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Most famous person I met... probably Gene Simmons.

I did see the then candidate Trump. I was downtown and one his rallies happened to be going on. Didn’t meet him.
 
I guess it all depends on how you define "In person". Does attending a concert count? Or what about a sporting event?

As far as face to face, as a kid I got an autograph from Harry Caray (former legendary TV broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. Died in 1998.)
I also shook hands with Jeremy Roenick. (Former NHL hockey player)

I think the most famous though would have to be Dennis Quaid. When I was in college, they filmed a movie in and around the town of my university, and I went with my friend to set when they were looking for extras to be part of a crowd in the background. It was a pretty neat experience, but we didn't make it into the final cut of the film in the end. Zac Efron and Heather Graham were also in the movie, but they weren't a part of that scene, so I never got to meet them or see them face to face.
 
I saw the guy who played Luke Cage once in a mall, but I was too shocked that I saw a Hollywood star in Serbia to ask for a pic or something.
 
Famous people I’ve actually met and spoken to:
Bruce Dickinson
Adrian Smith
Kai Hansen
Bill Clinton
Edit: William Sessions

Other semi-famous people I had close encounters with, but didn’t speak to:
Sara Gilbert
Kellie Martin
Martin Donovan

I’m not counting stuff like concerts, plays, or TV show tapings where you’re in the same venue with someone you’ve gotten a ticket to see.
 
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He came to speak at my college while I was there in the early 90s, and some friends and I got to speak to him briefly after his appearance. Not that deep. Some pleasantries, and we jokingly invited him to a kegger that evening, which he said he’d love to attend, but he was a little busy.

More amusing was having William Sessions, then-director of the FBI, watch a 1992 presidential debate in a friend’s dorm room on pirated cable because the common room in our dorm was too packed at the time. Sessions had been on campus that day for a Q&A, and we recognized him and offered to let him watch upstairs in the dorm room instead, and he took us up on the offer. (Probably should have put him on my list of famous people...)
 
When I was a kid, I went to the zoo with my cousin once. As we were about to go out, we saw a massive crowd at the exit. We stuck around to see what it was about. A few minutes later, Michael Jackson walked in, surrounded by about ten or fifteen bodyguards, one of whom was carrying Bubbles.

I also pass by Angela Merkels flat on my way to work. Never actually saw her there (only once, from very far away) but there's always somebody taking a photo of the doorbell. For the record, her name is not there, only that of her husband. They don't share last names.

A few months ago, I was guiding a group in the museum and got kicked out of a room by the mayor of Berlin. I hope to be able to retaliate by kicking him out of his workplace in the elections next year.

Since I work in downtown Berlin, I see a lot of world leaders, politicians, journalists, etc on occasion, and plenty of heads of states have passed by me in cars, I remember the Dutch queen, the Mongolian president, a Saudi prince and others. I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger when I ran into a premiere, I have a photo with his face somewhere in the lower left corner. I also pass by the house of a somewhat famous German actress sometimes because it's on the way to the library.

The most famous person I actually met is Steve Harris. I hung around his hotel in Paris for an hour with some friends back in 2008. When he came out, he wanted to run straight for his car but saw there were only a handful of fans so he decided to stay for a bit. He stood there, signing pictures and occasionally looking up into a camera when asked. I have a picture with Steve, and the man probably never actually saw me. I actually talked to Blaze Bayley, although with only 60 people turning out to see him that night, it could be argued that some colleagues of mine have larger audiences and are thus more famous. I also met and briefly talked to Mark Tremonti at the airport after a gig. The only time I was really starstruck was when I met the band leader of Atlantean Kodex. But I was also a bit drunk then, because I had hung out with the singer before. I also have a photo with Alan Averill and I believe I could say that I know Götz Kühnemund.

I think those are most of my celebrity stories not counting those when I barely missed somebody, and not counting people I saw doing their jobs (gigs, political rallies, etc). I'm not actually particularly interested in meeting celebrities.
 
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I might finish watching Game of Thrones today, and then I will post my thoughts at some point in the coming week.

Spoiler: They won't be kind thoughts.
 
I haven't really seen anyone famous in an international scale, aside from concerts which probably doesn't count. If it does, then Bruce Dickinson is the most famous person I've seen in person.

If it doesn't count, then just some former Ministers and former/current MPs. I haven't been around though, so it's only natural. Never been abroad, lived 18 years in a city that no famous person would visit.
 
I've shook hands with Bruce Dickinson at his book signing, but I suppose that doesn't count. I properly met Frank Bello and Gary Holt at a guitar clinic in 2018 and then saw both of them in concert the next night.

Coincidentally, I also got to see Holt again last night with Exodus.
 
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