Wrong!!! I am!! Ha!!!
I was an extra on Dallas.
I have twice as many Tour de France titles as Lance Armstrong–and I did it without juicing!
And this.
My work is watched & enjoyed by approx. 55,000,000 people, either live in person or on national TV.
I was shown on the Evening News with Walter Cronkite, being held (in the footage) by Dr. Benjamin Spock during a civil rights rally. I was 6 months old or so. My grandmother was reportedly furious when she saw the news (the rallies quite often turned violent, and felt my mother should not have taken me there).
My name was never used, so this seem sufficiently anonymous not to identify me. It doesn’t make me “famous” in any real sense, either. I’ve had a (very) few other “fame bits” later, but my name was attached, so this is all I’m willing to own up to.
As far as I know, I was the only person to walk in on Alan Greenspan, sitting on the toilet in Ayn Rand’s apartment.
panache, your name sums you up so well. That’s a terrific claim to fame 
I have nothing to claim. Yet.
How polite is this post? “We hate you but possibly less than you think.”
I’ve written seven novels: five published on the web, one self-published, and one currently in editing that I also plan to self-publish. Also several thousand words worth of fiction and fluff material for a published pen-and-paper RPG.
Not really that big a deal and certainly not unique, but they might mention it in my obituary.
Shut up. A gal I went to High School with had MLK bail her parents out of jail during a demonstration and they were always like “Oh that MLK thing? PFFFT!” Come on.
My wife attended the MLK “I have a dream” speech in WDC and also saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium. She also has a signed letter from Jim Jones and protested for Cesar Chavez. The girl got around.
Pretty lame compaired to what others have posted, but I scare Hell’s Angels into picking their cigarette butts off the ground.
And, I have been involved in getting 2,798 cats fixed. I know an exact number because like Annie-Xmas, I keep a diary. I’ll bet that if anyone asked, I could go through them page by page and figure out how much cat food and litter I’ve bought.
I won’t do that. It would be too depressing.
I was in a band that did pretty well in our state and a few surrounding during the 90’s. People still know who we were this many years later.
I’ve been featured in the newspaper, on a commercial, and in a small movie, but none were really fame worthy, just got the attention of my school and friends.
The only time strangers came up to me and said “Were you that guy?” was on a cruise. The first night of the cruise at a bar, some staff dressed up as the Village People and I was caught on video dancing near them. They played that footage all through the cruise on the cruise channel, and various strangers came up to me during the cruise asking if I was “that guy dancing with the Village People”. I was.
My parents both have me beat though. My Mom grew up with, and walked to school with Bill Murray and his sister(s), and my Dad was roommates with Ric “Nature Boy” Flair in prep school.
My in-laws include a woman that married Michael Chrichton (Anne-Marie Martin I believe), and Jill Caroll who was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor who was famously held captive in Iraq. Friends of friends married both Eric Clapton, and Eric Schenkman who was the singer for the Spin Doctors.
I assisted with matters for Steven Bochco, which while very benign, I can’t really talk about. I also approved a line of credit for Aaron Spelling through one of his handlers.
None of the above make me famous in any way, but it’s interesting to see how and when people interact with celebrities, even if no actual fame comes of it.
Famous in her own right as an actress. Co-starred on Sledge Hammer, among other roles.
Anyone remember the old NAPA Parts Pups girly / joke magazine? I was the youngest pin-up pictured ever… I was 6 months old.
I also was on TV once. I was in winter band in high school, playing the piccolo. Our hockey team made it state, but lost in overtime. Most of the sports segments in our market closed that night’s portion with me looking forelornly out at the ice, a tear or two on my face. Sad, hunh?
I have a few.
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Wrote and self-published a novel, and also released a 31-episode free podcast/radio drama of the entire book.
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Was one of the sponsors leading a youth group hike to Waimea Falls in Hawaii and we got caught in a flash flood. Had to help organize our extraction efforts because one girl broke her leg and we had to carry her out to where she could be airlifted. Had to help carry/coax/cajole another girl who went into a full-blown panic attack at the sight of any water more than 2-inches deep. Ended up being interviewed on TV.
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Was on TV two or three times as a kid, playing my clarinet, on a small station in Taiwan.
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Co-hosted an English-speaking radio show in Indonesia.
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I have two of the most beautiful grand-daughters in the world who love me and call me “Papa”. Makes the rest of the stuff pale in comparison.
I wrote a chapter in a an archery book that has had good global sales. My particular chapter seems to have gotten more attention in Europe than America. I have also done a few Discovery Channel shows and am still recognised occassionaly on the street from that. One lady at a muffler shop insisted I come meet her son who just loved me LOL.
I was interviewed for a book about the lives of teenagers, once. My quotes were put in the chapter about suicide, which I hadn’t expected.
I don’t really have any worthy claims to fame. Even when I have been involved with something significant, it’s always been as “unimportant contributor near the bottom of the list.”
I wrote a piece for a popular Urban Legends website in their made up legends sections. It was then picked up and used on a TV show (as true), and a trivia game (also as true), and supposedly has been used in several student’s research papers.
I was called a nerd by Jay Leno in front of a room full of people.
I played trumpet with Maynard Ferguson.
I’ve had many conversations with Dorothy Letterman (yes, I know that isn’t her current last name) and she has held my kids. She lives/lived in my neighborhood… but I haven’t seen her in quite some time so I think she may have moved into an assisted living community.
I skied Mt. Chacaltaya.