Name Two famous people you have met in person

Bjork

Michael Jackson

Prince

PeeWee Herman

I met a bunch of gay porn stars

Robert Christgau

Mo Chitlins

Bruce Springsteen

Emil Zatopek

Virginia Madsen.

Ronald Reagan

Janice Joplin

Four times flying out of San Jose (and on no other trips), I have sat next to a 'celebrity' on the plane:

Ashton Kutcher (to LA)

Heidi Fleiss (to LV)

the porn star Gauge (to LV)

Cliff Levingston (6'8" in coach) (to Phoenix/Atlanta)

Gauge?

Are you serious?

Charlie sheen

Dave chapelle

Mike Bloomberg

Tatum O'Neal

Muhammed Ali

Joe Montana

Joe Nameth

Heather French

Fabio

The Ultimate Warrior

Ernie Banks

Harmon Killibrew

Chris Collinsworth

Garth Brooks

Is that two yet?

William Proxmire

Jon Gruden

Sterling Sharpe

Probably a few more but memory fades. I have autographs from about half of them. Spent the most time with Ernie "Let's play two" Banks and Heather French (2000 Miss America and wife of KY's Lt Gov).

Perch wrote:

Muhammed Ali

Joe Montana

Joe Nameth

Heather French

Fabio

The Ultimate Warrior

Ernie Banks

Harmon Killibrew

Chris Collinsworth

Garth Brooks

Is that two yet?

William Proxmire

Jon Gruden

Sterling Sharpe

Probably a few more but memory fades. I have autographs from about half of them. Spent the most time with Ernie "Let's play two" Banks and Heather French (2000 Miss America and wife of KY's Lt Gov).

Damn, nice list! I've met some assorted WWE wrestlers (showed up at my gym) and a couple "famous" runners. But my only real celebrity is Charles Barkley. Great guy, easy to talk to, shaking his hand was like shaking an oven mitt.

I hung out with Alec Baldwin and his daughters at the beach in easthampton omce when I was a kid. Had no idea who he was at the time

If you are talking random real life encounters, I sold a couple of ceiling fans to Sydnee Maree when I was in High School and had a job at a home center store. None of my coworkers knew who he was.

I worked at the old Jumbo Elliott meet at Villanova in the 1980s and held the blocks for Carl Lewis and brought his tracksuit to him after he won the 200. I also got a bunch of autographs from big names from the day, Steve Scott, J Edwin Moses, Centro, Sr.

Don Ho

Sarah Palin

George W. Bush

Lots of runners-- Bernard Lagat, Alberto Salazar, Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Deena Kastor, Molly Huddle, Matthew Centrowitz, plenty more

Jimmy Carter

Paul Newman

Michael Caine

Eva Marie Saint

Meat Loaf

Steve Miller

Ray Manzarek (of The Doors)

John Madden (NFL coach and announcer)

Leonard Nimoy

Billy Squier

Barbara Walters

Tom Brokaw

Legit Question was the primary pro flat earther from that big "I can't believe flat earthers are a thing" thread a few months ago. I don't think you need to tell him about conspiracies

Edwin Moses

Steve Perry

Tom Ridge

Carly Fiorina

George Malley

Tina Turner

Sasha Grey

Mother Theresa

I went to the Swarthmore Last Chance invite a few weeks ago to watch some of my teammates run. I also got to meet Nick Willis, David Torrence, and Will Leer. All of them seemed very nice, and David Torrence had some cards that Hoka made for him to sign, so he was happy to give me one of those. They also all signed my shoes that I had just retired. Very nice people.

Camera On wrote:

Mary Steenburgen (very nice)

Ted Danson (Mary's husband but reserved)

Agree with your thoughts on Mary Steenburgen.

I know Mary from her 1970s waitress days at Noah's Ark in NYC. She lived a couple of blocks from us (nextdoor to Steve Martin) on 81st St. My dancer GF also worked at Noah's and they were good friends.

I was having dinner in Rao's awhile ago and Bill Clinton was at the next table. As is normal for Rao's a lot of cross table talk went on. I knew he and Mary were friends and we spent a few minutes talking about how smart and sweet she was.. Even before Clinton was governor Mary was talking him up as Presidential material.

Princess Grace of Monaco ranks as my number one on my reigning monarchs /former heads of state I have met list.