Ultimate top 10 Other leaders Entertainers
1. Nelson Mandela 1. Bill Clinton 1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Mikhail Gorbachev 2. Kim Il Sung 2. Jon Stewart
3. Mohammed Ali 3. Margaret Thatcher 3. Tom Hanks
4. Ted Turner 4. Desmond Tutu 4. Jane Fonda
5. Yasser Arafat 5. Ariel Sharon 5. Elton John
6. Jimmy Carter 6. King Abdullah (Jordan) 6. Oprah Winfrey
7. Fidel Castro 7. Kofi Annan 7. Angelina Jolie
8. King Hussein 8. Hamid Karzai 8. Elizabeth Taylor
9. Bono 9. David Petraeus 9. Laura Linney
10. Hank Aaron 10. George Bush (43) 10. Alicia Keys
I’ll write about some of them (and share photos) in the weeks and months ahead.
Other newmakers I’ve met: Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell, Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark, Richard Holbrooke, Rosalynn Carter, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Andrew Young, Bill Richardson, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin, Boris Yeltin, Jiang Zemin, Kim Dae Jung, Vo Nguyen Giap, F.W. de Klerk, Benazir Bhutto, Bashar Assad, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Queen Noor, Queen Rania, Suha Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert, Yitzhak Shamir, Rafik Hariri, Saad Hariri, Pervez Musharraf, Mohammed Khatami, Mohammad Yunis, Mohammed El Baradei, Lech Walesa, Radovan Karadzic, Tariq Aziz, Uday Saddam Hussein, Ahmed Jibril, Arkan, Sharon Stone, Raquel Welch, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Michael Stipe, Sheryl Crow, Dale Murphy, Phil Niekro.
I intentionally excluded journalists (the list is too long), although I must note it was a thrill to meet Walter Cronkite.
