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• Boyle Roche — Irish soldier, politician and wit
• Tiger Roche — disreputable alleged brother of Sir Boyle Roche
• Thomas Jevon — English actor and dramatist
• Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare — Irish landowner and politician
• John Frush Knox — American memoirist
• Lou Levy (pianist) — American jazz pianist
• Lou Levy (publisher) — American music publisher
• Irish bulls — humorously self-contradictory statements and some people famous for making them
• The Goldwyn Girls — a troupe of musical comedy dancers
• Yosef Almogi — Israeli politician
• New York State Route 104B — insignificant highway
• Texas, New York and New York, Texas — two insignificant hamlets
• New York State Route 481 — highway from Oswego to Syracuse (and vice versa)
• Katharine Sergeant Angell White — New Yorker editor and wife of E. B. White
• Jacques Rivière — French man of letters
• Harold F. Clayton — American sculptor and stone carver
• Tanzan, Tetsugen and Subhuti — Japanese Zen Masters
• Nevil Maskelyne (magician) — British magician and inventor
• The Brasher Doubloon — famous old coin
• Stuart Merrill — French symbolist poet
• Millard Kaufman — American screenwriter and novelist
• Billy Lee Brammer — American writer
• Old Leighlin — small village in Ireland
• Victor Schertzinger — American film director and composer
• Edward Austin Sheldon — American educator
• Oswego Movement — influential 19th century American educational movement
• The Gay Place — trilogy of novellas by Billy Lee Brammer
• Whitfield Cook — American writer
• Hoes Heights, Baltimore and Old Town, Baltimore — Baltimore neighborhoods
• Bianca Bagnarelli — cartoonist and illustrator
• Rimrock Lake and Cuisson Lake — two adjacent lakes in BC
• Dmitri Usatov — Russian tenor and music teacher
• Love and Pain (painting) — Munch painting often called Vampire
• Clay County High School — Kentucky secondary school
• Clay Blaker — Texas country singer-songwriter
• Alberto Pla y Rubio — Spanish impressionist painter
• Dark Lake (Independence Township, Michigan) — two lakes in Michigan
• Tom Pedi — American actor
• Syrup of figs — a laxative
• Tim White and Trevor White — award-winning fraternal film producers
• Scarlett Place — Baltimore condo building

"Met" means, at a minimum, that I either introduced myself or was introduced by name, and that I and the listed person said at least a few words to each other. Simply being in the same room is neither necessary nor sufficient.

1. Samuel Adler — met when he was music director at the temple I went to in Dallas
2. Kaveh Akbar — son's English professor
3. Yosef Almogi (d. 1991) — distant cousin
4. Marc Auslander — met professionally
5. John Baird — met at a wedding
6. Bianca Bagnarelli — my girlfriend's niece
7. Brian A. Barsky — friend of a friend
8. Patricia Bernstein — cousin
9. Ewan Birney — my son's graduate advisor
10. Grady Booch — met on a visit to Rational Software
11. John Browning (d. 2003) — met backstage
12. Bill Buxton — friend of a friend
13. Loren Carpenter — met at SIGGRAPH
14. Lee Child — in same drama club at university
15. Ramsey Clark (d. 2021) — friend of the family
16. Harold F. Clayton (d. 2015) — met over the phone
17. Ted Codd (d. 2003) — met at a conference
18. Kenneth H. Cooper — met at the Cooper Aerobics Center
19. John Cornyn — voted in the precinct where I was an election judge
20. Mike Cowlishaw — met professionally
21. Nikki Craft — met at KCHU in Dallas
22. Elijah Cummings (d. 2019) — met in the garage behind his Baltimore office
23. Hugh Darwen — met professionally
24. Christopher J. Date — met professionally
25. Robert H. Dedman Sr. (d. 2002) — father's law partner
26. August Derleth (d. 1971) — met over the phone while ordering a book
27. Lloyd Doggett — met at a political event
28. Nick Donofrio — met professionally
29. Michael Douglas — met at a press conference
30. Taissa Farmiga — met at a screening of Jamesy Boy
31. Jane Fonda — met at a press conference
32. Alain Fournier (d. 2000) — close friend
33. Henry Fuchs — met while at UT Dallas
34. Bamber Gascoigne (d. 2022) — met while on University Challenge
35. Jack Gilford (d. 1990) — met at the Tadich Grill in San Francisco
36. Stephen Hawking (d. 2018) — met at an astrophysics convention
37. Banesh Hoffmann (d. 1986) — met at an astrophysics convention
38. John H. Hoffman (d. 2021) — met while at UT Dallas
39. Robert Hoffman (d. 2006) — same school
40. William Hootkins (d. 2005) — same school, same drama group
41. Lane P. Hughston — high school friend
42. Donald Johanos (d. 2007) — was friends with his daughter
43. Tommy Lee Jones — same school, same drama group
44. Bryce Jordan (d. 2016) — met while at UT Dallas
45. Tom Kite — met at a birthday party for his son
46. Polykarp Kusch (d. 1993) — chairman of my doctoral committee
47. John Lehmann (d. 1987) — took a course from him at UT
48. Jack Lemmon (d. 2001) — met at a press conference
49. Alan I. Leshner — sat next to him on an airplane
50. Joyce Currie Little (d. 2023) — neighbor
51. Maggie McIntosh — neighbor
52. Valerie Mahaffey — in my English class at UT
53. Benoit Mandelbrot (d. 2010) — had dinner with him when he spoke at my school
54. Stuart Margolin (d. 2022) — my aunt's nephew
55. Lorenzo Milam (d. 2020) — met while working at the long-defunct KCHU in Dallas
56. Turk Murphy (d. 1987) — met after a performance
57. Edwin Neal — same drama group, later member of same synagogue
58. Tameka Norris — son's art professor
59. Douglas Northcott (d. 2005) — undergraduate professor
60. Levi Olan (d. 1984) — rabbi at our congregation
61. Dean Ornish — same high school, same poker group
62. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (d. 1995) — met in Dallas
63. Rick Perry — sat next to him on a plane
64. Penn & Teller — volunteer from the audience in The Refrigerator Tour
65. Brian Tinsley — colleague
66. Beatrice Tinsley — wife of a colleague
67. J. J. Pickle (d. 2005) — met at a political event
68. David Pines (d. 2018) — related to first wife, also present at my first conference talk
69. George Pólya (d. 1985) — met at a guest lecture at the University of Sheffield
70. Regina Resnik (d. 2013) — met backstage
71. Bill Reeves — met at a conference
72. Patricia Richardson — same drama group
73. Wolfgang Rindler (d. 2019) — on my doctoral committee
74. Ivor Robinson (d. 2016) — my graduate advisor
75. Robert Xavier Rodriguez — met at UT Dallas
76. Barefoot Sanders (d. 2008) — introduced by his daughter, a school friend
77. Allan Shivers (d. 1985) — met at UT Board of Regents meeting
78. Lewis Shiner — same school, same drama group
79. John Silber (d. 2012) — met while at UT
80. Preston Smith (d. 2003) — met at a press conference
81. Stephen Spender (d. 1995) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
82. Roger Staubach — met in the locker room of the Cooper Aerobics Center
83. Annette Strauss (d. 1998) — served with her on a committee
84. Bjarne Stroustrup — met at a conference
85. Jeffrey Swann — same school
86. Edward Teller (d. 2003) — met when he spoke at our school
87. Stephen Tobolowsky — met at high school debate tournaments
88. Andrzej Trautman — met at a conference
89. Alex Trebek (d. 2020) — met while on Jeopardy!
90. Jack Valenti (d. 2007) — interviewed for The Daily Texan
91. Dee Dee Warwick (d. 2008) — met on a tour bus in the Bahamas
92. John Wayne (d. 1979) — had lunch with him at a press conference
93. Trevor White — my son's friend
94. George Whitman (d. 2011) — hung out in his bookstore in Paris in the early seventies
95. Angus G. Wynne (d. 1979) — father's law partner
96. Sheldon Zimmerman — rabbi at our congregation

I've also run into Chinua Achebe, Dan Rather (twice!), Ann Richards, Johnny Mathis and Jason Alexander, but was not introduced. I also feel like I once met Michael Stonebraker, but I can't remember the circumstances.

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