i live in a smaller town and rarely go to a big enough city to see celebrities so no real "brushes with greatness"...
having said that i have seen/met some local people that have made it to the pros (albeit definitely not that big in the pros). they are bill sampen, kevin seitzer, brian cook--grew up 4 houses down from where my family used to live and went to the same grade school, tony semple...
have seen president bush, his wife and the cheney's up close when their train stopped in our town and he spoke for a few minutes while he was campaigning back in 2000...
that's it for me but just recently my parents won a trip to nashville from some national radio show and got to meet trace adkins and josh turner backstage at the grand ol' opry. that same night the also taped some crowd shots for alan jackson's new video so my parents might be in that which would be quite funny to see...