User:JackofOz/Other people

Some people I've actually met ...
... some of whom I wish I hadn't. This is my chance to drop some names and hope that not too many of them are bruised in the fall :

Senate

 * Cleaver Bunton (when he was Mayor of Albury) • Margaret Reynolds • Norm Sanders • Natasha Stott Despoja • Michael Tate

Reps

 * Russell Broadbent • Anna Burke • Peter Cleeland • Manfred Cross • Steve Dargavel • Teresa Gambaro • Peter Garrett • Bob Hawke • Billy Hughes's great-granddaughter • Tony Lamb • Michael Lee • Paul Marek • Peter Morris • Ian Sinclair • Peter Steedman

NSW

 * Morris Iemma • Greg Piper (my brother's brother-in-law) • Michael Yabsley

Vic

 * Jordan Crugnale

Qld

 * Wayne Goss

WA

 * Geoff Gallop

ACT

 * Wayne Berry • Bernard Collaery • Simon Corbell's father • Deb Foskey

NT

 * Shane Stone

Political staffers

 * Louise Hand • Patti Warn
 * I may have met Peter Hendy, but I certainly spoke with him by phone more than a few times. Same applies to Gerard Henderson, Grahame Morris and Barry O'Farrell.

Public servants

 * Lyn Barlin • Martin Bonsey • Dawn Casey • Michael D'Ascenzo • Phil Diak • Paul Dibb • Darcy McGaurr • Prof Michael Pitman • Abul Rizvi • Ray Robinson • George Savvides • Peter Shergold • Richard Smith • Neville Stevens • Mark Sullivan • George Thompson • Phillip Toyne • Ray Trebilco • Richard Woolcott

Judges

 * John Kelly • Michael Kirby

Journalists

 * David Bowman • Michelle Grattan • Bruce Juddery • Gary Scully • Greg Turnbull • Colin Tyrus,, • James Valentine

Public policy makers etc

 * Neil Batt • Tim Costello • Mick Dodson • Ross Garnaut's wife • Roger Holdich • Joseph Lo Bianco • Emeritus Professor David G. Marr • Bob Santamaria's nephew • Wayne Sievers • Robbie Swan

Conductors

 * Antonio de Almeida • Nicholas Braithwaite • Leonard Dommett • Tobias Foskett • Myer Fredman's son • William "Bill" Hawkey • John Hopkins • Sir Charles Mackerras • Sir Neville Marriner • Joseph Post • Ezra Rachlin • Stanford Robinson

Pianists

 * Claudio Arrau • John Chen • Colin Forbes • Judy Hall • Geoffrey Lancaster • Stanislas Niedzielski • Rafael Orozco • Geoffrey Parsons • Ewa Pobłocka • Melvyn Tan • Geoffrey Tozer • Roger Woodward's sister-in-law

Singers

 * Peter Garrett • Eishi Kawamura • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf • Oleh Witer (my son's godmother's brother)

Other

 * Larry Sitsky • Zvi Zeitlin

Sports people

 * Jason Ball • Leigh Brown's mother • Billy Brownless • Jackson Fear • Don Furner • Terry Gathercole • Sam Gilbert • George Gregan • Tom Hickey • Stephen Hodge's step-mother • Stephen Larkham • Mark McLinden • Ricky Stuart • Carl Valeri's parents

Visual arts

 * G. W. Bot • Conrad Clark (artist, sculptor; son of Edward Clark and Elisabeth Lutyens, and grandson of Sir Edwin Lutyens) • Sasha Grishin • Brian Kennedy (gallery director)

Entertainment

 * Nicole Alexander • Basia Bonkowski • Benita Collings • Shane Dundas • Penne Hackforth-Jones's sister • Eddie McGuire • Ray Martin • Michael Pope (producer)

Other

 * Milton Black • Pierre Cardin's second cousin (his brother-in-law's wife was my son's godmother) • Archbishop Francis Carroll • John Clanchy's ex-wife • David Eastman • Terry Gwynn-Jones • Jean Houston • Prof Peter Karmel • Lady Keys • Don Laycock • Malcolm Mackerras • Sir John Overall • Charmaine Solomon • Prof Peter Taylor • Dr Douglas Waterhouse • Charles Waterstreet's mother


 * During his lifetime, I swam in the same swimming pool at the Otters Club in Colombo, Sri Lanka, that Sir Arthur C. Clarke regularly used. For the purposes of utterly shameless name-dropping, I count this as aquataneous extra-biological contact.
 * Although I never met him face to face, I did have some phone conversations with Sir Walter Scott as part of my job. I thought the last one went well, but he chose to make an official complaint against me.  You never can tell.  I also spoke to Franco Belgiorno-Nettis a few times by phone but never came face to face with him.

Some people I wish I'd met but couldn't or didn't or haven't

 * Bruce Chatwin • John Curtin •  Albert Einstein  •  Gerard Hoffnung  •  Martin Luther King Jr.  •  T. E. Lawrence  •  Michael Leunig • Dorothea Mackellar • Nelson Mandela  •  Nicolas Slonimsky  •  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Vincent van Gogh  •  Giuseppe Verdi  •  Orson Welles  •  Gough Whitlam  •  Oscar Wilde