I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about who she would want to meet given the opportunity. She of course, like most people listed off a handful of A, B and C list celebrities. I have put some thought into it since that conversation and realized the only two “celebrities” I would want to meet are Larry David and Steven Wright. I feel like I can really relate to both of their senses of humor. Also if I didn’t know who my real father was, I would assume it was Larry David.

In actuality my list of meets consisted of a bunch of geeks and business moguls. Heres my list, in no particular order…

Larry Page & Sergey Brin - Founders of Google. Enough said.

Zed Shaw - Creator of Mongrel, a web server for Ruby applications. While I’m not a ruby developer (I have dabbled), this guy is the most opinionated stright up guy on the web. He doesn’t sugar coat anything, says it like it is. I think we would have a great time debating geeky topics.

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - This guy pretty much created the world wide web.

Richard Branson - I just want to check out his island, drink some beers and jet ski with this guy.

Markus Frind - Creator of plentyoffish.com. This guy runs one of the largest dating sites on the internet single handed. He makes millions.

Barry Diller - CEO of InterActiveCorp. Ruthless, brilliant business man. Seems to have a knack for picking winners.

John Malone - If I’m going to meet Barry Diller, I dont want John to feel left out.

Paul Buchheit - Creator of gmail… So cool!

Kevin Rose - Creator of digg.com and revision 3, probably has the biggest “geek” fan boy following and definitely knows how to hold his liquor. Might as well throw Jay Adelson in there as well, current CEO of digg, founder of revision 3 and Equinix.

Steve Jobs - Why not, the guy is brilliant. Maybe he will hook me up with a free iphone.

Steve Wozniak - Now we are talking brilliant. More or less created the personal computer.

37 Signals Team - While I don’t agree with all of their practices, these guys are pretty smart and I would love to pick their brains.

Guido van Rossum - Creator of python. I really need to start using it a bit more.

Bill Gates - Needs no introduction.

Gary Dahl - Creator of the pet rock. If this guy can get people to buy a rock for $3.95, he can sell just about anything and I would love to know how.

Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross - Creators of Firefox.

Linus Torvalds - Creator of Linux and the poster boy for hackers everywhere.