on several occasions -- and others who escape me right now.

lumis: He choked like a champ..go Joe Carter!

- MJ

[Supreme2k]

Borrowing some:

Ron Jeremy
Angus Scrimm (the Tall Man from "Phantasm")
David Naughton ("American Werewolf In London")

Bill Clinton
Dave Chappelle
Robin Williams
Ben Savage (Boy Meets World), that guy is tiny, 5'1"-5'3"
Entire cast (Sweathogs) of Welcome Back Kotter
Billy West
David Letterman
Asia Carrera (sp?)
Sting

[Faustus]

Some football player guy. He was at my sisters wedding (good friend of my brother in law) I'm not really into football so I don't even remember the guys name. But I tried on his superbowl ring... it fit over 2 of my fingers quite easy.

I should point out I was like 14 at the time. Thats about it. Oh I met a pornstar once.

[burnman99]

i met mitch "wild thing" williams.. his wife was pretty damned hot.. took a couple of pictures with him.. pretty nice guy.. this was years and years ago, before he choked in the world series.

Hey I met him too! I met him in 1990 at an autograph signing. Unfortunately, my cubs tanked that year and he was traded.
I've also met:

Geoff Tate (Lead singer of Queensryche)
Bill Clinton (While he was Governor of Arkansas)

[Ward River]

George W. Bush & entire 1st family
George H.W. Bush
John Ellis Bush
Donald Rumsfeld
Mel Martinez
Gloria Estefan
Ted Nugent
Vince Niel
David Lee Roth
Eddie Van Halen
Klaus Meine
Matthias Jabs
Rudy Schenker
Bret Hart
Jim Neidhart
Terry Bollea
Luke Williams
Butch Miller
Evel Knievel
James Brown
Rick James
Brittany Murphy
Billy Zane
Gina Gershon
Sean Penn
Harvey Keitel
Christopher Walken
Molly Ringwald
Ralph Macchio
Ricardo Montalban
Jack Lord
Clint Eastwood
Andy Dick
Dave Foley
Jack Black
Ben Stiller
Jennifer Aniston
Brad Pitt
Don "Big Daddy" Garlits
Richard Petty
Paul Newman
Phil Esposito
Ruslan Fedotenko
Nikolai Khabibulin
Jon Gruden
Tony Dungy
Malcolm Glazer
John McKay (Sr)
John McKay (Jr)
Rich McKay
Sam Wyche
Ray Perkins
Vinny Testaverde
Mark Carrier
Mike Alstott
Dave Moore
Roger Craig
Jerry Rice
Dwight Clark
Bill Romanowski
Jim Kelly
Thurman Thomas
OJ Simpson
Nicole Simpson
Don Beebe
Reggie Roundtree
Chip Carter
Kelly Ring
Chris Thomas

Been close to many others but those are some of the ones I've actually met.

[pbhalerao]

Sir Richard Attenborough, Ben Kingsley during the making of 'Gandhi'. I was in college then. Almost the entire South African episode was shot in my college campus. I was one of the huge extras.

[smearbrick1]

Steve Whiteman - Former lead singer of KIX

I took vocal lessons from him. Nice guy...

[rallynavvie]

I've met a few but probably my favorite was Chuck Yeager. He was at the grand opening of the Cabela's in Owatonna, MN but nobody seemed to know who he was so he was kinda just standing around watching all the goings on. I must have talked with him for over an hour without anyone so much as giving him a second look. I was still in school for commercial aviation at the time so it was thrilling to hear some of his stories in full pilot jargon

Chatted with Natalie Portman when a bunch of friends and I were trying to be extras in Beautiful Girls (and we were trying to meet Uma since she was the big name at the time). Nobody really seemed to know who she was and I hadn't a clue either since I hadn't seen The Professional yet. She was kinda shy but interested in how used to the cold we were wearing only "fall jackets" in weather near 0°F. Uh, we're cold-blooded here ma'am

Another great experience was having a master class with Itzhak Perlman. He was in town for a concert and taught master classes at the music school I was attending near orchestra hall.

Met Alyson Hannigan at a party, and she is far better looking in person if you can believe that. I threw a donut at Kevin Smith at Sundance once. I don't know why, it just seemed like a random thing to do. He turned to me with an off comment about how I could have warned him the uneaten donut was coming his way so he could have caught it for a snack or something.

[northcat_8]

Most of mine are Professional Athletes and mainly football players.

Lawrence Taylor
Joe Morris
Jack Lambert
Chuck Noll
Tom Landry
Joe Gibbs
Eddie George
Emmitt Smith
John Elway
Dan Marino
Charles Woodson
Archie Griffin

oh man, it's a list. I go to the American Football Coaches Association Clinic (every year I can), virtually every College coach in the country is there and quite a few Pro coaches. I meet the players either by knowing them before they went Pro or from camps and clinics. The coaches though, it's really cool, for me anyway since I'm just a lowly HS coach, but they will just come and sit down and everyone will just start shooting the shit with everyone else, even including us poor HS coaches.
Also meet quite a few around Ohio State in the summer time, when they come in to work out during the summer.

Basketball players - Shaq at Cavs game
LeBron - (while in HS)
Oscar Robinson - a friend of my HS basketball coach who played with him in Cincinnati
Vince Carter - we were staying at the same hotel on Daytona Beach.
Ron Harper - Miami of Ohio, Homecoming football game.

Baseball players - Ken Griffey Junior - he was in the recovery room from knee surgery with one of my football players from shoulder surgery. Several other Cincinnati Reds players and other major league players at camps and such.

didn't really meet Tiger Woods but spoke to him. He was in the rough at Muirfield Tournament and as he was looking at his ball, he was maybe 170 yards out, I said "I don't think you can get it there" he didn't look back at me, but laughed and said "OH..I can get it there."
Jack Nicholas - at same golf tournament, very nice guy.

Dale Earnhart Jr. & Sr. (on different occasions) - autograph signings
Terry Labonte - car dealership
Bill Elliott - he was driving home to Michigan and we were getting gas at the same gas station.

Actors/Actresses/Models

Yolanda Eggert - Playboy September 85 (I think) - car show

also another Playmate, who was a playmate of the year, I leave her name out because I actually had this girl as a student in class and I'm not real sure about the ethical situation of seeing a student in playboy...but in her layout, you can see her HS soccer uniform laying in the background. But may I say this much...you could tell she was going to be something like that when she was 15-16 years old. She was absolutely beautiful and had the clearest skin I've ever seen, and she was very nice and a good math student

I've met some other actors and actresses but no one famous enough to be obviously recognized.

There are a few others. Oddly no one in politics other than Nebraska's Ex-Coach Tom Osborne and I met him at the coach's clinic.

[MackemX]

I guess ward river has met quite a few famous faces. Unless your a stalker seeing as you said you've been close to a few :P

p.s. Northcat I still can't see your sig pic, your not hosting it at *****p**.com are you?