CONFESS!!! Who was the first famous person you ever met

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14. Technically? Margaret Chase Smith.

She gave me a pair of baby shoes. I don't really remember the encounter.

Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940-1949) and a U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine.[1] She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.[2] A moderate Republican, she is perhaps best remembered for her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience," in which she criticized the tactics of McCarthyism.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith

As a teenager, I met Willie Davenport, a four time Olympian, and Gold medalist in the 60m hurtles in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Davenport

John L. Cotter unexpectedly visited a site I was working on about 15 years ago. He was a famous archaeologist that worked on Blackwater Draw (the first Clovis site) in the 1930's, and then went on to excavate Jamestown. That was quite a thrill! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Cotter

I guess I've done a pretty good job avoiding the famous, overall.