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Mostly old science fiction writers, Ronald Reagan, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Reagan: got his autograph and a hearty handshake back in the'70s at a Boy's State convention in California. Actually don't like him, but he had real balls: stood up and told a crowd of 1000 horny high school seniors that abstinence was the only real birth control. We knew a master bullshitter when we saw one, and gave him a standing ovation. His hair was orange from a bad dye job.
The old science fiction writers:
Harlan Ellison (several times)
Robert Silverberg (house sat for him once, my wife and I slept in his bed)
Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Fritz Leiber (a real gent, visited him at home), Theodore Sturgeon (he had a goat on his lap), Jerry Pournelle (drunk both times), Heinlein (just a handshake), William F. Nolan (wrote the original book "Logan's Run") and a bunch of others who may possibly be famous now but I stopped reading sf 20 years ago and wouldn't know.
Arnold I met at the grand opening of a gym in my home town. He was buddies with the gym owner, old time bodybuilding champ Dave Draper, who I do know fairly well.
Walter Mondale : congratulated him on a speech he'd just given, but that won't mean anything to you unless you were voting in the '80s or live in Minnesota. He has a limp fish handshake, by the way.
Performance artist Mark Pauline of Survival Research Lab. Went over to his warehouse once and he started up a few (moderately nondestructive) death machines for me.
Haven't met anyone even moderately famous in 10 years. Guess I don't get out much anymore.
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