The Most Famous Person You've Met

[SupportTheSecond]

Buddy Hacket at a Las Vegas gun show in 1969.

Gregg Rolie in a hardware store parking lot putting a 2X4 into his Rolls Royce.

 

[jimbo728]

Ronald Reagan 1980 GO NH rally Concord NH

 

[Chuck24]

When I was still at the Postal Service, I once delivered a Time magazine to the person on the cover. Ralph Reed was with the Christian Coalition which was headquartered in this area and he lived on my route.

 

[Bald1]

Billy bob Clinton. I've met Joe foot-in-mouth Biden multiple times, my mom was a campaign manager for him at one point. Met Al Bore once too, absolute and utter ***. Biden was nice enough of a guy, but Clinton was very friendly and personable.

All the White House interns have said Clinton was very nice and personable.

 

[BloodyThumb]

..in no kinda order whatsoever;

Richard Petty
Benny Parsons
Cale Yarborough
Bobby Allison
David Pearson
Bobby Knight
BB King
Robert Cray
Buddy Guy
Roger Penske
Jimmie Vaughan
Scott Rolen
Andre the Giant
George Thorogood
Patty Loveless
Bill Wilson
Jim Clark
Jerry Michulek
Kit Carson (knife maker)
Tony Bose
Clint Smith
Rob Leatham


... Sat and talked with Doug Turnbull most of an evening at an NRA convention in the hotel bar. At the end of the evening he literally gave me the shirt (very nice Turnbull embroidered shirt) off his back and he went back to his room in his T-shirt. Great night that one.... The rest were just a meet and maybe a quick handshake, but that night was 2 gun nuts sitting at the bar talking about a common love. He did the talkin... I did the learnin... Very nice guy.

... drove John Prine and a mutual friend around to bars all night one night in my pickup many years ago... listening to musician road stories and watching those two get knee walking commode hanging drunk.

... and due to not seeing who was coming through, I have been shoved out of the way of Richard Childress and Al Pacino by their personal bodyguards!

 

[rubiranch]

Jon Huntsman Sr.
He's a life saver.

 

[Tom S.]

George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, U. S. Grant and Ben Franklin. I carry pictures of them with me all the time and they can be very influential.

 

[Pisgah]

Many years ago a TV miniseries was filmed in my town. The star was Charlton Heston, and I met with him ("Call me Chuck") a number of times organizing the several fund-raising events he agreed to do for our local Library campaign. As nice a "regular guy" as you'd hope to meet.

 

[Justin T]

Fun thread. Worked in hotels in austin for many years, so i bumped into more than a few famous folks.

Carried BB King’s Lucille down a flight of stairs.
Delivered a small, mysterious green duffle bag to Bob Dylan.
Made Tracy Chapman mad (I developed a strong dislike for her).
Kept traffic cops from giving Earl Campbell parking tickets.
Had an accidental beer with Willie.
Met Joe Namath when he was in town for a fundraiser. Insanely nice man.

Those are the more memorable ones. Oh, and I remember tagging along with a buddy’s band who was sharing rehearsal space with Jimmy Vaughan’s crew. They were able to come in and kick out my friend’s band whenever, just because of who he was. That never sat right with me.

 

[NYlakesider]

I have met a few. I had the displeasure of being around and talking with Mike Tyson a couple times when early in his carrier him and his crew came to Albany. They were training in Catskill NY and they would come up her and push their weight around. All fighters or ring people so who in their right mind would want to fight with these trouble making bozo's.

Met and had about a 15 minuet talk with the then governor of NY, Nelson Rockefeller. I was a apprentice pipe fitter and was repairing a boiler at the executive mansion. My BIL father was a high ranking state police officer in charge of security. He asked me if I wanted to meet the governor. As I was a apprentice I need permission from my boss to leave the work area, which I got

Went upstairs with my BIL father and spent some decent time talking to Rockefeller who later became the vice president of the US serving with Gerald Ford.

 

[mbliss57]

My wife, my Mother and father. My sisters .
These are my famous people.
Outside the family would have to be Jim Funk, my Advisor at Alfred University Grad school. He invented or at least he made injection of liquified coal slurries a reality for heating and energy production. These pilot plants never took off in the 1980s. One of those buried technologies that many did not want to succeed.
Other than that.. no one. I did see LBJ from a distance deplane Air Force 1 in 1965 at Hancock Field in Syracuse, NY. But that a far cry from meeting him[emoji51]


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[moralem]

Bill Wilson, Jerry Miculek and Magic Johnson

 

[erikpolcrack]

Colin Powell. Worked for him for a couple of years when he was a Lieutenant General. Great leader, nice guy. His wife Alma always seemed like a great person as well. She wanted to make breakfast for me one night about 2AM when I had to come to his quarters to inform him of some deaths in a training accident.

 

[Private Bailey]

Brad Pitt. As cool in real life as he is onscreen.

 

[Chubbo]

most famous person I’ve met; I question whether he was the most famous or the most infamous, but it was King Farouk of Egypt. We raced in a world championship Go Kart race held at the Rupp Raceway at Mansfield, Ohio.
Rupp raceway was the most elaborate Kart raceway in the world at the time.
King Farouk was much better at blathering, and squandering Egypt’s wealth, than he was at racing. I don’t recall if he finished a race. I wasn’t on the winner’s podium, but finished fourth overall, and I take great pride in that finishing position, more so, than any of my many wins in my several years of Go Kart racing. Furthermore, I've met many famous people but, King Farouk tops the list

Chubbo

 

[Faulkner]

I sat at the dinner table with Governor Bill Clinton at a conference and we chatted a bit. Some years late, I shook President Bill Clinton's hand at a meeting and he recalled that we had met before.

I met Arkansas first lady Hillary Rodham (she didn't take the Clinton name until they started running for president) while on business at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. She lived up to her unpleasant reputation.

I also shook President Obama's hand and had a short exchange with him as he was touring a tornado ravaged disaster scene in Arkansas.

I met Greggory "Pappy" Boyington at the Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Airport. I was about 19 years old and had flown in to refuel a Cessna 172 I was flying and he was in for a airshow the next day and was BS-ing with the guys in the hanger.

I met General Colin Powell at a conference in North Little Rock and sat at his table during lunch.

 

[jtcarm]

Roger Staubach.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Roger Staubach.

Me too. His name is revered here. His high school (Purcell Marian) is currently building a massive sports complex. It will be named Staubach Stadium next year upon completion.

He made $600 million with his commercial real estate company because people came first, money came second.

Do a search for humble and you will find him.

 

[jtcarm]

Bob Hayes, once was the fastest man on earth. We drank a lot. Nice guy.

It got lost somewhere, but I once had a game program with his autograph and just about every other member of the 1970-71 Cowboys.

A whole different era when professional athletes were real people.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My Dad...........He was better than anybody.