real people you wish you could have met

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Which real people in hitsory would you want to meet if it were possible?

Some of mine:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ludwig von Beethoven

Alan Turing

JRR Tolkien

Geronimo or indeed a number of the Native American leaders from the 19th century

Ingrid Jonker



among others....

Alice Cooper (yea, he's still alive).
Bach definetly.
Teslar.
Albert Einstein.
Abraham Lincoln.

This question is more difficult to answer than the parallel one regarding fictional characters. Certainly, it would have been mind-boggling to have met Bernadette Soubirous.

Jesus

Moses

Andre Norton

Shirley Jackson

Lewis Carroll

The librarians of the Royal Library of Alexandria

Good question. Keeping it down to people I wish I *could* have met, and not people I could still possibly meet since they're still alive:

Kurt Cobain <--- If no one else, this is my top pick.
Cliff Burton
Layne Staley
Dwayne Goettel
Dimebag Darrell
Jeff Hanneman
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Audie Pitre

Now for people who weren't rock stars or musicians:

Douglas Adams
Nikola Tesla
Albert Einstein
Lewis Carroll
JRR Tolkein
Gary Gygax
Gary Kildall
H.P. Lovecraft

I've just noticed they're all dudes.

Benjamin Franklin

Ho chi Minh

Georgy Zhukov

Mary Hansen of Stereolab, british band

Hideki Tojo

Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Harry A. Franck
Eddie Rickenbacker
Eric "Winkle" Brown (still alive)
Ayn Rand

Ila Fox Loetscher
Archie Carr

John Wyndham
Benjamin Franklin
Charles M. Schulz
Peter Sellers
Ingrid Jonker
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Charles Dickens
Dr Elizabeth Blackwell

Jesus

Elvis Presley

Marilyn Monroe

Abraham Lincoln

Victor Hugo

Louis L'Amour

Nicolas Tesla
Albert Einstein
Alan Turing
Isaac Newton
Socrates
Max Schopenhauer
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pyotr Kropotkin
Nestor Makhno
Henry David Thoreau
J.R.R. Tolkien.
Graham Chapman
John Lennon
Kurt Cobain
If I had to choose, I would be torn between Wittgenstein, Thoreau and Lennon.

Tesla, to be sure
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt (I'm related)
Franklin Roosevelt (I'm related)
Aristotle
Aquinas
Hypatia
Darwin
John Paul II
William Wallace
Nelson Mandella
Anton Checkov
Madeline L'Engel
Bob Marley
Louis Pasteur
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hans Asperger
Lech Walesa
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ghandi
Charlemagne
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
George MacDonald
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Mark Twain
Any of the Kennedys no longer with us
Edgar Allen Poe
Josephus
Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo
Saladin
Neil Armstrong
Immanuel Kant
Luther
Eric the Red
Abel Tasman
Jacques Costeau
Pablo Neruda
Salvador Dali
Queen Elizabeth I
Boudica
Archimedes
Napoleon
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I feel like I'm forgetting a few important ones... and the list would expand considerably if I could include living people...

Wow. Call me unsociable, but I can't think of anyone that I would particularly like to meet.

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