Who In History Would You Most Like To Have Met ?

I would loed to have met Jesus !

That should have read "I would have loved to have met Jesus" (sorry..)

I would like to meet God and ask him why he played such a rotten trick on his son, sending him down to Earth knowing we had it in for him. I mean who'd have him for a dad? That's the love of God for ye.

quickfind:lorisupertalent > "I would like to meet God"

Yes, I'd like to meet her too ;)

Oh, yep, I forgot, let's not be sexist here, she may have been a woman. Nobody will ever know. Mighty fine woman at that. Knew how to take care of obstreperous young sons.

I think we've had this thread before - or one very much like it.
Sadly departed parents or grandparents were probably the most popular 'historical' people we voted for.

As for me - maybe an evening chilling with John Lennon would be interesting...

Outside of interesting family members, I think David Thompson would have been a very interesting man to meet. Francis Drake, too. That covers Wales and England... Scotland... St. Margaret, I think lived in a very interesting time and was very influential. And she had travelled widely, too. I know she wasn't Scottish, but the country seemed to adopt her!

On a more serious note than my previous posting, I would maybe think. William Wallace or Henry VIII, or maybe Rabbie Burns.

I believe I would like to have met Moses!

He was the first to deliver the laws from God. And to speak to God.

There use to be a church in Semaphore with a huge sign that proclaimed that "JESUS SAVES"
Some wag once painted underneath "but Moses invests at 10% and makes a better prophet"
surprisingly, it didn't stay there long.

Getting back to the topic, John Maynard Keynes is someone I would have liked to have met.

And to speak to God.

I think Adam had him beat on that score.

William Wallace- Bruce Lee- Errol Flynn -St Patrick- John Wayne-Miyamoto Musashi -Toshitsugu Takamatsu -Rob Roy
Swordsman Donald McBane

That's all I can seem to think of right now! but its late here :)

Every time I read something about John Wayne by the people who already met him, they all say he wasn't a very nice person. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong books or newspapers. And anyway, I've met God, because my Uncle is so self righteous, we all call him God. Does that count?

I would have loved to meet Elvis Presley !

Salvadore Dali... .I would love to know what was going on in his head when he did his paintings.

Vincent Van Gogh too... for similar reasons.

Seurat also.. I want to know how he had the patience to do his kind of art work.

My dad was stationed at Longbeach, California, as a hospital administrator early in World War II. Because there was a shortage of housing, he lived in a garage apartment (flat) over a garage adjacent to a local Judge's house. The Judge's next door neighbor was (you guessed it) John Wayne. According to dad, Wayne constantly fought with his wife. While stationed in California, Dad also got to dance with Lorita Young at the Hollywood Canteen, and he once introduced Bob Hope.

Later in the War, Dad became a JAG officier stationed at the US 8th Air Force Headquarter outside of Cambridge. He once got to hand deliver a message to No. 10 Downing Street. Meeting Winston Churchill (which he didn't) tops meeting the Duke. Even so, when I was growing up, we had to see every John Wayne movie.

As for myself, I'd like to have been a fly on the wall during the Yalta Conference during World War II. I'm stuck trying to determine whether a James McDonald who was born in 1770 in Moore County, North Carolina, was a direct ancestor, so meeting Flora McDonald might be a good idea. Maybe she could help me with my family tree.

As for authors, I would have liked to have met Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. (I'm an English teacher.)

If you go into my photos and look at the photo of the Antoine camp (mansion), John Wayne used to visit there in the summer sometimes.

Martin Luther King ("I Have A Dream").
He made one of the best speeches in history !

Teddy Roosevelt. He was so straight forward and I like that type of attitude.

Could be I also heard that but I love his movies really
The Quiet Man being my fave :)

quickfind:erikm > "Could be I also heard that but I love his movies really
The Quiet Man being my fave :]"

Didn't know that Teddy Roosevelt starred in The Quiet Man ?

Sorry I was posting the reply about John Wayne.

I starred in two movies with John Wayne when I was a kid. He was a good guy...HOWEVER...his tastes in wives were terrible. They were both tyrants and wanted to run everything. I met his second wife. No wonder they fought! LOL

Somerled...fionn mac Chumhal :)

Without a doubt, my hero, Gandhi. A man who did not just free a nation but freed an entire sub-continent, and did so without personally spilling one drop of blood, but rather through a message of peace.