We all love meeting celebrities. Because of the geography that I live in right now, I have had the opportunity to meet quite a few of them over the past year.
I always had this list of people to meet in person before I die in my mind. Until a year ago, It was mostly more of a fantasy list. But once I moved to where I am now, the fantasy started becoming reality. So I wanted to transfer that list from my brain to a document so that I don't miss out on anyone if an opportunity knocks on the door.
Here is the list (in no particular order):
I will try to keep this list updated mostly as a record for myself rather than for the world to see.
-Vignesh
I always had this list of people to meet in person before I die in my mind. Until a year ago, It was mostly more of a fantasy list. But once I moved to where I am now, the fantasy started becoming reality. So I wanted to transfer that list from my brain to a document so that I don't miss out on anyone if an opportunity knocks on the door.
Here is the list (in no particular order):
Person | Who/What/Why? | Met/Been There? | Note/Souvenir |
---|---|---|---|
Thierry Henry | The person I respect the most in the world. | No | - |
Don Knuth | Father of modern computer science. | No | - |
Dennis Ritchie | Founder of C (The R in K&R). | Not possible anymore! | - |
Brian Kernighan | Founder of C (The K in K&R). | Yes | 2013-06-20: Autograph |
Linus Torvalds | Founder of Linux and Git. Strongly believes in whatever he believes in. | No | - |
Robert Love | A huge contributor to the Linux kernel. | Yes | 2013-06-13: Autograph |
Bjarne Stroustrup | Founder of C++. | Yes | 2013-08-15: Picture with him & Autograph |
Randall Munroe | He is a hero of mine and worship his sense of Sarcasm and Wit | No | - |
Matthew Perry | My most favorite actor in the world. | No | - |
Lisa Kudrow | My most favorite actress in the world. | No | - |
Michael Schumacher | He was a huge inspiration as i grew up watching him win. | No | - |
Larry & Sergey | My role models in life. | Yes | Every Fridays (now every Thursdays). |
Matt Cutts | One of the early employees of Google and famous for his work on Web Spam. | Yes | 2012-12-20: Lunch |
Jeff Dean | The most bad-ass engineer ever. | Yes | 2013-01-22: A walk around Charleston Park |
Stade De France | My most favorite football stadium in the world. | No | - |
Nou Camp | The holy grail of football. | No | - |
The Corrs (Sharon Corr) | My most favorite band and most favorite violinist. | No | - |
Felicity Huffman | Her character's attitude in Desperate Housewives resembles almost 100% that of my wife. | No | - |
Jim Parsons | Who wouldn't wanna meet him? | No | - |
Ramsus Lerdorf | Founder of PHP. The language i have written most of my code in. | No | - |
Jeffrey Archer | Most favorite author in the world. | No | - |
Paolo Maldini | I grew up watching him play. Perfect combination of style and class. | No | - |
Arsene Wenger | I grew up watching him. One of the most inspirational people. | No | - |
Vint Cerf | The reason why we all have a job. Founder of TCP. | Yes | 2012-11-20: Said hi and shook hands |
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | A person who can talk with violin. | Not possible anymore! | - |
Ron Rivest | The R in RSA. | No | - |
Petr Mitrichev | Has been Topcoder #1 for many years. | No | - |
Mary Lynn Rajskub | Second most favorite actress. | No | - |
I will try to keep this list updated mostly as a record for myself rather than for the world to see.
-Vignesh