What dead people whom you've not met would you most like to?

[Deja Q]

Though I wouldn't go grave robbing if I were you...

[WinkyDink]

1. Tyrone Power (call me shallow!); the real Shakespeare author; the Great Pyramid's architect.

[Radio_Lady]

4. Great choices, WinkyDin. Those are three I'd choose -- plus Vincent Van Gogh,

Pablo Picasso (sassy!), and actor/singer Richard Kiley (I loved him in "The Little Prince" and "Man of La Mancha.")

[AwakeAtLast]

2. Salieri

Oh the tales he would have to tell...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri


Second choice would be Maria Callas.


If you asked me again tomorrow, my choices would probably be different. These two will do for today. :hi:

And your choices? :shrug:

[ThatsMyBarack]

3. Three I can think of at random.

1. Princess Diana.
2. Samantha Smith. (Ten-year-old girl who wrote to the Soviet leader in 1984)
3. Bob Hope.

[Guava Jelly]

5. k

Frank Sinatra
John Lennon
Freddie Mercury
Martin Luther King

[jobycom]

12. k?

He's not dead.

[sellitman]

6. Jimi Hendrix

Would he now be playing an Air Guitar?

[NewEnglandGirl]

7. JFK and JFK Jr. nt

[carlyhippy]

8. John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Princess Diana

Carly

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Carl Sagan.

I'd love to sit up all night, smoke some dope, and shoot the shit with him.

[nytemare]

18. I miss Carl Sagan.

The man was amazing, and we could use him now. Richard Dawkins and Michio Kaku have taken the torch, so to speak, but none seem to have the appeal that Carl had.

[PassingFair]

10. Thomas Jefferson....

J.S. Mill....Charles Dickens....Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

and many, many more.

[jobycom]

11. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, Sylvester II, Muhammad, George Washington.

Y'all can keep all those artists. Most of them were egotistical nut-jobs. Their art is the best way to know them.

I want to know power. Visionary, world-changing power. How did these brilliant leaders convince people to change, to move beyond what they had always believed to embrace a new world? Were they each sincere, or were their beliefs adapted to appeal to their subjects? In the case of Muhammad, I can't really doubt his sincere devotion, but I would love to see how he expressed himself, how he convinced those around him that God spoke to him directly. I would love to know how many of those around him believed sincerely, and how many were using him for political power. I'd love to understand the human dynamics behind those powers.

[DeepBlueC]

13. Simone de Beauvoir

[MichiganVote]

14. Lincoln, Julius Caesar, FDR. Non leaders- probably my own ancestors

[JonLP24]

15. Bobby and Heather

older brother and sister that died when I was 11 months old. I don't remember them I was too young.But would like to know who they were.

[kat_kringle]

16. there's a few:

voltaire, em forester, jane austen, phil hartman and gilda radner (sp?).

[grannylib]

17. My grandpa (mom's dad; he died about 10 years before I was born) Katharine Hepburn

Margaret Sanger
Lowell George
John Lennon

[Mutley]

19. Stanley Kubrick.

[charlie and algernon]

20. Ben Franklin

I want to hear his stories.

[YankeyMCC]

21. Herodotus and Thucydides

preferably in the same room at the same time. Let's get those discrepancies ironed out once and for all!

[Lil Missy]

22. Johnny Carson

[Sultana]

23. um,

Bob Marley
Audrey Hepburn
Alexander the Great
Jesus

[TankLV]

24. Bush and Cheney...

That opportunity for regrets will never be too soon...

[ChazII]

25. Ben Franklin, Boadicea and Queen Eliz. 1st n/t

[Zhade]

26. Jim Henson. Mark Twain. Jesus, if he ever existed. Too many others to name.

NT!

[RushIsRot]

27. Henry David Thoreau

He's my inspiration and hero. I doubt that he'd be as delighted as I might be at a meeting.