After reading 39 pages, I've decided to add my 2 cents since I've met a couple people that haven't been mentioned yet.
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. Met him at the Paris Air Show shortly before he decided to kick NATO out of France. No, Our chance meeting wasn't a contributing factor in his decision.
Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. Also at a Paris Air Show, but different year. Oddly enough, several years after his death, his grand niece and my niece are sharing a house. I had no idea she was his grand-niece (different last name) until I was admiring some exquisitely detailed model planes that seemed completely out of place in the home of two women (not that women aren't into airplanes, but these two collect Pandas, Windmills and Lighthouses) and she commented that her uncle had designed them. Then she brought out a scrapbook containing about every newspaper article ever written about Kelly and other memorabilia, and I spent several hours learning more about I guy that I had met briefly many, many years earlier. Incidently, he is best known for his engineering skills, but I suspect his management skills were just as good, if not better, than his engineering skills.
Flipping the coin over, there is a famous person I've
never met, but I'm sorta-kinda "related" to. Terry Bradshaw and I share a common aunt and uncle. They are both gone now, but his father's sister married my father's brother. That would probably make us cousins once removed or cousins-in-law or something along those lines, but we've never met and probably never will unless our paths accidentally cross in the future.
JohnnieB