In reply to Denni:
Lots of 60s/70s/80s mountaineers.
Michael Palin, lovely man.
Terry Jones, funny man
JK Rowling at a party prior to her being famous. Quiet, nice, pretty, wish I'd paid more attention to her...
Alice Roberts, through work. Totally and utterly lovely in every way
Time Team people. Good lot, exactly as on telly.
Muriel Gray, exactly as on telly
Janet Street Porter, great legs, much nicer than she appears on telly
Rebecca Stephenson, up herself
Robin Cook, serious
John Smith, friendly, serious
Chris Smith, friendly, serious
Jack Dee, sold him a pair of Tevas
Catherine Zeta Jones, didn't realise who she was
Tim Slessor, producer of Life on Earth, gave me a lift to Skye
Dan McCafferty and Pete Agnew of Nazareth (most Fifers of my age have met them)
Big John Duncan (Exploited etc, everyone from Edinburgh my age has met him)
Ted Nugent. Arsehole
Nick Crane, lashings of ginger beer etc
Mike Harding, lovely man
Leon Rosselson, see Mike Harding
Isabelle Autissier, awe-inspiring and nice with it
Occasionally share a supermarket queue with Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin but haven't met them as such.
Best of all, Peter O'Toole. He was walking down Hanover Street in Edinburgh and had a horrendous coughing fit. As he got his coughing under control our eyes met, and he said, "Soon be dead, thank God."
The best famous person story I have is of an American friend who hitched to and from the Mull of Kintyre in c.1990. I asked him how the hitching went and he said he'd got a lift out of Campbelltown from "a really cool American woman who lived there. She said she was a photographer and her husband was a musician."