# Which famous people have you met? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166 "2016-07-05T22:26:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/61 "2016-07-06T19:19:33Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Isaac Asimov > [@MLS](#): > > Isaac Asimov Bastards! šŸ˜ƒ [ul]Alton Brown [li]Mario Van Peebles[/li][li]MC Hammer (when he was still popularā€”his style of dress was not just for the videos)[/li][li]Chris Rock[/li][li]A number of professional baseball players and professional bowlers[/li][\*]A number of local TV and radio personalities[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/62 "2016-07-06T19:54:48Z")
Pretty sure weā€™ve done this multiple times over the years. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17869141&postcount=123](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17869141&postcount=123) More recently, met Will Smith and his entire family at a restaurant in NYC last month. ---
**Author:** ![Doubticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e56c9b/32.png) [@Doubticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubticus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/63 "2016-07-06T20:00:32Z")
Famous John deLancie Bruce Campbell Felicia Day Katie Sackhoff Billie Piper Wil Wheaton Christina Applegate Bobby Mcferrin Less Famous Colleen Atwood Geoff Notkin Warrel Dane Jeff Loomis Michael Stackpole Scott Kurtz ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/64 "2016-07-06T20:20:39Z")
Iā€™ve met a lot of people at conventions and the like, but these were often very brief introductions and no more. Some Iā€™ve spent more time with. A very few I spent a lot of time with . Lotta Time: Arthur Kantrowitz ā€“ founder of Avco Everett Research Lab, inventer of many things, president of L-5 society. Lee Moyer ā€” fantasy/sf artist Talked with for quite a while: L. Sprague de Camp Jack Kirby Orson Scott Card ā€“ he even critiqued one of my stories Brief: Harlan Ellison Isaac Asimov Elizabeth Warren Harry Turtledove There are plenty of others Iā€™ve just shaken hands with, or attended lectures. More than I can count, actually. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/65 "2016-07-07T02:59:16Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I ran into Nina Hartley (a huge 1980ā€™s porn star) at the airport counter at the tiny Lebanon, NH airport. Along those lines, **Nina Hartley** , but also **Peter North** , **Christy Canyon** , and **Janine Lindemulder** ā€¦ but not all of them at the same time. That wouldā€™ve beenā€¦ _weird!_ > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Most of these were at book signings and at sci-fi conventions Yeah, thatā€™s one way to do it. Thatā€™s how I met **Bruce Campbell** , **[Kenichi Sonoda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi_Sonoda)**, **[Adam Warren](https://twitter.com/empoweredcomic)**, and the stars of _The Karate Kid_: **Ralph Macchio** , **Billy Zabka** , and **Marty Kove**. [Barney Stinson is _nothing_ like Ralph Macchio!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzx6iVPvR88) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/66 "2016-07-07T03:12:20Z")
Cybill Shepherd, Steven Segal, Al Green, and Mark McGwire. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/67 "2016-07-07T04:44:32Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > Along those lines, **Nina Hartley** , but also **Peter North** , **Christy Canyon** , and **Janine Lindemulder** ā€¦ but not all of them at the same time. That wouldā€™ve beenā€¦ _weird!_ I think the word you are looking for is orgy. My tiny list: Felicia Day (drive to Portland & Seattle for her book signings last year.) Tanya Tucker (back when she was still a teenage sensation) Hal Clement (got tongue tied trying to talk to him) James White (same) Anne McCaffrey (and again) Frederick Pohl (there is a theme here) James Doohan (he sat for hours smiling and talking until everybody in the line got through) Neil Gaiman (back to the theme) Terry Pratchett (such a wonderful man I was able to chat a bit) Katherine Kurtz (several nice chats with her) Harry Turtledove (never said anything, couldnā€™t get a word in edgewise) George R. R. Martin (fun to talk to, DONā€™T ASK ABOUT THE NEXT BOOK. Really) Kate Elliott (absolutely wonderful to talk to, donā€™t get the chance very often) Lots of other SF&F writers. Conventions are wonderful things. Oh, Kim Stanley Robinson, really friendly, nice to talk to, so is Jack Campbell (John Hemry). And I better stop. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/68 "2016-07-07T04:59:03Z")
Donnie Osmond once had me thrown out of a radio studio. Robert Goulet told me I needed to zip up my coat one winter when I passed him on the streets of Louisville, Kentucky. Ajay Naidu, who played Samir in ā€œOffice Space,ā€ sidled up next to me in a bar in New York City. George Carlin Del Close The bands Ratt, Tesla, Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue, Lita Ford I called Michael Stipe a ā€œcocksuckerā€ to his face. I met Jennifer Lawrence once, but it was years ago, and I didnā€™t have any idea who she was (this was before she because well-known). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/69 "2016-07-07T05:47:39Z")
Is Robin Curtis famous enough? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/70 "2016-07-07T06:20:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I called Michael Stipe a ā€œcocksuckerā€ to his face. Details, please!!! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/71 "2016-07-07T08:37:59Z")
I totally forgot one: When I was about 12, I had a lengthy conversation with Sir Edmund Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![Rantini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Rantini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rantini)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/72 "2016-07-07T08:43:54Z")
Katherine Hepburn Bette Davis Gregory Peck Van Johnson Robert Mitchum Robert Redford Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward Sidney Pollack Mel Brookes and his wife Ann Bancroft Robert Redford Princesses Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco Lord Grade - British media proprietor and impresario Mollie Sugden - British actress, played Mrs Slocambe in Are You Being Served Anthony Valentine, actor, starred in UK TV productions of Colditz and Raffles Tom Stoppard, playwright and his wife Dr Miriam Stoppard Ed Stoppard, actor, son of above Daniel Day-Lewis and his mother Jill Balcon Barbara Knox, William Roache, Bill Waddington - actors from popular long running UK soap Coronation Street. ---
**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/73 "2016-07-07T12:10:19Z")
I sold a hand held device to Slavoj Žižek if that counts ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/74 "2016-07-07T13:13:25Z")
Iā€™ve met a ton of Broadway actors at stage doors. The famous people who know me include Bruce Harper, Brenda Blackmon and Rudolph Isley. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/75 "2016-07-07T13:17:32Z")
None to speak of. A bunch of my friends meet a lot of celebs at conventions, but I donā€™t go to those, and my life is not very social, so nobody of note has passed my way. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/76 "2016-07-07T13:23:19Z")
Back in the '80s I went through a revolving door with John Lithgow. Ah, the crazy '80s. After college I was roommates with Bob Christian, who went on to become an NFL fullback with Carolina and Atlanta. N.T. Wright, British theologian and author. As I kid I shook hands with Ted Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/77 "2016-07-07T13:25:41Z")
Debbie Thomas, Kristi Yamaguchi and Surya Bonaly (figure skaters) Jeremy Paxman (UK TV presenter) I sat next to Festus Mogae, the former president of Botswana, at a formal dinner. He was a lovely gentleman! I donā€™t know how famous they are, but I went to high school, and acted in plays, with Zach Gilford (Matt Saracen on Friday Night Lights) and Jessie Mueller (Tony winning actress who played Carole King in ā€˜Beautifulā€™ and is currently starring in ā€˜Waitressā€™). I was invited to an odd dinner party where the host hinted at a famous personage who had been invited but was not clear on whether he was going to show up. Alas, he didnā€™t, because otherwise I would be able to say I met Boris Johnson (currently disgraceful UK politician). I can only hope I would have said something devastating witty and insulting to him if he had shown upā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/78 "2016-07-07T17:24:25Z")
Garret Popcorn? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/79 "2016-07-07T17:25:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > None to speak of. A bunch of my friends meet a lot of celebs at conventions, but I donā€™t go to those, and my life is not very social, so nobody of note has passed my way. You sure know how to tease us. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166/80 "2016-07-07T18:51:18Z")
Letā€™s see ā€¦ As a Cub Scout I got to meet Washingtonā€™s then-Governor Dan Evans. Former NFL player Manu Tuiasosopo was the guest speaker at a Christian menā€™s dinner I was for some reason invited to in my 20s. In 1990 I met former NFL player Ervin ā€œBlueprintā€ Parker when he came into the restaurant where I cooked at the time. He ran some anti-drug program where he would bring current NFL players to schools to talk to the kids, and he was scouting places to bring the players for dinner. He picked our place, and I ended up, a few weeks later, getting to be the one to cook steaks for several Seattle Seahawks players. I got to meet them all and have my photo taken with them. In 1996 or so I met Joey Cora, then the Seattle Marinersā€™ 2nd baseman. I have met former Tool bassist Paul Dā€™Amour (his parents attend the same small church I attend). However, I met him when he was still in high school, so Iā€™m not sure if that counts. In 2006 I met Montanaā€™s then-Governor, Brian Schweitzer. [Made a thread about it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387672). Iā€™m not sure how ā€œfamousā€ she is, but Iā€™m closely related to well-regarded childrenā€™s book author, Barbara Jean Hicks. We havenā€™t actually met in person (unless it was when I was very young), but weā€™ve communicated via Facebook and she has read and evaluated some of my amateur writing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-famous-people-have-you-met/759166.md?page=5)