I don't think I've personally met anyone famous, but Pele has eaten dinner with my grandparents/aunts/uncles on a couple of occasions when they lived in Brazil. We have a picture of it in my house, haha. Also, my uncle dated the woman who would be Pele's wife when he was in high school. That's something I guess.

As a scary "close encounter", that same grandpa also babysat the kids of Jim Jones (the guy who started the People's Temple cult - i.e. don't drink the kool-aid). He tried to get my grandpa to join him on his original settlement idea, and my grandpa (thankfully) told him he was crazy and no.