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Have you a hero/public figure/someone you admire a great deal that you haven't met and would like to meet? Who would it be? Living or dead is ok.

I'd love to spend some time with Harper Lee, who wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird," and I'd like to meet Barbara Walters, too. What an interesting life SHE'S had!

Maybe Stephen King..to poke around inside his head a bit.

And former Buffalo Bill/SD Charger etc, Doug Flutie. He has done alot to raise autism awareness among football faqns.

The Dalai Lama

Bruce Springsteen. For me THE greatest artist EVER

Too many people, lots of science people of course, musicans as well, but muso's can be an awkward bunch and I wouldn't want to get me illusions shattered by some grumpy sod. I would like to meet Gore Vidal, he has seen it all, I bet he knows a thing or two, and Rodger Penrose, as then I could ask him what the book he wrote "The Road to Reality" is about!, I am lost, he is too clever for me, he would be someone who might be interesting. I'd really love to meet any of the people who have walked on the moon, my god what a life experience to be the only living things in the history of the planet to have seen the Earth from the moon, too much to take in!

In terms of history, any of the Early Roman emperors (well maybe not Caligula), Jesus (of course), some of the great Greeks like Erasthrophenes, or Democritus, Buddha, Galileo (I would love to tell him he was right, and that he would be remembered for it), not Newton, he was a genius, but not a nice man. I'd like to call in on Hitler as well, stuff the paradoxes, he was always wondering about how history would judge him, I'd like to let him know, before I strangled him that is.

GORE VIDAL! YES! He's so witty and clever! And...he's known so many interesting people.

I'd like to meet poor, doomed Marilyn Monroe, too.

Historical figure: Alexander the Great

Current figure: Governor Arnold :-4

JESUS

Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Einstein

bas rutten, just the charisma , of the guy :-6

Albert Einstein

Edgar Allan Poe

Mata Hari

Marie Curie

Queen Victoria

I'm a bit shallow but that's ok - I'd like to meet John Wyndham (author of the Day of the Triffids and others), JRR Tolkein, Nevil Shute just to find out how they drew their inspiration for their writing.



Living people - just Viggo Mortensen 'cos I fancy him rotten:-4

i would have to say Madonna.

A few of the ones mentioned already but I'll add in

Nikola Tesla

Ooo! Good call Koan! I usually have him on my list too.

i'd like to meet koan so i can run up and give her a big hug and ruin her day :wah: :wah: :wah: :wah:

i know kung fu

koan;482415 wrote: i know kung fu


ouch :-3 :-3

Elvis and Winston Churchill. :-6

sunny104;482570 wrote: Elvis and Winston Churchill. :-6


I guess I am tired. My very first thought was "Elvis Churchill??"

Marie5656;482574 wrote: I guess I am tired. My very first thought was "Elvis Churchill??"




:wah: Beat me to it Marie!!

I'm strange, I know....

Got to be Michelangelo - to clarify a couple of conflicting reports about the grave robbing incidents!!!! )

Steve Mcqueen, cause he was just too cool. would have been a riot to party with him.

Thomas Jefferson, Henry the 8th and Ben Franklin!

Oh...

chad kroeger (nickelback)

jake shears (scissor sisters)

matthew fox (lost)

joseph fiennes

tom cruise

All for obvious reasons!.......ok im shallow :rolleyes:

Let's see that's a difficult one.

Ghandi

Mother Theresa

Bruce Willis

Bono

And many more, but I'd give up a year just to spend 15 minutes with my parents again. :-4

Yes....understood.